Farewell Tornado – Tornado on-camera
For this next part of our ‘Farewell Tornado’ series, we have compiled together some of the best available Tornado footage
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Farewell Tornado – The history of The Mighty Fin
With the Royal Air Force retiring its final Tornado aircraft this week, Gareth Stringer takes a look at the history behind this hugely successful platform, one that has provided the UK’s frontline strike capability for three decades. Images as credited.
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Farewell Tornado – Tornado GR.1 Gulf War 1 (Part 2)
To commence our ‘Farewell Tornado’ coverage, we recently re-published the first part of our Tornado GR.1 Gulf War series, which originally appeared on GAR in 2011. As promised, and just as it appeared on the site eight years ago, here is part two.
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Nellis Air Force Base – photography guide
Some years ago the Fencecheck website published a guide to photographing aircraft at Nellis Air Force Base. Sadly Fencecheck is no more, so here at GAR we felt it was time to publish an up-to-date guide.
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Farewell Tornado – Tornado GR.1 Gulf War 1 (Part 1)
Re-published today as the opening article of our ‘Farewell Tornado’ coverage and exactly as it originally appeared on GAR on 07/02/2011, this is the first of two features on RAF Tornado operations during Gulf War 1.
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Exercises and Deployments – Exercise Point Blank 18-3
Tuesday 27th November saw the latest iteration of Exercise Point Blank take place over eastern England and the North Sea. Point Blank is a recurring large force exercise, designed and hosted by the Royal Air Force and the United States Air Force’s 48th Fighter Wing at RAF Lakenheath. Its objective is to increase tactical efficiency of UK and US forces in the UK and Europe and is seen as a low cost alternative to exercises such as Red Flag at Nellis AFB, Nevada.
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Warbirds – FHCAM Stuka Unveiling
As warbirds go, the Stuka is one of the rarest. With two complete examples on display and none flying, it is one that many enthusiasts would love to see flying. FHCAM unveiled their restoration on November 10th and Rob Edgcumbe went along to take a look for GAR.
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Airshow review – Danish Airshow 2018
Back in June, Aalborg Air Station hosted the 2018 Danish Airshow and Steven Coe was there to report for GAR.
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