Tupolev Tu-204

All the various airliners, Ilyushins, Tupolevs, Antonovs, etc., a few helicopters, they would take part in the flying display.

And there would also be... astonishingly pleasure flights offered um actually this only mentions uh the pleasure flights on the air choreo fleet as it would later transpire some of the air force planes were available for pleasure flights as well which was extraordinary but this this was advertised generated a lot of interest unsurprisingly um At the time, I was like, do you know what? I've been looking at this for a while.

I want to go.

It's of interest to me.

the night before we get given all of our visas and paperwork from the tour group, you know, for our entry stuff to Pyongyang, to North Korea, and got given sort of, don't do this, don't do that, show respect to the leaders, don't mock anyone, don't do anything, you know, overtly religious, et cetera, et cetera.

Lots of weird rules and they'll get weirder as you'll find out.

The next morning, we wake up, drive to Beijing International Airport, and we get our air choreo, Tupolev 214, 214 or 204? One of them, the 757 proxy.

And on screen right now for these guys is a picture of that beautiful cheat line down the side.