Trip to the National Museum of the US Air Force

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The Tornado came about when in 1968 the United Kingdom, West Germany and Italy got together and formed Panavia Aircraft to produce a low-level, variable-sweep wing,supersonic multirole combat aircraft. It first flew in August 1974 and was introduced into service in 1979–1980
The Tornado was used by the Royal Air Force), Italian Air Force and Royal Saudi Air Force during the first Gulf War and was also in Yugoslavia during the Bosnian War and Kosovo War, in Iraq during the second Gulf War, , as well as in Afghanistan and during the Libyan civil war.

 
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Nice ones Glenn. Back in the 1960s, when it was just known as MRCA (Multi Role Combat Aircraft), it seemed to take so long to come to fruition, with only a mock-up having been seen, that it became known as Mother Riley's Cardboard Aeroplane !
 
The F-22 is an air superiority fighter, which uses stealth technology and also has capabilities that include ground attack and electronic warfare. It entered service in late 2005 and due to budget restraints the original order for 750 was reduced to only 187 before production was halted in late 2011. Raptors are only operated by the U.S. Air Force due to a ban on foreign sales.

 
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Aaron, it was a period of getting used to longer development times. The Canberra was retained in service (among other types) until the first Tornado GR1s came along (and much later i other roles), and were up-dated many times. It became a joke that MRCA meant what Karl described !
Oops! Crossing posts - nice shots of the Raptor Glenn.
 
Was that particular F-22 a mock up or test article? With so few, you would have thought they would have upgraded a test article to an operational configuration.
 
For quite a while they had the YF-22 displayed in the same place, but this year was first time I saw a F-22 there. According to Wikipedia the YF is at the museum at Edwards now. There weren't any specifics about this aircraft but I believe it is a production F-22
 
The F-117A was the world's first operational stealth aircraft. It first flew in 1981 and achieved operational stats in 1983 as a ground attack aircraft, so the "F" in front of its number is somewhat misleading, which may have been the point. The F-117 was used during the both Gulf Wars and the Kosovo War where one was lost in combat. They were retired from service in 2008 and mothballed in climate controlled hangers instead of being shipped to the graveyard at Davis-Monthan AFB.

 
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