The new Tornado GR4 tail

[onemac]

Form your own opinions....

1. Through the heat haze - first glimpse...


2. Getting closer - the other side...


3. Full whack - impressive???


4. Close up - inspiried???


I'm underwhelmed but it is at least an effort so I balance on the fence in this instance (although the pics were taken on terra-firma).

Al

[RoverDriver]

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[bigcrow]

That's is awful.. Not a lot of thought gone into that & rather embarrassing to celebrate 30 years..

[Stu]

30 years of Tornados nice catch where did them years go to..........

[IanOlder]

I suppose it qualifies for "better than nothing".....not very exciting is it?

Somebody should have referred them to German monster thread to see how to really paint a Tornado.

[BatmanIX]

Should have just left it in 9sqn markings and not bothered!

[Kenny]

Zzzzzzzzzz

[Paultojo]

Nice shots Al, beats an all grey tail

[LN Strike Eagle]

Nice shots Al, beats an all grey tail

There's not much difference.

[agdickie]

3D Years? An homage to modern cinema?

[Ben H]

I thought general protocol when writing stuff was the put the words in the order they should be read...?

Congratulations to the Tornado force for Years 30 of service.

[st24]

Plane embarrasing that....

[PeterR]

Go and look at how ZA469 looked in the 25 years markings... and wonder why all the good scheme designers have left the RAF?

[shaggy101]

Think someones let an accountant loose on that one. Not their best work

[DamienB]

Quite like the "30" element.

Good job they put the tacky Royal Air Force corporatew@nklogo (tm) on the spine or I'd never have known it was an RAF jet.

[agdickie]

Quite like the "30" element.

As do I, just a shame that's the extent of the scheme.

*Waits for the You-should-be-grateful-to-get-anything brigade*

[RoverDriver]

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[DamienB]

Near the top of the thread, when I asked what the event was, the reason is simply that the tail markings don't tell me! Years 30 of Tornado doesn't make sense to me, as I could have sworn that I was working with Tornado noise ringing in my ears in 1980, which is a bit over the Years 30.

It's presumably 30 years of frontline service as 9 Sqn were operational from 1982 while only TTTE were flying in 1980.

[Russ]

The only good thing is the use of the retro "Tornado" logo.

[SHARFA2]

Underwhelmed

[redbearing]

With all the special tails around this is possibly the worst, when you think of Goldstars tail it was outstanding, this seems like an after thought. still better than nothing, nice shots, awful haze!!


robert

[capercaillie]

Please, please RIAT can you try not to get this at this year's show and get a B-1 instead.

[Maisie]

Thats miles better than the Thai's effort. http://www.airliners.net/photo/Thailand ... 2c6596356a


(Please note the sarcasm)

[onemac]

You would think that they could at least have got the symmetry correct - or did they run out of corporate RAF stickers for the right spine?

Al

[Mister Tee]

I suppose it qualifies for "better than nothing

Nope. It doesn't even qualify for that. Complete and utter waste of money which I am sure could have been spend on something more worth while.

Awful

Mr Tee