They’ve done well- nearly 7500 flying hours per aircraft at the moment but they are showing their age with the amount of maintenance to keep them going. Keep an eye out next February for a supposed 9 aircraft fly past with the retirement colour schemes. Two are already been completed and are flying around but there is one more special scheme coming soon which is quite spectacular.
Please keep us in touch with this event RAF, ……..…I'd love to see it live.
I remember as a newly qualified teacher at my first post in Preston, in 1973/4 the kids were buzzing about a new aeroplane that their dads were starting work on "and build" near Preston, the MRCA as she was"christened"...…….. and the local papers got hold of the story that this new Multi Roll Combat Aircraft was to be the new weapon to combat the threat of Russian air threat...…….they were exciting times for the north west, and indeed the country, when this new aeroplane eventually took to the skies, and we could see her fly over the north west on test flights...........
and yet, I can't believe that it was over 40 years or more ago that this was happening in my and other peoples lives.
to see both the birth and demise of such an amazing aircraft as the Tornado, is something I will never forget, and YOU and many others must be and should be so proud of yourselves for playing a part in keeping these beautiful aircraft in the skies and keeping this country safe for so long.
Congratulations, well done.........and old belligerent farts like me should be so thankful for people like you.
Well done raflaunches, and good luck with your next role...….you deserve the thanks of us all on here......you certainly have mine.