Coffee Coloured Plane*

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I had an issue with my laptop so was unable to post these images, taken on 18th August, on the day.

The main image is an Aermacchi SF-260 from 1968. I've never seen or photographed one of these before. It's an Italian light aircraft that has been marketed as a military trainer and for aerobatics and is in the colours of the Burkina Faso Air Force. While being a fully aerobatic aircraft, it possesses favourable handling qualities, including relatively tame stall characteristics. Controllability during stalls is augmented by vanes located on the wing tip tanks which accelerate airflow over the tips and ailerons.

The Partenavia P68 Observer survey aircraft, top left, from Liverpool, went back and forth over here many times today.

Top middle is a Best Off Skyranger 912(2) microlight and top right a Spitfire from 1943 converted to double canopy and operated by Warbird Experiences.

*I wondered what macchi meant, it sounds like caffè macchiato, which translates as stained coffee. So the plane is an air stain?