The colour of Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) chief General Affendi Buang’s beret was as bright as the blue of the cloudless sky above the air force base in Shah Alam.

On Wednesday, Affendi spent an afternoon with some 50 media personnel who were taken on board three RMAF helicopters for an aerial tour over the old Sungai Besi RMAF base, with a view of the majestic KLCC in the distance.

Two of the helicopters were RMAF’s Eurocopter EC725s while the third was the older and larger Nuri...