The Roll-Out ceremony of the FA-71 '31 TIGER' took place on friday, June 12th, 1998. The painting scheme was designed by Johan Wolfs, who also painted the previous Tiger aircraft in 1991 and 1994. He was assisted by Peter Verheyen and the Kleine Brogel Paint-shop. The aircraft was flown for the first time by flight Cdt. Mich Kerkhofs on that rainy friday. [BAF photo]
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on 2003-Jul-17 17:18:06 Anonymous said Stefaan
On thuesday, June 16th, the Tigerjet was about to depart to Lechfeld for the 1998 Tigermeet, but during the start-up sequence major technical problems occured and the aircraft was grounded for some days until the necessary repairs where done. However, maintenance crews in Kleine Brogel worked very hard to get the aircraft flying again (some 16 hours is told)... and on thursday morning final tests proved to be succesfull... \'Then the aircraft still had to be flown to Lechfeld... so the Base Commander at that time, Col. Vl Marcel Van der Auwera made the flight to Lechfeld, presenting the aircraft to the other resident Tigersquadrons. Col. M. Van der Auwera has been a Tiger himself some years ago, (and once a Tiger always a Tiger) flying the F-104G and later the F-16A, therefore it was no surprise that he had the honour of flying the aircraft to Lechfeld.
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