Tornado final weeks info

[clio197]

There has been 2 up today so far...

[Pat Murphy]

ZG775 Marham 09 pd to Liverpool again and over the house...again
ZA587 Narham 42 also up nearer to base....

[Blackcat1]

All in the Marham Ops thread in the heads up section.

[Peter345]

No access will be granted to the farmer's fields for the last flights according to the station boss on twitter.

[judgie1310]

Slightly longer if you take into account the official RAF Out of Service date is 31st March

Pretty sure the Station Commander confirmed the last Tornado flight is on 14th March. Could be wrong though, wouldn’t be the first time!

This was confirmed earlier by the Marham Media Team on Twitter this morning.

[MiG_Eater]

Will any of the remaining flyers be flying to their final destinations (ie: to become museum exhibits)?

[chrism8]

Unlikely, earlier in this thread it states all movements after the 14th will be by road I believe.

[MiG_Eater]

Sorry my question was meant to be referring to movements before the 14th. Are any museums getting any?

[LN Strike Eagle]

Looks like the camo jet is due to fly today, going by pics on social media from the enthusiast day. Hopefully it'll fly again next week?

Anyone know why it hasn't flown on day-to-day ops like the two special tails?

[markranger]

Looks like the camo jet is due to fly today, going by pics on social media from the enthusiast day. Hopefully it'll fly again next week?

Anyone know why it hasn't flown on day-to-day ops like the two special tails?

Possibly because it is a Trainer and not a Strike jet like the other 2 so other than currency Check rides its not required.Same as the Marham 100th Tail jet

[slogen51]

Looks like the camo jet is due to fly today, going by pics on social media from the enthusiast day. Hopefully it'll fly again next week?

Anyone know why it hasn't flown on day-to-day ops like the two special tails?

14:35 , ZG752 airborne as Marham 74

[LN Strike Eagle]

Yah. Enthusiasts day. Had hoped to be there, but the weather isn't ideal and I'm still not mobile after last week's accident.

Maybe there will be one last chance next week?

[Gary]

Sadly Dan, according to a couple of mates who were at the enthusiast day, ZG752 flew for the last time today

Also mentioned, only one more flight left for the whole fleet

[Gary]

One final flight confirmed on Twitter by the station commander for the Tornados

The FINal flight of Tornado takes place on Thurs 14 March with a flypast over the Disbandment Parade (early PM). The sortie will take place solely overhead Marham. There are no further sorties planned next week. @RAFMarhamMedia https://t.co/QnXkCIGaUJ

[Viper28]

One final flight confirmed on Twitter by the station commander for the Tornados

The FINal flight of Tornado takes place on Thurs 14 March with a flypast over the Disbandment Parade (early PM). The sortie will take place solely overhead Marham. There are no further sorties planned next week. @RAFMarhamMedia https://t.co/QnXkCIGaUJ

That is unfortunately 100% correct. It was in fact the last flight of any of the three special tails. On the 14th they will be "on parade". The flypast will be a single GR4, a standard grey one is slotted with the Marham Cenntury jet as the reserve.

[harvo266]

One final flight confirmed on Twitter by the station commander for the Tornados

The FINal flight of Tornado takes place on Thurs 14 March with a flypast over the Disbandment Parade (early PM). The sortie will take place solely overhead Marham. There are no further sorties planned next week. @RAFMarhamMedia https://t.co/QnXkCIGaUJ

That is unfortunately 100% correct. It was in fact the last flight of any of the three special tails. On the 14th they will be "on parade". The flypast will be a single GR4, a standard grey one is slotted with the Marham Cenntury jet as the reserve.

Has anyone found out if it is just a single, straight and level pass or if it will be something exciting i.e. some fast passes etc?

[Mark_Aviation]

One final flight confirmed on Twitter by the station commander for the Tornados

That is unfortunately 100% correct. It was in fact the last flight of any of the three special tails. On the 14th they will be "on parade". The flypast will be a single GR4, a standard grey one is slotted with the Marham Cenntury jet as the reserve.

Has anyone found out if it is just a single, straight and level pass or if it will be something exciting i.e. some fast passes etc?

Judging by the ‘practice’ they done at the enthusiast day, it’ll be 3 or 4 high passes, at medium speed with different wing configs. Being the last flight though, you never know they might do something special...

[Gary]

Being an official disbandment parade, I'd be surprised if it's more than a single pass. As it's the last flight of the Tornados they might do it different though

[Unknown74]

So would I be right in thinking that there won't be any flying Tornados for the disbandment at the end of the Month? This week (Wednesday is it?) is the Tornado Farewell and the end of RAF Service with Squadron Ground Personnel disbanding at Months End?

[Vulcanone]

The Sqns disband on Thursday hence the disbandment flypast.

As re-copied from above

https://twitter.com/StnCdrRAFMarham/sta ... 68/photo/1


And despite the fact that the official Out of Service date is the end of the month they not fly anymore after Thursday - The end