Manchester Monday 3 1st December 2025.

One of the most bizarre display teams I've ever seen
F-GDPX, Max Holste MH.1521C-1 Broussard and Colomban MC-15 Cri-Cri in the colours of their sponsor, Brittany Ferries.
What was so bizarre about these?
The, erm, "formation" take off.
See that metal frame sticking out in front of the wing of the bigger plane, just in front of the cockpit windows?
That was to support the nose wheel of the smaller plane on take off.
The Cri-Cri was mounted on top of the much larger Broussard, only separating from the mother ship part way through the display.
An interesting note - the Cri-Cri is (or at least, was) the worlds smallest twin-engined plane, powered by chain-saw engines!

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F-GDPX, Max Holste MH-1521M Broussard, and F-PZTU, Colomban MC-15E Cri-Cri, in the colours of Brittany Ferries, their sponsor, taking off in a VERY close formation ĥfor a flying display at the Woodford Air Show, some time in the 1990s.

LX-DCV, Boeing 747-228F, Atlas Air, in basic Cargolux colours, at a rather misty Amsterdam Schipol, 27th September 1996.

OO-DWE, British Aerospace Avro RJ100, Brussels Airlines, taxiing past the AVP after landing on Runway 23R at Manchester Airport, 27th September 2013.

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