Awesome interview and video. I was at Sheikh Isa, fairly close to Dhahran. I wasn't aircrew or a pilot, I was Air Force Security Forces (Air Base Ground Defense). 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧
Find memories of the Tornado. Worked on that jet prior to gulf 1 and then on its return . I now live in California and will one day visit the museum . Thanks For The video!
Great to see you here Rodger! Thanks for pointing out the undercarriage, but the video also took me straight back to all the halcyon days on IX(B) and beyond. TABS! Miami H-V.
I notice there is no refueling boom up by the cockpit. I wonder if it had one originally and the museum removed it, or if this specimen never got one at all?
The aircraft was just not good enough to fight a modern war. The panic to get these painted pink was incredible. They had to be camouflaged as well as possible as the RAF knew they were so vulnerable. Tactics over might.
I have a photograph of this aircraft “Miss Behavin” that I took at Dhahran Airbase during Desert Storm. USAF vet 1986-1991.
Awesome interview and video. I was at Sheikh Isa, fairly close to Dhahran. I wasn't aircrew or a pilot, I was Air Force Security Forces (Air Base Ground Defense). 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧
Find memories of the Tornado. Worked on that jet prior to gulf 1 and then on its return . I now live in California and will one day visit the museum . Thanks
For
The video!
I have moved from the Uk across to Arizona, i need to visit the museum too!
Great to see you here Rodger! Thanks for pointing out the undercarriage, but the video also took me straight back to all the halcyon days on IX(B) and beyond. TABS! Miami H-V.
that is my Grandad (Rodger barker)
I notice there is no refueling boom up by the cockpit. I wonder if it had one originally and the museum removed it, or if this specimen never got one at all?
Thats a painting, 3:48 i thought it was a sticker...good job dude
The aircraft was just not good enough to fight a modern war. The panic to get these painted pink was incredible. They had to be camouflaged as well as possible as the RAF knew they were so vulnerable. Tactics over might.
More than capable in their day. Pink camouflage was obviously needed to match the desert.