RAF: John Spellar MP opens Airshow

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M2 PRESSWIRE-21 July 1998-RAF: John Spellar MP opens Airshow (C)1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:200798 Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Ministry of Defence, Mr John Spellar MP, will fly into RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire, aboard a Gulfstream V aircraft to launch the Royal International Air Tattoo on Thursday 23 July.

Public days for the airshow are Saturday/Sunday 25/26 July, and spectators will see a record 446 aircraft from around the world. The Tattoo will stage Britain's biggest celebrations for 80 years of the Royal Air, Force and the 50th Anniversary Of the Berlin Airlift. Mr Speller will meet 98 year-old Philip Bristow of Burbage in Wiltshire, a Great War pilot, together with veterans of the Berlin Airlift. Air Marshal Sir John Curtiss was...