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Old 5th Aug 2008, 09:24
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In the Tornado (Both F3 and GR4) the wings are moved manually. There was an automatic system fitted to both types, but it was never certified for use and is switched off. The wing sweep lever, is just next to the throttles (left side) and works in the natural sense, ie: forward= wings forward and back= wings back. the wings can be swept to any postion, but normally used in 25(forward) 45 (1/2) or 63/67(back). F14 Tomcat was fully automatic. Don't know about F111. Flogger, is manual, and mostly rubbish! (But can be controlled by 'Mind Control', but only in Russian)

Hope this helped.

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