Tornado breaking the sound barrier pics...
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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!
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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.
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.
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Aaaah Frodo,
Would they have been taken during a 5 week playtime somewhere 'very' south?
Have a few choice shots of my own from HMP MPA
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)
Would they have been taken during a 5 week playtime somewhere 'very' south?
Have a few choice shots of my own from HMP MPA
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)
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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!
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!
