Tornado breaking the sound barrier pics...

[DKP1]

does anyone have any or know where on the web i can get some??

Many thanks!

[Tombstone]

Evening,

what exactly are you expecting to see on any such photos? A Tornado punching a huge hole in the sound barrier??

Look for some shots of a clean fit Tonka (probably an F3), flying at medium alt, fully swept with reheat selected & you may well be looking at a supersonic Tornado. :)

[Pontius Navigator]

A google image search for supersonic tornado turned up this:

http://www.wernerbudack.de/SkyBusters/images/Tornado%20(SB-22A)_07.jpg

[BEagle]

Years ago when doing some Bear-chasing in one of HM's Vickers FunBus tankers, I asked the accompanying Tornado mate to go past 'fast and swept'....for a photo.

He duly obliged, we felt the bang and I still have the 'Bat out of Hell' photo somewhere. But on a 35mm slide - haven't got the technology to turn it into a .jpg. Shall try to do so when I get back from my current trip.

[tradewind]

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.sweb.cz/seifrob/galerie/4098/tornado_2.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.sweb.cz/seifrob/galerie/4098/gallery.htm&h=240&w=180&sz=8&hl=en&start=1&tbnid=5lvaRs8hCUn5dM:&tbnh=110&tbnw=83&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmach%2B1%2Btornado%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr% 3D%26sa%3DN
Scroll down to the bottom of the page

[caligula]

www.sky-flash.com

Check out the high speed section

[Flarkey]

Have a butchers
here (http://www.sky-flash.com/tornado4.htm).

[Navaleye]

I thought they only had a "low and slow" capability :uhoh:

[Tombstone]

No mate, that was the SHAR...

[foldingwings]

A bit of 'steam' around the fuselage/wings don't make it supersonic! You could do that in a Bucc!

[antipodean alligator]

You've probably got more chance of finding a current Photo of Osama Bin Lid pointing at a map with his hideout Lat Long on it!

[frodo_monkey]

Navaleye,
Can a SHAR do M2.0?









Bueller?:}

Basic fastology!:E

PS I have some waaaay supersonic pics, but they're a bit sporty for publication here!

[Tombstone]

I was chased down big time by an F16 during Maple Flag a few years ago, I was flat out & could do nothing but take a quick, admiring glance at him as he overshot on the right with a massive overtake, pulled up carried on hunting. F16s, they're bloody fast if nothing else!

[CBA_caption]

I can get you lots of pictures of Tornado breaking ... and broken!

CBA

[frodo_monkey]

Tombstone,

Please tell me you're a GR mate...

The F3 is one of the only things that can keep up with a B1 at low level!:eek:

[The Helpful Stacker]

I believe Tombstone is an inmate of that flat place in Norfolk.

No doubt out at Red Flag he was carrying a bit more weight (on the a/c, I've no idea how much weight he carries) than the average F3 hauls around.

[Fox2long]

HS The biggest unusable weight he was carrying was behind him!!!!:)

[The Rocket]

Aaaah Frodo,
Would they have been taken during a 5 week playtime somewhere 'very' south?:E

Have a few choice shots of my own from HMP MPA:cool:

Thanks to the engines inherited from the GR Tonka, the F3 holds the magnificent title of being the fastest fighter in the world (at sea level)

[Tombstone]

Frodo,

If you ever do get to Mach 2.0, for Christ's sake don't launch a Sky Slug, you'll shoot yourself down as you overtake it! ;)

I've been chased down by F3 mates in OTA E (still think of it as C!) more than once. Doesn't happen too much these days now that they seem to insist on strapping a pair of tanks to your wings, tends to even the playing field!

Always nice having a pair of F15s escorting you, watching them head off to the east like dogs off a leash. 9 times out of ten they're off chasing something completely irrelevant, whilst the threat screams in from the west! They don't call themselves 'Deadly, Slammer & Killer' for nothing! :ugh:

[Shot to the Beach]

Great as those F3 pics are on skyflash.com, I can gaurantee we weren't supersonic! That would've been illegal and we would've got into an awful lot of trouble!

[antipodean alligator]

:rolleyes: Rocket,
I can remember being challenged to a race by the 5(AC) SQN Fag Charioteers at Cope Thunder 97.
It never eventuated because they wanted to limit it to 10 miles. The chariot may be quick off the blocks but she's got nothing compared to the -111 over any decent distance.
When you have to decellerate at the IP to meet your M1.2 max employment speed, then you are in a fast fighter at sea level!

[DKP1]

THanks for the pics... made me laugh espescially the lego!!

need some pics similar to the f14 ones with the shockwave forming across the wings and around the cockpit.....

[antipodean alligator]

Rob from Brissy.

It is not us you are hearing. BTW we do not fly lights off in civvy airspace nor do we cross that airspace not talking to ATC.

It is probably DHL or someone like that. We, like you, are tucked up in bed by that time of the morning!

[The Rocket]

Not my personal opinion AA, merely a statement of fact ;)

So lets sum up.

You were challenged to a race :ok:
You only wanted to play if the conditions suited you :(
You ducked out of the race :{
You take this to mean you won. :confused:

Dear me!!!

Ps: Was this race to be at Aussie low level, or British low level? ;)

:p :p :p :ok:

[foldingwings]

:rolleyes: Rocket,
I can remember being challenged to a race by the 5(AC) SQN Fag Charioteers at Cope Thunder 97.
It never eventuated because they wanted to limit it to 10 miles. The chariot may be quick off the blocks but she's got nothing compared to the -111 over any decent distance.
When you have to decellerate at the IP to meet your M1.2 max employment speed, then you are in a fast fighter at sea level!
Forgive me, AA, but in English we say: happened
FW

[antipodean alligator]

Forgive me, AA, but in English we say: happened
FW

Indeed you may. In the Queen's Australian, folding and wings are two separate words!

As for M'sieu Rocket:
I have never assumed victory, although the Fox 2 kill my driver & I took on one that same Det could be taken as proof that they couldn't out-run us!

It was clear from the example set by the 47 SQN Alberts that there were differing definitions of Low Level.

BTW - Nice use of Icons!:ok:

[foldingwings]

But in a proper noun (ie. a name) then folding and wings can quite happily go together (and always did!)

foldingwings

[navibrator]

I thought they only had a "low and slow" capability :uhoh:

No- that's called a Harrier!

[navibrator]

Evening,

what exactly are you expecting to see on any such photos? A Tornado punching a huge hole in the sound barrier??

Look for some shots of a clean fit Tonka (probably an F3), flying at medium alt, fully swept with reheat selected & you may well be looking at a supersonic Tornado. :)

It doesn't need to be clean! Tanks fitted doesn't stop an F3 going supersonic!

[navibrator]

Navaleye,
Can a SHAR do M2.0?
Bueller?:}
Basic fastology!:E
PS I have some waaaay supersonic pics, but they're a bit sporty for publication here!

Could (past tense) a SHAR do Mach 1!

[navibrator]

Tombstone,
Please tell me you're a GR mate...
The F3 is one of the only things that can keep up with a B1 at low level!:eek:
Yep - been there!

[The Helpful Stacker]

Could (past tense) a SHAR do Mach 1!

Only if pushed off a very big cliff.

[Tombstone]

It doesn't need to be clean! Tanks fitted doesn't stop an F3 going supersonic!

I appreciate that, being a proper Tonka mate however, it's a lot easier on the old airframe if you leave the petrol cans in the garage old chap!

That said, I accept that the F3 mates have a great deal more knowledge about supersonic flight than us mud movers... Running away bravely requires great speed! ;)

[The Rocket]

That's fighting talk where I come from Tombstone!!! :E


(insert your own joke about running away, here!)

:p :p :p :p