Tornado GR1/GR1A,GR4/GR4A Thread

[hoppie]

Found a few more gap fillers lurking in the 'to scan' pile -

ZA610 in 27 Sqdn marks at Mildenhall, June 1984

ZA610_MH_100684 by hoppieno3, on Flickr

ZD791 in 17sqdn marks at Valley, August 1985

ZD791_MH_170885 by hoppieno3, on Flickr

Factory fresh ZD894 at St.Athan, September 1985

ZD894_MH_140985 by hoppieno3, on Flickr

Cheers

Mike

[nimrod 68]

good to see the mix of squadron badges and the glorious cammo make the most of now these boys arenot too long away from vanishing too that will be a sad loss to us spotters long live the tonado gr

[Maurits37]

Hi Mike,

Thanks for your nice additions..

[EGDR]

ZA598 at Culdrose Air Day, cannot believe I did not realise that I had see this aircraft at Newquay earlier in the month as well!


100_1269 by kylegreetaviation, on Flickr

[wizzair]

Thanks for this Folks, loving the nostalgia. Being very sad I sat down with my navigator's log book last night and discovered that I have flown in 122 of the aircraft listed in the original post, although that includes ZA565 which seems to be missing. During the course at Cottesmore I also flew in 2 Italian and 8 German jets.

132 different GR1/1As, I had no idea.

WiZ

[Mike]

Thanks for this Folks, loving the nostalgia. Being very sad I sat down with my navigator's log book last night and discovered that I have flown in 122 of the aircraft listed in the original post, although that includes ZA565 which seems to be missing. During the course at Cottesmore I also flew in 2 Italian and 8 German jets.

132 different GR1/1As, I had no idea.

WiZ

That's a very impressive amount of different aircraft Wiz.

The serial ZA565 was never allocated, the ZA5** Tornados were ZA540-564 and ZA585-614. More info here:- http://www.ukserials.com/

[wizzair]

Make that 131 then, spoilsport

It only appears once, my third trip at TWCU 14 Jan 1983, I wonder which number I mangled to get that?

I'm not alone, however, if you Google it you can find at least 2 people who think they've got photos of it.

Thanks Mike.

WiZ

[Mike]

Make that 131 then, spoilsport

It only appears once, my third trip at TWCU 14 Jan 1983, I wonder which number I mangled to get that?

I'm not alone, however, if you Google it you can find at least 2 people who think they've got photos of it.

Thanks Mike.

WiZ

Possibly ZA365 or '585 maybe?

[Maurits37]

Hi WiZ,

Maybe you want to see some more shots of other "missing" a/c not listed here..;-)

ZA545 or 595 could also possible btw.....

[jetnoise]

This one is going back a bit - Alconbury, 14th August ,1982 - ZA590, at the time E of 9 Sqn.
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[Maurits37]

Nice shot!

[jetnoise]

Hi all - Managed to find another lurking in my back catalogue -

ZA555 of the TWCU at Mildenhall on 30-May-82

[wizzair]

Ah, dear old State Express, good to see her again.

WiZ

[Mo]

ZA491/JN of 27 Sqn while deployed to RAF St.Mawgan in 1993 for Exercise `Ample Train.'
Cheers!

[Mo]

Hope this one counts as it's only 4 years old.
ZG773 shot at low level in June 2009.
Cheers.


2291 BAe Warton GR.4 down low by Morley Lester (Aviation), on Flickr

[BMrider]

ZG710 At RAF Mildenhall 1990, Tornado GR4A ZG710, which was shot down during Operation TELIC by a US Patriot battery on 22 March 2003.

The Saint ZA591 behind. ( Special markings commemorating the 75th anniversary of 16 Squadron)


Tornado GR4A ZG710 by BMrider2012 1/4 Million views! Thankyou :-), on Flickr

[Maurits37]

Nice additions gents!

[fone0six]

Four TTTE Aircraft:-
ZA323_B-14_RAF Cottesmore_20JUN95


ZA324_B-02_RAF Cottesmore_AUG93




ZA325_B-03_RAF Cottesmore_24APR90 - this angle not possible in the Harrier years, Engine test house in the way!




ZA327_B-51_North Weald_13MAY95



More to follow.

Pat

[Vulcanone]

Hi donaldson1

The Tornado in your you tube video is ZA402 which is now at Leeming for RTP

Tim S

[rtv]

Here's ZA611 from fairly recently.