Photo of the day From the Stripes archives

April 5, 2010

Red Grandy ©Stars and Stripes

England, June, 1959: An F6 Hawker Hunter jet from the Royal Air Force's "Black Arrows" acrobatic team gets a cleaning at RAF Station Wattisham. The maneuvers of the pilots from 111 Squadron ("Treble One"), who performed about 50 shows around Europe during the summer, were described by a French newspaper as "celestial geometry."