Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 2)

[Ginetta G15 Girl]

IroningMan said:

What's wrong with missiles?

Missiles can be defeated with countermeasures and / or good tactical flying. They are also not hugely great against ultra low flying targets.

It's pretty difficult to defeat a guns solution.

[Ayahuasca]

Ginetta G15 Girl said:

Missiles can be defeated with countermeasures and / or good tactical flying. They are also not hugely great against ultra low flying targets.

It's pretty difficult to defeat a guns solution.

You would need to be a pretty good shot to keep a jinking Spitfire in your gun sight as you close at, what, 600 knots?
(not sure what the lowest speed a Lightning can fly at...?)

[Ginetta G15 Girl]

I'm not sure the closure rate would be that high, certainly no higher than going up against a say a Tu95. Also, don't forget that the Lightning had a radar predicting gunsight.

Edited by Ginetta G15 Girl on Monday 15th May 14:54

[Trevatanus]

One I'm quite pleased with from Abingdon on Sunday.
_MG_0343 by Jim Pritchard, on Flickr

[tuffer]

Dr Jekyll said:

Come to think of it, there was a time in the late seventies when it looked quite likely that Royal Navy F4s might meet Mustangs in combat over Belize.

Buccaneers, quit apt given the location. Pirates ahoy.

[D4VE 3LL]

a couple of recent Tornado sorties around Wales

DSC_3404web by David Ellins, on Flickr

DSC_4932web by David Ellins, on Flickr

[Eric Mc]

Nice.

Why is the Tornado in Gulf War 1 colours?

[PugwasHDJ80]

25 years on operation commemorative colours.

https://www.raf.mod.uk/news/archive/raf-tornado-fl...

[LotusOmega375D]

Fantastic photos! Well done.

The desert scheme looks ace: very photogenic. It's a shame all combat planes the world over seem to be grey nowadays.

As for the lower shot, the residents of that house must be deafened!

[Trevatanus]

Eric Mc said:

Nice.

Why is the Tornado in Gulf War 1 colours?

Was also at Farnborough last year, Eric, surprised you did not see it?
_MG_7867 by Jim Pritchard, on Flickr

[Eric Mc]

Missed that one.

Even though I spend too much time during Farnborough show week looking at the aeroplanes, i still don't get to see them all.

[Ayahuasca]

D4VE 3LL said:

a couple of recent Tornado sorties around Wales


DSC_4932web by David Ellins, on Flickr

Is that the house that had ' F**k off Biggles' painted on its roof?

[greghm]

Where is exactly the location to see the jets in the mach loop ?

[Trevatanus]

greghm said:

Where is exactly the location to see the jets in the mach loop ?

https://machloop.co.uk/

[SpamCan]

Ayahuasca said:

Is that the house that had ' F**k off Biggles' painted on its roof?

Don't think so:

[McAndy]

That looks farm-like; were the aircraft scaring the livestock? That can have a major impact on productivity of eggs or milk, for example.

[ApOrbital]

Ayahuasca said:

D4VE 3LL said:

a couple of recent Tornado sorties around Wales


DSC_4932web by David Ellins, on Flickr

Is that the house that had ' F**k off Biggles' painted on its roof?

I was just going to post that,it does look like the same building.

[perdu]

Looks different to me



I've a nephew, ex-RN who lives in Shropshire near Tern Hill

Every time one of the helicopter school machines flies over he does that oh too tedious "ps off Biggles" (Crabs is an alternative insult)

He stopped when I asked him where RN helo pilots train...

Great Tornado pictures, I wonder how many parts off other machines would account for the grey one's patchwork appearance

[eccles]

[quote=perdu

Great Tornado pictures, I wonder how many parts off other machines would account for the grey one's patchwork appearance


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Probably just painted last time it was in for a major service. Panels will come off, be inspected and repaired which often involves a repaint. The aircraft itself doesn't get painted so you end up with a patchwork of newly painted panels on an old faded airframe.

[MartG]

perdu said:

Great Tornado pictures, I wonder how many parts off other machines would account for the grey one's patchwork appearance

I figured they were removeable panels which would be taken off the aircraft and painted separately