Considering I was born in 1979 Im too young to of seen the Aeronauts but I do have an Annual which my parents got me second hand in the late 80’s.mAnything to stop me talking about aircraft 😀

I didn’t shut up until I joined the cadets and got my first ever flight in a DHC Chipmunk. I must dig up my 3822 to see which airframe it was.

Then you defintely didn’t see it. This quote from another site.

Les Chevaliers du Ciel – (France “The Aeronauts”, tv series; ORTF 1967-69, 1014m) D: François Villiers. Jacques Santi = Lt Tanguy, Christian Marin = Lt Laverdure, Muriel Baptiste = Colette, Michèle Girardon = Nicole, Marlène Jobert = Irène, Victor Lanoux = Lantier. Screenplay: Jean-Michel Charlier. 39 episodes. Based on Charlier and Uderzo’s comic strip Les aventures de Tanguy et Laverdure, two French fighter pilots grapple with a gang of spies led by a mysterious “Mr. X.” Written at a time when France was building its nuclear strike force and beginning to export aero production. Shot in France, Europe, Canaries, West Indies, Polynesia and Peru with 50 different types of planes(!), it features French aviation technology in the ’60s and its star, Mirage IIIC.

AIRCRAFT: Dassault Mirage IIIC, 5P, B, G, V, Etendard IV, Mystere IVA, Super Mystere B2, Alphajet, MD311, Falcon 20; Breguet BR.765, BR.941, BR.1050 Alizé, BR.1150 Atlantic; Fouga CM.170R; MS.880 Rallye Club; SO.30P Bretagne, 4050 Vautour; Stampe 4C; Aerospatiale Alouette II, Alouette III; SNCAN 2500; Nord C-160; Sud-Aviation Caravelle; CASA 2111L; HA.111K2; DHC-2; DHC-6; Canberra T74, B.(I)8; Gloster Meteor NF-11; Pilatus PC-6; Cessna 150, 172; Convair 440; DC-3, DC-6, DC-9; T-33; F-8E; F-84F; F-104G; L749 Constellation; P2V-7; PBY-5A; Piper Cub; SH-58; SNB-5.

Said it had a Canberra in it 😀

GR4 = Upgraded GR1
GR4A = Upraded GR1A – The main differnce between the GR4 and the GR4A is the IR Linescan recce system with a sideways looking sensor on each side of the front fuselarge and a 180 horzion to horzion sensor on the underside of the front fuselarge. I don’t think the GR1A or GR4A has cannons. The Bays that held the cannons on the GR1 were used for the Recce system avionics on the GR1A/4A versions.

The USAF should buy the Israeli buddy refueling pod to use on the F-15C and then buy the Israeli F-16 drop that has a probe in it. That way the F-15Cs might prove useful again in our current unpleasantries… 🙂

PBAR

A mate of my flew on a VC-10 tanker sortie back on Op Telic, He told me that on the sortie the VC-10 refuelled USAF F-16. My reply, Impossible, the F16 don’t have a probe refuelling system, they use a boom system :rolleyes: . My mate then tells me the F-16s have a probe on a wing drop tank. Thus the USAF are already using that method.

Need you “look out” for GR1s? If it flies, I think it’s 4.

I’ve seen a GR1 Tornado fly in UK Airspace within the last week. It had Black Crosses on it (OK it was a Luftwaffe IDS, which is a lot closer to a GR1 than a GR4).

Even though it has been converted to a tanker we all know there is only one real bomber in that picture! :diablo:

True 😀 😀 😀

TORNADO GR 4

TORNADO GR 1

One other differnce, The GR4 lacks the 27mm cannon on the port side (still has one on the starboard side. the removed gun bay holds the FLIR avionics). The GR 1 has 2 cannon port and starboard (again the visable difference is smaller than the FLIR bump).

Best External difference is the extra bump on the GR 4 under the forward fusalarge which houses the FLIR system sensor as well as the bump for the Laser ranger. The GR 1 only has one bump for the Laser ranger.

Humm, i think thats a coup with the first public pic’s of painted TA122.

Looks a lot better than it was the last time I was there 😀 😀 😀