RAF Tornado GR1 - Recruitment Video - IX Squadron Training Flight

[@CTFlyer7]

The most amazing thing about these old UK videos is that they've managed to make the interior of every building look just as grey as the sky outside!

[@edwardpoppy]

CTFlyer7 No, it really was like that at Marham haha

[@jongiant]

We're painting a our doors grey at West Raynham Control Tower, because you should.😀

[@hackdaniels7253]

Apart from random covers on the easy chairs...

[@allandavis8201]

That’s because that was/is how they were/are painted, it was so depressing, nearly as bad as magnolia. 😂👍😀🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦

[@markspooner16]

@@edwardpoppy but this was filmed at Honington !!!

[@Scalextric22]

Many thanks for sharing the full version of this! I have fond memories of being shown this at school by a RAF careers officer when I was in the Air Cadets in the 80s and dreaming of being a Tornado pilot (I have had the music to this vid buzzing in my head for the last 20 years or so!). Sadly, my actual fast jet career involves flying Falcon4 Allied Force on my PC, but I can still dream!

[@a320nick]

@Scalextric22 Why not visit a cool flying club near you....? You can ask them about doing a PPL or a Trial Flying lesson, where you get to fly the aircraft for about 30 mins or more. Sometimes a pilot will take you up with them. I enjoyed Microsoft Flite SIM very realistic to real world!! I flew all the types that I flew in the real world on flite SIM and more😎👍

[@military_nerd1]

I’m hoping to fly the euro fighter typhoon which replaced the tornado

[@VideoUser3053]

I was a developer on F4:AF - wrote the manual, did the intro video and textured the weapons. Happy days.

[@nigelbryant2672]

Space cadets.

[@SimDeck]

@@military_nerd1 How did you get on?

[@philiphigh1076]

Boy, this takes me back. I did my first tour as a nav on IX Sqn at Bruggen, 1990-1993. Some of those featured were still on the squadron then. Very happy days in Germany. Thanks for posting!

[@1903chrisholden]

How many flight hours good sir

[@1903chrisholden]

Are you Willing to talk about your time over email?

[@rhurbstafalcon4807]

Where do you hail from .?

[@rhurbstafalcon4807]

I myself belong to the High clan

[@dryflyman7121]

You may have known my Stepson Rob ‘Mac’ McKewan , although he could have been a bit later than 1993. He was ground crew - leading air-craftsman technician on tornadoes. He started on Phantoms. I seem to remember he spent some time at Marham and another - possibly Coltishall?? He’s out now, lives in Holland.

[@Biggles27]

Superb stuff.Thanks for uploading. As an ATC cadet in the mid eighties the Tornado was like something from the future. We had an ex cadet come and give us a 2 hour talk on the Navigators role, he himself a Tornado 'Nav'. As kids we were just being introduced to Vic 20s, Sinclair Spectrums etc and thought nothing about this vital data being put on tape.

[@SM-dt1pr]

I was a Space Cadet in the 80s, and can confirm. A mate's dad was an engineering officer on Tornados, and we got shown round one day - remember having a go on that navigation computer, with the map table, and loading all the autopilot data onto a cassette.

[@BrySkye]

The F3 did. The Cockpit Voice Recorder was a two-track tape recorder to provide an audio log of the flight and could also be used for Rapid Data Entry like in the GR1. As I understand it, both were capable of playing music too, which was sometimes done on long ferry flights, much like in the movie Iron Eagle. The F-117 used data cassettes as well. I don't know if the RDE facilities were overhauled or modified as part of the GR4 Mid-Life Update.

[@forsdykemontague1017]

Indeed, I picked up a number of Albums inadvertently left in the CVR 😂

[@Arcturan]

RIP Tornado..March, 2019...end of service. I am ex RAF Cottesmore TTTE, 1983.

[@Flanker751]

Rip Tornado sta cippa! In Italy we fly again

[@allandavis8201]

My deepest sympathies, plank trash was boredom, you know the truth, 4 screws always better than two blow jobs. And yes I did do Tonka Toys along with Fat Alberts, Wokas, Puma, and a few others. 79-03 Rigger.

[@TheAutisticAngler]

I was at Cottesmore 1980-1984 in the ESC, you

[@averageaviationgeek9318]

*Tea drinking intensifies*

[@bestcity0979]

SHLRRRRRRREPPPPPOP

[@BrySkye]

Absolutely. It was the real core of the Tornado's capabilities. Day or night and in all weathers.

[@gtinteractive1012]

RAF, cup of tea and a squad dog, this is real TopGun 😂

[@jimm3379]

The best of British 😂

[@johnnydiamondsmusic1673]

As a civi I used to supply the spares for Tornadoes and all the other aircraft. I used to deliver spares and complete systems to the ESGs on most of the flying stations from 30MU RAF Sealand. Very proud to do my very little bit. I used to find it fascinating watching the technicians in our workshops repairing and maintaining all the various flight systems. A lot of people behind the scenes to enable those pilots to do their jobs.

[@_Matsimus_]

Old school and still going strong! Good girl!

[@Geobiery]

+Matsimus Gaming Yeah man crazy seeing you here

[@_Matsimus_]

haha seeing me here?

[@SPiderman-rh2zk]

The old school Tornado was a lot meaner. They were faster and were flown 'harder' especially in 1991 in the Gulf. The Tornado had variable intake ramps, which were wired shut which limited the air going into the engine - The Tornado was best at low level but we had to change tactics after the opening of hostilities in January 91 - to medium level which the Tornado was never designed for. It also had no laser designator of its own so the venerable Buccaneers designated for them (The GR4 obviously has one now, and had to designate for Libya sorties for... the Typhoon! Still going strong indeed. Love your videos by the way!

[@rollsroycegriffon2375]

Why Am I always seeing Matsimus on every videos as same as this? Quite crazy for me, actually.

[@James-sh8mu]

I love how rugged it is

[@kenstevens5065]

I spent a lot of time at the Lincolnshire ranges late 80's early 90's, Jaguar and Tornado. What was amazing was the accuracy of the bombing and the fact you could see so many aircraft. Nowadays I'm told you can sit all day and see nothing. I do worry about the numbers in our armed forces nowadays. No matter how hi tech an aircraft it can't be in two places at once.

[@ainsleystones4600]

I love everything about this. I always wanted a job in the RAF flying Tonkas, but became distracted by guitars and girls. Oh well. Thanks for posting! ❤

[@Dr_McKay]

"Go wind the computers up". Im assuming he meant that literally back then?

[@MrJimbaloid]

If the computers that we had at KINLOSS back in the 90's were anything to go by then yes you did wind them up.

[@JoakimFritz]

"Allright, Pete, put on your training kit get on the hamster wheel. We have some numbers to crunch."

[@comedywriter8408]

1.37 Back in days when a comb over, was still ridiculed. Lol

[@KumaBean]

He meant it figuratively, 'wind it up' can be used in place of 'spin it up', he didn't mean literally as in winding up a radio or a torch. The tech back then was primitive, for sure, but they had electricity, lol. Even today in laptops and PC's there's a spinning hard-drive, when you hear the computer start on power-up, that's the disk winding up to load data. PS, I love how they load the mission data into the aircraft with an old cassette, I remember the days of trying to load games the same way 😂

[@hoilst]

@@MrJimbaloid I'm actually hoping there was a crank handle out the side that played a music-box version of "Pop Goes The Weasel" as you did that.

[@Jamesrx8]

Remember watching my dad's VHS copy of this video when I was little! He was in the film - Sqn Ldr Robbie Hamilton

[@BrySkye]

It's a data cassette that contains just about everything you can imagine in terms of mission planning. At 6:30 you can see one of the air crew moving a cursor over a map and pressing a button, which enters the location onto a computer. The data is then downloaded from the computer onto the data cassette tape for use in the aircraft. The Tornado was a product of the 1970's, and a cassette was a pretty efficient means of basic data storage, being before the creation of 3½-inch floppy disks.

[@Glee73]

computers of the era, also used cassette tapes as storage and well into the 80s.

[@curryattack8985]

This popped into my playlist today! BLOODY EXCELLENT!! Just think, this vid was made less than 40 years after ww2. Most crewrooms in the RAF still look like this, but the combovers are gone. The preflight brief is still the same, the only difference is that ppt has replaced overhead projectors. I was using less sophisticated planning equipment well into the 2000’s!!!

[@mondeo2500]

Superb vid, takes me back to my 14 years working on them Thanks

[@Hewster]

Brilliant. We used to watch this at RAF Leeming 11aef when the weather was too bad to fly. Class.

[@davidedgecombe3788]

This film is on the BFI COI Collection DVD They Stand Ready.Music was composed by Christopher Gunning who has composed a lot for TV, advertising and film.

[@Robert-nz2qw]

Haha, I recognise so many shots that were used for the DOS game Tornado from this film, not the least the cover image. So now I know where they got a lot of their data from :)

[@Akm72]

I used to work with one of the guys who made that game. :)

[@rahulsengupta5484]

love the mission map and way point planning part ,, interestingly magnetic tapes were used to transfer the way point coordinates data on to the aircraft computer .

[@TheFatNumpty]

Fascinating! Takes me back to my days as an Air Cadet in the early nineties when this baby was very much the bit of kit to be flying though after you saw one roar past you didnt need any videos to convince you of that! I would have loved to have taken part in that story, the video was so very much like the dreams I had all those years ago of joining the RAF and doing that every day, great memories! The music fits perfectly with the era, almost Krypton-Factor esque. Thanks for posting!

[@SuperPeaking]

Great video ! Makes me feel old ! I had posters all over my bedroom of Tornados, and now my son has posters of the Typhoon :)

[@richardjonsson1745]

Love the music and the comb-overs!

[@glo41f]

Thanks for this. I was attached to the squadron about the time that this was made. i recognise several faces not least being the GLO and the Squadron Boss who was a good type. They were at Honnighton at the time which was a good station. I left them when they went to Bruggen.

[@fouba2]

It's cool that they used Cassette tape players as a memory device in the 80's. by the way it was a very good video you uploaded Thank you very much. I liked the Tornado very much when I was a little kid but in recent years I have to say that according to my taste, the Harrier GR3 from the same era is a very beautiful aircraft. It's a pity that in Sweden we did not use them. It would be very fun to see them in the sky. I've only had the honor of seeing a Harrier GR7 on a flight show here in Sweden but never a GR3

[@KumaBean]

I clocked that too, I was like 'damn Son!?!' 😂

[@Cdr_Mansfield_Cumming]

All the regular early home PC's did too. The Commodore 64 (64kb), Spectrum, ZX81(named after the year it was made)., Apple's Dragon 32 32kb). You would buy the game on cassette tape, put it in a tape player and type C:/Load CD. Once uploaded from the tape to the computer (which would take 5-10 minutes of pure anticipation) you would find that often or not, the program didn't load properly. After these table-top keyboard computers, we moved on to the leap in computers that was the Amstrad 128mb PC.

[@neilfraser4851]

Great to see you again Rick after some 51 years ! Glad the Lightning still comes out tops:)

[@BrySkye]

That would most likely be the rather famous downing of John Peters and John Nichol on the first day of the war (note, first -day-, not first night). Though more specifically, a MANPADS, probably an SA-16, hit one of the engines. By their account in the book "Tornado Down", they were also hit by AAA which caused the AIM-9L rocket motor to fire, without the missile leaving the rail, which began burning away the wing. Probably one of the major factors was a low-level raid in broad daylight.

[@thetreblerebel]

Anything daylight with ground attack is quite a bit dangerous. No wonder Tornados had a big loss rate in Desert Storm

[@gonzomuse]

@@thetreblerebel Yeah, the Tornados were tasked with destroying the Iraqi runways, which meant they had to basically fly low level along a well known straight course to drop their bombs.

[@entity_dragons2013]

Reading the new book "Tornado"

[@mike6179]

Thanks for the upload, nice to see my bats in the air. I had 4 great years in Germany with IX, in fact best of my life.

[@nigelbryant2672]

Not your bats though Ickie as you were not at Honington. You were still with those losers at Marham.

[@keiko909]

22:51 MIG 28's no ones been this close before!...

[@PhilAss]

keiko909 x

[@bernie2108]

look closely NORTHROP F5 Tallons !

[@keiko909]

@@bernie2108 it's a quote from top gun. The evemy migs they used were actually F5's

[@markburley2343]

Aggressor Squadron RAF Alconbury

[@ades104]

Those were the days. Great video - thanks for uploading this.

[@allgood6760]

Thanks! ..things have evolved since then but one thing is for sure the Tornado will never lose it'"s coolness.👍✈️

[@cherminatorDR]

That music is trippy, man. Love how they got attacked by Mig-28s on the 23 minute

[@BrySkye]

ASRAAM... the least agile of the next generation of short range AA missiles. It started out as a joint UK/German project, with the US also going to buy them. After East and West Germany were unified, the Luftwaffe got their hands on East Germany's MiG-29's, equipped with the seriously underestimated R-73 (AA-11) and suddenly felt ASRAAM was seriously inadequate. They abandoned ASRAAM to make their own IRIS-T & the US the AIM-9X Unlike ASRAAM, both IRIS-T and AIM-9X have thrust vectoring.

[@markp5737]

Love the massive floppy discs :)

[@THE-BUNKEN-DRUM]

That's what she said? Ha, I think that works :-/

[@richardgeorge8612]

this is why you need maths in school

[@globalnomad450]

What’s maths ?

[@RedCoka]

More like a functionnal body and a decent pair of eyes one can work maths, eyesight tho ... meh

[@christophertownley6734]

At the same time you also need people that can teach math well.

[@rubensano4860]

@@globalnomad450 mathematics.

[@rubensano4860]

All you need these days is a vagina or to identify as a different gender.

[@patrickwcowley]

Thank you so much for sharing this!!! I've just seen a little bit, but it brings back such warm memories when I was young hoping to be a fighter pilot one day. Wishing you all the very best!!

[@BrySkye]

The F-111 and Tonka tie at low level speed, with a max of mach 1.2 However, the Tornado can only do this when 'clean' (no external stores). It's the same with the F-111, but unlike the Tornado (and more like the Buccaneer), it has an internal weapons bay, so it can still carry weapons. But in a combat scenario, the Buccaneer was faster than both at low level! The F-111 is larger, with more range and payload, but the avionics are a LOT older. It's also more expensive to fly and maintain.

[@JohnSmith-ei2pz]

Which version of the F1-111? Half a statement!

[@stephenpage-murray7226]

@@JohnSmith-ei2pz F-111F will do Mach 1.6 at 100 ft.

[@BrySkye]

As for Australia, they got a very good deal with ASRAAM. Although there were difficulties along the way, they eventually gained full access to the intellectual property of the missile, allowing them to upgrade it independently of the UK.

[@serverlan763]

Those 8 bombs were the total budget allocation for the RAF in 1993

[@alexscarbro796]

This is unlike any British RAF video I’ve ever seen!

[@BrySkye]

Anyway, the main reason the F-111C was retired was that it became to expensive to fly and maintain. Australia was the last country to operate the F-111, keeping them until 2010. The USAF retired it's very last EF-111's in 1998. You can imagine that has an impact of spares, etc, when the main operator no longer uses them. At the moment, the RAAF is using the 2 seater F/A-18F Super Hornet until the F-35 is ready, though there is debate there about if the F/A-18F is the better strike jet of the 2

[@thesceptic1018]

Outstanding! Love how orders are prefaced by “I’d like” And how does a Tornado get on a MIG’s 6!?

[@wilddog9x]

At 1:23 I thought he was going to hand the paperwork to the dog.

[@stephenvince9994]

Utterly secure, well loyal anyways, data delivery system. Cannot be trusted with a plate of warm sausages though...

[@COIcultist]

@@stephenvince9994 RAF bombing mission. FFS don't mention the name of the dog!

[@allandavis8201]

COIcultist what, Trigger?

[@ozzieparky]

@@allandavis8201 I thought that was Ernie's horse? 😂

[@davidporter3810]

spent my late teens and early 20s refueling these guys at Bruggen Loved my time in Germany. Oh how i miss those days

[@TheAutisticAngler]

did you ever go to Roemond for a few beers and then to The Jerusalem for a late night Jerusalem Special?

[@penmaker1968]

I remember this film being made- how old do I feel! Great days :)

[@BrySkye]

The AA-11 Archer has been tested in combat, yes. It's not that ASRAAM is no good, it just lags behind the AIM-9X and IRIS-T in terms of agility, which is what you were talking about. When combined with a helmet mounted display, an aircraft with either of those missiles will have an advantage over ASRAAM which was designed to have range over agility As for why we didn't buy the alternatives, a certain element of stubbornness. We thought it was good enough and cancelling it would be embarrassing

[@jpmochan]

BrySkye ASRAAM is a great UK missile with a much larger engagement envelope than AIM-9X and IRIS-T

[@edwardglenn9310]

Stunning aircraft. What a workhorse it turned out to be.

[@petedunn795]

Wow. Brings back memories. I was a Tornado Technician at Honington when this was made!! Forgot all about it. I recognise a couple of the Zobs but can't remember their names!

[@SimDeck]

I love the cassette tape data transfer. Brilliant.

[@t595nige]

Flippin eck,😂that was my life as an SAC on 617 sqn back in 1982…what a brilliant video,thanks👌.

[@TOTALAIRPLANEFRAK962]

@munkyfuka I may have been misinformed, but from what I understand, the intake ramps were wire-locked shut in the Mid-90s to limit the airflow into the engines and so reducing speed. Then again, I may be wrong.

[@BigKelvPark]

To all the people saying it took too long - the alleged incident was a training exercise (although it shows the taxying jests carrying live weapons) with a set time to planned mission. The QRF (Quick Reaction Force) had a manned aircraft ready to taxi at all times.

[@shd4618]

I'm not worthy. These guys did what I have only ever dreamed. But that comb over the boss is sporting is disgraceful.

[@stuartsteel1]

Comb overs and tea drinking. Love it.

[@jimm3379]

Don’t forget the dog

[@MyScotty7]

Watching this opened my eyes about how good the RAF is,incredible people!

[@damsonn]

Well done chaps, splendid video indeed, cheers!

[@hackdaniels7253]

11:13 OK, the port air intake is clear. I expect someone else will check the starboard one.

[@hughjones13]

Thanks Bry! you made me feel very old ! lol I was a Plumber at Honingtn sometime just after they made this vid. @ Blahblah, I would guess around 83 , as the ear defs are still the white amplivox, and grey denims . The good old days !

[@YTJM96]

@BDFPA Me being 15 and born after all of this I would say how little we now have in operational service compared to the eightees. Aircraft like the Bucc, Jag, Tonka GR1 and so on are now gone, leaving us with GR4s (albeit tuned-down aircraft) and nowhere near as many fast jets

[@hughjones13]

@blahblah48856 Around 83 I would guess,. white ear defs, grey denims, Sqn still at Honington, and the Has management cabin looks fairly new still!

[@BrySkye]

They are pretty different scenarios between the F-111 and F-35 in terms of avionics. The issue between the US and UK came down to access to the source code, which is a pretty big deal on such a computerised aircraft, allowing us to modify or upgrade the aircraft completely independently of the US. The F-111 didn't even use Fly-By-Wire, and Australia upgraded their aircraft in the 80's and 90's.

[@derekmacdougall3011]

Superb to watch, beautiful aircraft.

[@alexwrixton6898]

Anyone know where I can get a copy of the music? Brings back so many memories

[@neilrobinson5115]

Great video,loved Tornado,sadly missed in RAF service,wizz kidz typhoon now,great shots of direct hits on Garvie island.

[@Noneofyourbusiness99999]

It’s Top Gun without all the Yeehaa’ing and homoeroticism - and more cups of tea

[@redbaron9029]

Gentlemen's Top Gun

[@grimaldispa7139]

'I was inverted, what what'. 🧐

[@Zone5Aviation]

For the RAF people out there, 22:13 is that Wing Commander Peter Harding, former Commanding Officer Buccaneer Squadrons?

[@macethe20vtace]

So British I love it 👍🏻 roger, cheers 🍻

[@alanbourke4069]

There was another video I used to see in the late 70s/early 80s, which I presume was also some sort of RAF (or possibly army) recruitment effort. It showed an early flight sim with a camera 'flying' over a huge model landscape. It also had an aircraft crash trainer affair which was a sort of fuselage section that was lowered into a pool at which point the passengers had to go through an underwater escape drill. Anyone got any info on this or remember it ?

[@Cdr_Mansfield_Cumming]

This one : www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D4LYy50hVf2s&ved=2ahUKEwihifL5tsbpAhVPi1wKHcVUA7YQjjgwAHoECAcQAQ&usg=AOvVaw2C0zTdFRR7jS0aIBR6Fnqp

[@BrySkye]

Sparrows? The Tornado was never fitted with AIM-7's, not even the ADVs. The F2 and F3 had Skyflash though. Fox 2 = A Sidewinder. A Sparrow shot would be Fox 1. Though its true enough that none of the aircraft in the video are carrying even dummy versions of AIM-9's. I'm not entirely sure of the exact year this was recorded, but it was at least after the Tornados lost their white belly.

[@notmenotme614]

12:26 I remember the map display in the back of early GR’s like a microfiche. It’s interesting seeing how primitive technology was back then.

[@Charles-yz4lw]

Comb-over Commander 1:35

[@EricTViking]

12:02 inserts Awesome Mix Vol.1

[@SPiderman-rh2zk]

If you look up 'Invasion Earth' (BBC 1998) the first episode sees our hero strap himself to an F3 and go off in search of aliens, but once he has climbed to height on his QRA intercept his nav proceeds to do exactly that! The acting is a bit naff in places, but I highly recommend you have a watch. :)

[@bestcity0979]

What is it tho? A memory cassete?

[@EricTViking]

@@bestcity0979 it's an audio cassette tape, but they could also be used for data. Computer games used to come on audio tapes in the 80s.

[@jjsmallpiece9234]

Good show chaps. home for tea with eggs and bacon. Nice to see the lineys wearing proper RAF grey overalls - still have my pair.

[@BrySkye]

It's just reality though. All of the engines for the USMC's Harrier fleet still come from Rolls-Royce, and all the T-45 Goshawks are manufactured in the UK. Boeing just puts the pieces together. When we sell Tornados and Typhoons to the Middle East, they still have to bring them back to us for major upgrades. That's why you can see Saudi Tornados through the Welsh valleys from time to time.

[@BrySkye]

Naw, if you read the credits, it was Flt Lt Nigel Nickles in the video, rather than John Nichol. :)

[@1903chrisholden]

My family friend Sqn Ldr " Pax " was a tornado pilot on both IX and 31 with both Wng Cmdr Peter Gooding and Air Chief Marshal Sir Stuart Peach

[@THE-BUNKEN-DRUM]

Tony's been on "Aircrew Interview" what a legend

[@edwardwally]

I love how British and gentlemanly this video is. No offense to army or navy boys and girls, But any Royal....... Add your commonwealth country air forces so much more rah rah ladi dah. Man I wish I was a Tornado pilot.

[@Kelvin_Foo]

Ahh, my mistake, I think it was a common perception at the time. I read of one loss when an Iraqi AAA round hit the AIM-9L missile carried for self defence, is that correct? The aircraft was carrying a normal bomb load for lofting, IIRC.

[@barrywallace7155]

That’s one rough comb over!

[@berlinocelot]

12:03 do they have to eject if it chews the tape up?

[@Motorman2112]

Have they got a mix of live and training bombs loaded during the takeoff shots?

[@adrianandkatrinadove203]

thats what i was thinking....the green and yellow bands being live...the blue not...

[@BrySkye]

lol, that explains it. Working on the Tombs and its AIM-7s I mean.

[@Shahranim]

we need more of these chap, thank you very much

[@09piklerik]

at 20:00 what's the song name if there is one

[@BrySkye]

No idea, I'm afraid. We know it was composed by Chris Gunning, but as far as I can tell, none of its ever been made available outside of this film. Even KZbin's bots have no idea about it. =p

[@09piklerik]

@@BrySkye it's still hella fire

[@inxskfirligamarty]

very nice vid... tornado is a fantastic plane...- the tornado and the sepecat jaguar the best plane for ground attack and low fly-----tornado y sepecat jaguar mis aviones favoritos para ataque a baja altura,

[@krostouin]

That soundtrack ^^

[@VideoUser3053]

Superb - and fascinating. Thank you for sharing.

[@bassmith448bassist5]

Where do I sign up?????

[@michaeltalbot8242]

Hmmm...Loading stores onto the aircraft just prior to start after power on... I dont think So!

[@BrySkye]

Easily done, it had crossed my own mind once as well!

[@johncone9516]

Did the nav get issued with a pencil to rewind a jammed Nav cassette?

[@Jon-es-i6o]

“For a longtime we (The UKs Tornado Squadrons) were flying in our Tornado’s at a height of 50 feet, and our speed was 600 knots everywhere, all over the UK. And we didn’t receive one single complaint from any member of the UK public.”🇬🇧 Sqn-Leader John Peters

[@niceagle22]

Splendid Video, BrySkye! Having some questions about the radio comms from the video. @21:29, What's the exact expression after saying "throttles off" and what does that mean? @22:45, Is the guy saying "airborne record"? & Does it have same meaning like 'nail' or 'spike' of brevity words for NATO? @23:01, Due to my lack of ability I couldn't get whole talking from the leader. Are there anybody else who can tell me entire phrases exactly? @23:05 The leader is talking about "Catapult Go". Does that mean a kind of RAF defensive tactics for air to air combat? If it is, how does the game plan go? I'm a big fan of RAF and really eager to learn about those things as precisely as possible. Looking for help from kind lads. Cheers.

[@BrySkye]

To me, it sounds like: - 1st thing being said is "Throttles Open, Mid Setting". Which I would *assume* to mean applying more power, if not full throttle, and confirming the wings should be set to the middle setting of swing (the IDS version of the Tornado only had pre-set sweep settings of unswept, mid sweep and fully swept). It's also possibly "Throttle open, mil setting" as in military power. Which is full power without going into reheat/afterburner. - 2nd thing. I'm pretty sure it's "Airborne Racket". I imagine that's more slang than brevity, referring to another aircrafts radar making a lot of noise on the RWR. One of the things to keep in mind is that this was a recruitment video, so certain things are embellished or simplified without trying to be TOO obvious. I wouldn't take it as a fully accurate account in terms of all the terminology and phrases. I think only a current RAF pilot, or even better former Tornado one, could go into details about what exactly Catapult would be.

[@PicRic]

Groovy sound track in the Tornado, man!

[@Decrepit_biker]

Wow, they managed to get some MiG 28s for filming, and during the cold War at that! Seriously though fantastic film and very Uchida of its time ❤

[@richardhoffmann179]

F-5 Tiger Aggressor Squadron from RAF Alconbury

[@MyLegend420]

beautifull music with beast good

[@fortresstheband]

Beautiful Jet.

[@paulwynn8029]

Awesome great stuff loved it