Ten schemes for the interceptor Panavia Tornado F.3 in 1:48: squadrons from Leuchars, Waddington, Leeming and Coningsby plus a Saudi machine from 1991.
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While the strike Tornado was aimed low over the ground, the F.3 version came about for something else: it was to catch Soviet bombers far from the British coast, before they came within firing range. For that it was given a lengthened fuselage, a greater fuel load, a powerful radar and semi-active radar homing missiles carried in semi-recessed bays under the fuselage.
The sheet runs through its whole British career. You will find machines from Leuchars, where the interceptor Tornados stayed longest, the operational evaluation unit from Waddington and later carriers of celebratory finishes with a black fin or an all-black fuselage.
A chapter of their own are the two aircraft from Operation Telic in 2003, which had characters from British children's comics painted on their noses. It is one of the last cases of classic nose art reaching a modern RAF combat aircraft.
The span from 1991 to 2011 means that gray finishes of differing shades and differing rules for national insignia meet on one sheet. Before applying them it pays to compare the chosen scheme against a period photograph, because the same squadron changed details of its markings even from year to year.
Naši poradci a znalci sortimentu jsou připraveni odpovídat na Vaše dotazy (Po–Pá, 8–18 hod).
Zeptejte se na co potřebujete, odpovíme co nejdříve.
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