Sometimes in the life of a globetrotting Flight International scribbler you can forget what country you are in. Not so for our colleague who attended the roll-out of Pilatus's first jet, the PC-24. The firm's Stans location, in an Alpine valley, is as chocolate-box Swiss as you can get. For the ceremony itself, guests were treated to yodelling and alpenhorns as the aircraft was pulled in by horses, before chairman Oscar Schwenk appeared in traditional costume - complete with edelweiss-decorated traditional shirt. The only thing missing was a giant cowbell round the nose of the jet.
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