Originally Posted by ATSA1
(Post 11117589)
Reading this thread, it seems that the F2 and F3 were not really fit for purpose as Medium to High level Interceptors...
or am i missing something? |
All good stuff, but how capable was the airframe to get the missiles into suitable envelopes to fire?
I heard at the time that when the MiG29s first visted Farnborough in 1988, the F3 escorts struggled to keep up with them! |
No they didn't!
I flew the VC10K with the press party (AP, ITV, BBC, TASS, AvWeek, Flight etc.) on that trip; one problem was that the F3 outfit had an extra jet which they positioned between the VC10K and the MiG 29s, which was an infernal nuisance. After we met them over the North Sea, all went fine until the descent through the Daventry sector, when ATC weren't very helpful. We had to leave the formation and rejoin below cloud, by which time the F3s were doing their own thing contrary to the brief. But the journos got their shots for rhe magazines and the video went out on the evening news! |
ExAscoteer2
Did the F3 have the capability of an unrefuelled transatlntic crossing? A Tornado F3, ZE155, flew unrefuelled in ferry fit non-stop across the Atlantic from Goose Bay to Warton on 24 Sep 1987. It was the first RAF fighter aircraft to do so without air-to-air refuelling. The flight took 4 hours 45 minutes. |
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