Brilliant absolutely brilliant thank you for not adding any music

@fastjetnav

5 жыл бұрын

My biggest bug-bear, like you. Second biggest is 'speeded-up' jet videos

A wonderful Cold War era low level , TFR capable intradicition bomber leaving the RAF at the top of it's game in March, 2019. So long, Tornado, you were a class act! Garry Harriman, South Carolina, USA, former RAF Cpl aircraft refinishing.

@NiSiochainGanSaoirse

3 жыл бұрын

God bless you brother. England misses you all.

Love it ,doing what the tornado was designed to do low and fast !!!! 👍

Seems very stable at that height.did low level in in a Herk in the 80’s down through Scotland,from Lossiemouth to Wittering.never again,bouncing up and down.haha memories,best wishes to all GR4 crews for the future.look after yourselves.

Grazie per questo stupendo video!!!

What a great video! Thanks for sharing this.

This video is just wonderful, what an incredible aircraft and what a ride.

@fastjetnav

3 жыл бұрын

thanks

Happy Days. I did that for 16 years and gave it up for a life of much better remunerated boredom flying airliners for the next 27. I still miss it.

@fastjetnav

5 жыл бұрын

Enjoy :-( could be worse, trust me.

@garryharriman7349

5 жыл бұрын

I painted them for 20 years and now live in the US working as a fucking security guard with thick as fuck morons for peanuts. So, you're doing okay really, aren't you?

That was so cool !! What a fantastic career !! Fighter pilot , awsome !!

Excellent video! Thanks for sharing =)

@fastjetnav

6 жыл бұрын

No problem, just wished the early 2000s had gopro tech :-( and not this sonycam (was good for it's day though)

Amazing warbird that if you was lucky as a kid would be on top of a tight deep valley and you look down and wave like a nutter you’d get a wave or an acknowledgment wing wave . That’s if you lucky to hear them coming in the first place , some valleys mask their noise till you hear them roar by

I downloaded a GR4 and fly it in VR all good fun.

Brilliant video loved it .miss the old Tonka lucky man.are you still flying

loved picking out the landmarks on the route.

@fastjetnav

4 жыл бұрын

Great :-) that was the plan

Great video! My favourite low level photo spot is at the north end of Thirlmere

@iainbradford4254

6 жыл бұрын

A choice spot indeed :-)

@booyatribe4161

6 жыл бұрын

Be alert. Maybe shoulder fired SAMS are on their trigger😃😃😃

Lovely old Tonka...Keep a lookout for para gliders. I would hate to be in the back.

@fastjetnav

11 ай бұрын

Disadvantaged in terms of front lookout for sure, but you'd get spots before the pilot in the front sometimes. Plenty of para gliders etc seen during my low level flying. Even a hot air balloon in some quite murky weather in the Cheviot mountains! Worse still was Germany. In my time we were limited to 1000ft, which is just where a lot of the civvy aviation likes to be, and Germany has a lot!

@grahamthebaronhesketh.

11 ай бұрын

@@fastjetnav I used to Nav in a pipeline helicopters 500ft AGL, had a few close ones with fast jets in Wales. Milford Haven to Half penny green route.

What was the routing from after the Lakes, to Tummel? Through the Scottish Borders (over my house) or Galloway or to the west over the sea or coast?

Swing wing off death😍😍

@TheAngmarwitch

Жыл бұрын

The Flying Fin

Top Hole What!

How far could you realistically cruise in one of these for before needing to refuel? Always wondered how much of a nightmare logistically speaking it was to get them out to the Middle East. And, on a longer flight, does the pilot have any form of Autopilot to take the strain off for a while?

@fastjetnav

3 жыл бұрын

As with everything the answer for range is, it depends. Many factors, but about 2 to 3 hours and we cruised a bit slower than most airliners do. Auto pilot is a big help for long trips with a tanker, but only for the bits which do not involve the refueling and only in good weather. In cloud or poor viz, it's manual flying and often in close formation for hours at a time. Really hard work for the pilots, especially at night with all the sensory and visual illusions that occur.

Macchina grandiosa il Tornado. Penso non fosse secondo a nessuno, e' corretto?

What year was this filmed?

@fastjetnav

4 жыл бұрын

2002

At the beginning that looks like the humber bridge if so it flew over my house I could of seen this not even remember and years later watch it on KZread not remembering it flew over me all those years ago that's mad

@fastjetnav

11 ай бұрын

Indeed the Humber bridge. We would fly past about 6000ft for a short trip towards the RAF Linton-on-Ouse area. If there was cloud then that airfield radar controller could clear you down to a reasonable lower altitude to try to get under the cloud into the low flying. The GR1/4 could also do this 'inhouse' with terrain following radar, but not really permitted in that area of the UK.

Did this plane just go from the Bristol estuary to the lake district in less than four minute????

@fastjetnav

3 жыл бұрын

Not quite, it's the River Humber and bridge.

Crosses into Scotland and puts the sun visor down...comedian 😂🥃

@fastjetnav

4 жыл бұрын

It was for a bet ;-)

Wow are you Toronto pilot?

@105aviation4

4 жыл бұрын

Actually he is a naviagtor

Was hoping he made contact with his boys

Just Brilliant but before I go did the RAF do a video Of the BRITISH ILES

Anyone know what a Tornado GR4 does to the gallon ?

@fastjetnav

3 жыл бұрын

600kg per minute roughly. US or Imperial gallon? A few assumptions, sea level supersonic just over Mach 1, and about 200 gallons a min in 11-12 miles, something like 0.05 miles per gallon. Cruise would be 15-20 times better.

@user-zg4xq1fb3z

4 ай бұрын

​@fastjetnav love this video. I knew a lad very well who was a Nav on IX(B) back in 2002-2005.

Why did the British task force did not use it during the Retaking of The Falkland Islands in 1982. Just wandering☺☺☺☺

@watson946

6 жыл бұрын

It’s not a carrier born aircraft.

@booyatribe4161

6 жыл бұрын

Ian Watson oh yes😊 i understand now. So the Royal Navy Task Force instead use a more agile carrier born strike aircraft The Sea Harriers.

@glenn1411

6 жыл бұрын

how would you have got a Tornado aircraft from the u.k. to the south Atlantic ??? thats not possible im afraid , you cant fly and continually re fuel a sqdn of Tornados that kind of distance to Assension or the falklands for that matter. if you recall the Vulcan mission from Assension Island to bomb the runway at port stanley involved a whole fleet of Victors to get just ONE aircraft to the falklands and back,and it just barely made it back ! its a physical impossibility to do that with a Tornado, the aircraft would consume more fuel than could be possibly transferred to it in flight Thats why they "carried " Harriers on aircraft carriers, the only Strike fighter aircraft in the u.k. arsenal capable of being taken that kind of distance was the Harrier on board ship. the Tornado isant a carrier aircraft unfortunately .and thanks to that PRAT David Cameron we havent an aircraft that we could send to the falklands anymore like the Harrier so thats the u.k. knackered for additionally supporting any u.k. ground forces if an invasion of the falklands was to happen again, that fuck wit Cameron SOLD off the entire compliment of Royal Navy and RAF Harriers

@davesmith4556

5 жыл бұрын

It’s not the fuel that was the issue in getting the aircraft half way around the world, its the amount of oil you can put in the engine. The RB199 is a partial loss oil system, which means its always loosing oil through its sealing labyrinths. If a long transit flight is needed, you have to over fill the sumps to accommodate the extra duration of flight time. With little or no stops on the way, it wouldn’t have made it. The engines would have ground to a halt long before they engaged the enemy.

@davesmith4556

5 жыл бұрын

Couldn’t agree with you more, Cameron is defo a fuk -wit... and he sold those harriers off to the Americans after they had just been given a full refit to future proof the airframe for another 15 years, and for the princely sum of £1000 each. The Americans must have been rubbing their hands together over our stupidity. Poxy government...full of ass-holes.

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

always thought pilots were taught to fly over the shore and not the water,to make being seen from above more difficult !!

@fastjetnav

5 жыл бұрын

Correct, but sometimes you are just on your own and another aircraft just 'piling in and tapping you' is unlikely and besides the crew might not even be authorized to evade on some trips. Scotland is lumpy, so it's just nice to fly down the lochs sometimes. On a sunny day, often the shadow will give you away before seeing the aircraft if you are high up trying to 'bounce' a formation below you that you have pre-arranged to make life difficult for.

@iain8837

11 ай бұрын

Not every second of every flight is simulating war time flying! And I don’t think fly just over Mach 1 would be tolerated on the shore line 😂

Low level max Speed max thrust no AB

@fastjetnav

4 жыл бұрын

It depends: which is the standard answer for all aviation questions. Around 550kts would probably be about right with stores

The flying coffin