Operating out of Payerne on a wet day.

The Swiss Fokker D-VII were registered 625 to 639. The fuselage and engine of this D.VII are original. The fuselage is from an unbuilt license D-VII by firm Alfred Comte, Oberrieden (CH)

The Morane-Saulnier MS.412, produced only in Switzerland as the D-3801, was an uprated version of France's workmanlike MS.406 fighter.

Bad weather landing in Meiringen.

36 Mirage IIIS interceptors were built in Switzerland with strengthened airframes, the Swiss AF requiring integrity of carrier-based aircraft standards, allowing crane lifting in the mountain cavern hangars and JATO take-offs. The surviving 30 were withdrawn in 1999, by then in grey camouflage, and this one was stored at Buochs-Ennetbü, although the cockpit section is now preserved in Oslo

Rather un-Swiss, the battered condition of this Venom. Note the centrifugal-flow Ghost engine below which fits in its stubby fuselage.

First flown in 1951, the Arbalète (Crossbow) was a scaled-down aerodynamic prototype for the projected N-20 Aiguillon jet fighter. Powered by four tiny Turboméca turbojets, the Arbalète achieved 750 km/h (466 mph). One of the lower engines is just visible under the wing.

This was the prototype of the first Swiss built jet aircraft though it never went into production and it was the sole example built. It first flew in November 1951 and is seen in the Swiss Transport Museum