Starting from www.flickr.com/photos/elaref/8158442354 - Sepia/Antique look added to increased structure

Instead of the RAF's uniform light grey, the three RC-135 Rivet Joint aircraft will keep their design of a white top, black nose and grey underside (pictured).

Aircraft will plug gap widely seen as existing in British military security after 2010 SDSR scrapped RAF Nimrods

DeHavilland DH-106 Comet drawing The ancestry of all jetiners, it was the first production commercial jetliner. The Comet 1 prototype first flew on 27 July 1949

CT 484. A Nimrod submarine hunter-killer aircraft XV 262 of No 206 Squadron RAF Kinloss in flight over a North Sea oil rig in the early 1970s. During this period the Nimrod fleet patrolled the North Sea protecting British fishing fields and oil fields

Hawker Siddeley Nimrod MR2 @ Elvington XV250