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A couple of shots of Tornado F3's of 1435 Flt based in the Falklands now. There are plans replace the F3's with the Eurofighter Typhoon by the end of 2007, we will wait and see :?:

It was a PR Mk IX of 542 Squadron which brought back pictures of the breached dams following 617 Squadron's legendary raid and I have never seen a PR IX with drops tanks either.

Truly excellent :wav:

Below are some of the images I took during the PR9's last deployment to the Gulf this summer, 1 month later, 39(1 PRU) Squadron was gone and the aircraft sold. :evil:

For the RAF :- "For most RAF jobs, you must have been a citizen of the UK, the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland since birth, or have dual British/other nationality. For security reasons, there are stricter nationality requirements for some jobs. For a few, you must have been a...

Taken from the British Army Website To join as a Solider: "You can join the British Army from the UK or overseas providing you meet the required nationality criteria. Joining from the UK You must be a resident of the United Kingdom or the Irish Republic, and preferably have lived...

You hit the nail on the head, the parents, when I was a young lad, many moons again, my god my father and mother kept both my brother and myself under control. I once got in a fight at school and my mother demanded that I got detention. Thanks mum........... Ok lets go another way, bring back...

The highest speed ever "officially" accomplished in a dive by a propeller driven aircraft was by Flt Lt. Ted Powles, RAF, in a Spitfire Mk.XIX at 690 mph or .94 mach. in an emergency power dive from a true altitude of 51,550 feet. This occurred on 05 Feb, 1952. This his accomplishment was...

The PR ID was a special long range with leading edge wing tank + 30 gallon fuselage tank, it carried so much fuel that it was nicknamed "the bowser". Early production models were very badly balanced and consequently difficult to fly. Later models were better balanced, had the more powerful...

Sorry again mate, not true I live over 2 hours from my place of duty, in fact I'm the only military person who lives in the street. So there's no sphere around me or my family. We see what it going on around us and yes there are things that make us mad, so what to we all do, move, leave the...

I do not live of camp, I have my own home for the past 20 years and so I have not been drawn into the secure way of life on a RAF Station. I do see what is happening in the big wide world and around my local area. Maybe I’m lucky that I live in a place were my two daughters can go out and not...

I’m sorry mate I think you are talking a load of CRAP. I’m British and will always be proud of it and I’m very proud to wear the Queens uniform like I have for the pass 30 years, using words like shambles to depict our military only breaks the morale of the troops who are serving and may I...

The last and the greatest photographic reconnaissance variant of the Spitfire was the PRXIX. It was powered by the Griffon 66 engine, with a max ceiling of 42,000ft. Its normal safe range was 1,160 miles, but this was extended to 1,550 miles by adding a 170 gallon overloaded drop-tank. She...

The early PR Mk's A to C were based on the original Mk1 airframe, the Mk1a fighter had a max speed of 367 mph PR MkD (later called PRIV) used the Merlin 45 engine that was fitted to the MkV fighter and had a top speed of 372 mph PR VII again used a Merlin 45 but had a speed of 368 mph...

Thank you :lol: