THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Wednesday, May 1, 1996                 TAG: 9605010516
SECTION: LOCAL                    PAGE: B3   EDITION: FINAL 
                                             LENGTH: Short :   23 lines

RAF OPERATES OUT OF OCEANA

LAWRENCE JACKSON/The Virginian-Pilot

More than 60 planes of the Royal Air Force are taking part in joint

exercises with United States military forces in North Carolina and

off the East Coast. Above, a crewman walks Tuesday on the tarmac at

Oceana Naval Air Station under the wing of an RAF Nimrod, the

world's first land-based all-jet maritime reconaissance and

anti-submarine aircraft. Below, crew members walk away from the

RAF's Tornado GR1B, a strike/attack aircraft configured for

anti-shipping duties with a long-range, sea-skimming Sea Eagle

radar-guided missile.

by CNB