The Panavia Tornado at Low-Level: The Ultimate Pictorial Display of the Tornado in its Element [Hardcover]

The photos are spectacular, are large enough and clear enough to be used by the modeler, especially due to the number of shots where you're looking down on the aircraft! The text sections are informative and well written as well.  AeroscaleThe small group of enthusiasts and photographers who had braved the winter weather and gathered on the slopes of the Lake Districts iconic valleys on Wednesday, 9 January 2019, were witnesses to the end of an era. The RAF Tornado GR.4 that raced past them, in some cases at a lower altitude than the onlookers, made the last ever low-level flight by this aircraft in the United Kingdom Low Flying System. Never again would the Mighty Fin, an aircraft that had been a familiar sight among the valleys of the UK for around forty years, provide such a spectacle.First flown in August 1974, the Tornado arguably become of the RAFs most important aircraft of the Cold War. Indeed, the Tornado was the mainstay of RAF strike aircraft, from its early days as a nuclear capable low-level interdiction strike fighter (the GR.1 in RAF service), through to its retirement as a more versatile medium to high-level strike fighter, the GR.4.Along with the shorter-lived Air Defence Variant, the F.2/F.3, the Tornado was without doubt one of the best loved aircraft types amongst photographers and crews with the sheer number of the initial GR.1s allowing them to populate eleven front-line squadrons as well as the training units of the Tri-National Tornado Training Establishment and the Tornado Weapons Unit. Altogether, over twenty units flew variants of the type in the RAF alone.The Tri-National Tornado Training Establishment also catered for the other partner nations of Germany and Italy with all crews finding their way into the United Kingdom Low Flying System on a regular basis. It was, in fact, the impending introduction of the Tornado and the resulting increase in low-level activity that forced a restructuring of the UKLFS in 1979.In this book, Scottl#¼