Page 93 - Air Forces Monthly - September 2017

Above: Battle honours on the tail of Tornado GR4
ZG750/128 chart the Tornado GR Force’s combat
operations from Granby in 1990-1991 to Shader
today. Rich Cooper
Left: Landing at the Royal International Air Tattoo
in July, complete with blue Enhanced Paveway IIs
(EPW2s). Jamie Hunter

touched down at RAF Fairford it had just
10hrs of flying time left on the service log
before being flown from RAF Marham,
Norfolk – the last RAF Tornado base – to RAF
Leeming, North Yorkshire, to be reduced to
spares under the Reduce to Produce (RTP)
programme. This successful project has
cannibalised Tornados to help provide a
cost-effective spares source with which to
maintain the remaining machines in service.

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