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Operation Shader: Tornado GR4s Take on Fuel from a Voyager KC2 Tanker
(Image: Staff Sgt. Perry Aston; Tornado GR4s refuel during Operation Shader) This stunning photograph, which depicts two Panavia Tornado GR4 strike jets of the Royal Air Force taking on fuel from an...
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Scrapped: Panavia Tornado GR1s ZA409 & ZA474
(Image: Martin Henderson; Tornado GR1 ZA409 in September 1988) Urban Ghosts is sorry to report that two grounded Panavia Tornado GR1 airframes, which were previously understood to be in storage at RAF...
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Tornado ZA361 Passes Through the Port of Barcelona, Spain
(Image: Simon Iglesias; Panavia Tornado ZA361 in Barcelona, Spain) Of the three condemned Panavia Tornado GR1 carcasses dumped on a disused ramp at RAF Marham in 2005, ZA361 is the sole survivor. The...
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The RTP’d Remains of Panavia Tornado ZA600
(Image: Peter; the remains of Tornado ZA600 after RTP) Panavia Tornado GR4 ZA600 wore a variety of camouflage schemes throughout its 33 years of service, from the early Cold War green/grey finish to...
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Unidentified Tornado GR4 Fuselage Loaded on C-17 Globemaster
(Image: Cpl Dave Blackburn RAF; Tornado GR4 fuselage loaded onto C-17) This photograph, taken by Royal Air Force Cpl Dave Blackburn, shows the empty fuselage of a Panavia Tornado GR4 strike jet being...
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Scrapped? The Commemorative Tail Fin of Tornado ZD788
(Image: Peter; 40th anniversary tail fin of Tornado ZD788) During the summer we featured the redundant carcass of Panavia Tornado GR4 ZA600 following RTP at RAF Leeming, in Yorkshire. The popular 41...
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Hulk of Tornado F2 ZD899 at Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service...
(Image: Shaun Connor; hulk of Tornado F2 ZD899) Last year Jet Art Aviation announced that it had secured ZD902, a unique, heavily modified Panavia Tornado F2A known as TIARA (Tornado Integrate...
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Tornado ZA371 After Emergency Landing Accident at Newcastle Airport...
(Image: Grahame Robinson; Tornado GR4A ZA371 at Newcastle Airport) Around teatime on August 5, 2008, Panavia Tornado GR4A ZA371 was involved in an incident at Newcastle Airport in North East England....
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Special Tail Fin of Tornado ZA461 Returns to RAF Lossiemouth
(Image: Alan Potts. Tornado ZA461 tail fin returns to RAF Lossiemouth) We’ve periodically covered the ongoing RTP (reduced to produce) process of the UK’s Panavia Tornado GR4 fleet, as time-expired...
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The Tornado F3 Mockup Used for Fire Training (RAF Leeming)
This mock up of a Tornado F3 was used when F3s were based at RAF Leeming it still has an ejector seat in the front with all the straps so they can simulate getting the pilot out of a fighter jet.....
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RTP: Panavia Tornado GR4 ZA453 (022) Withdrawn From Service
(Image: Paul Lucas; Tornado GR4 ZA453 over Bruntingthorpe, 2015) ZA453 (022) has become the latest Panavia Tornado GR4 to be ‘reduced to produce‘ at RAF Leeming in North Yorkshire. The airframe, which...
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RTP Goldstars Special: Tornado GR4 ZA548 to Leeming for Disposal
(Image: Howard Sinclair. Tornado GR4 ZA548 reduced to produce) Last up it was ZA453 (022), now it’s the turn of Panavia Tornado GR4 ZA548 (040) to meet the breaker. The ‘Goldstars special’ first flew...
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Preserve “Pinky”: Campaign to Save Tornado GR4 ZG750
(Image: Steve Tron). Panavia Tornado GR4 ZG750 aka “Pinky”) With ever more Tornado GR4 airframes going out of service and being disposed of via RTP (reduced to produce, or spares reclamation and...
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Patchwork Paint Scheme Makes Tornado ZD749 the RAF’s Most Untidy GR4
(Image: Nick Collins; Tornado ZD749, with its patchwork paint job, passes through the Mach Loop) As more and more airframes are withdrawn from service and cannibalised for spare parts to keep the...
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Tornado GR4 Prototype XZ631 in Stunning New Paint Scheme at Elvington
(Image: Steve Tron; pre-production Panavia Tornado XZ631 after refurbishment at Elvington) By the second half of last year, the Yorkshire Air Museum’s Panavia Tornado GR4 was beginning to look rather...
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Derelict Tornado GR1 Carcasses (ZA322, ZA361 & ZA375) on Marham Dump
(Image: Andy Purbrick; derelict Tornado airframes ZA322 (left) and ZA375) Until fairly recently, it was normal for a visit to an RAF airfield to include a pilgrimage along the fence line to a...
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Multi-Role Combat Aircraft: Panavia Tornado Prototypes & Pre-Production...
(Image: Shaun Connor; Panavia Tornado prototype XX947 (P.03) getting airborne with a full weapons load) After the controversial cancellation of the mighty TSR-2 in the 1960s, and the shelving of a...
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Gulf Wars: 8 Abandoned Military Air Bases of Iraq
(Image: Pedmore; revisiting the abandoned airfields of Iraq) For quarter of a century under the brutal dictator Saddam Hussein, Iraq became a hotbed of military activity that saw the establishing of...
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GR4 Scrapped: Mortal Remains of Panavia Tornado ZD844
(Image: Jonathan Irwin Photography; the gutted hulk of Tornado ZD844 in a scrap yard prior to recycling) Over the past year or so Urban Ghosts has documented the slow demise of the Panavia Tornado...
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Tornado ZA367 Undergoes Repairs at RAF Gibraltar in 2012
(© DM Parody (www.dotcom.gi/photos; Panavia Tornado ZA367 at RAF Gibraltar) Tucked away in the back of a hangar at RAF Gibraltar, Panavia Tornado GR4 ZA367 was photographed undergoing repairs...
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