Last Operational Tonka F3's Landing 28/02/11

A bit bored whilst being away from home again so thought I would dig out these old pics, sorry for the ‘Wood’ fans but this is pure ‘Metal’ and yes its just a few years too late but I did agree at the time to delay posting as someone had rights to the pictures on the day. So this was the landing of the last 3 operational Panavia Tornado F.3’s at RAF Leeming in March 2011. There were a couple more airframes that came up from Boscombe I think but this was a great day. By a stroke of luck a very good friend of mine was able to get me and another forumite on station. We watched them arrive do a circuit and land, I have some video somewhere which I will dig out and post. 3 Airframes with famous tails I believe hit the ‘Loop’ on their way in. So we have ZE791 ’25 Year Tail’, ZH554 ‘HX’ and ZE734 ‘JU’
I heard recently an ATC squadron have the 25 year tail which is good news. Enjoy the pics, I added a couple Hawks at the end 🙂 Try not to cry too much…

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