Subscribe to 'Elwyn R' for regular Video's using this Link bit.ly/2RpZ5fc With the Retirement of the RAF GR4 upon us!! here are a few clips of her over the year's flying the Mach- Loop,
About 25 years ago I saw a Tornado parked on the tarmac at Mather Field near Sacramento California at an air show. I was immediately attracted to it because I had never seen one before and didn't know what it was. I have been interested in them ever since. Sorry to hear they are retiring.
I think that should have been the last video, but great tribute to the sound of freedom. I never worked on them in my RAF career but always a great workhorse in the ever changing HM Forces policies
The last bloke pulling it up like a BAC Lightning and into the grey !! Makes me feel proud to be a Brit. Spitfires, Lightning’s, Tornado’s and now the Typhoons. Wicked !
Ive watched loads of your vids around the mach loop and they are absolutely amazing, I waited and waited for the day I would finally see a video of the tornado at full re-heat blasting through the loop and you didnt let me down thankyou. What an epic video, superb photography which brought a tear to my eye, I will sorely miss the Tornado.
First time I ever seen a tornado was a GR1 screaming over the Derwent Lake, Keswick, Cumbria. 4yrs old, the bird just cleared the trees. I was in ore, 30 yrs later I still am. 😢
@@smudger746 ah yes, that rings a bell. Was it that the Buccaneers could get down low and very fast over the desert dunes, flying through the thermals and still laser sight the targets for the Tornados. Something that the Tornados could not do?
I love this beast. Ever since i was young , going to air shows etc.... . Looked the part, played the part. Loved how rip sharp, it sounded as it went past. Smashing eardrums, car alarms.... Brutal. In all fairness, every airshow i went to, the tornado would only do a fly past. Never a close display, coz it was too noisy. # folkstone airshow . Child memories
Magical stuff. I was just a lad when I first read about the MRCA, my Dad explained the swing wings to me and how we would have our own version of the F111, then I got the airfix model of the red and white prototype, but I never thought it would retire from service about the same time as me.
Lump in throat, after having served in the RAF in the 80's and 90's and having said farewell to the Shack, Bucc, F4, Lightning, Jag, SeaKing, F3, JP's and now the Mighty Tonka......A truly sad time, I shall miss the mighty roar.
Elwyn, This damn near brought me to tears...... Bravo what a top notch send off vid of one of the most capable fighters ever built. Cheers man Voted and Favorite .
It takes true dedication to climb that hill so many times for the footage and even more so with snow on the ground. Thank you very much for your dedication and excellent photography.
Great video. Often I used to see Tornados almost daily from my house in the south of Lanarkshire. Hearing the echoes of the engines in the hills you had seconds to run outside to catch a glimpse and boy was it worth it!
"The Tonka" - bad to the bone, ripping up the Mach Loop and coupled with Elwyn R's top quality footage - marvellous ! Thanks for taking the time, effort and sharing.
Saw this beatiful aircraft first at Farnborough as the MRCA as a kid, went on to work for BAE making tools to make the parts for her (mini and maxi skirt where the nose adapts to the fuselage amongst many others) and in later life supported the platform with pipes and ducts from a spares role again keepng her flying and through MLU's. It was a pleasure to keep her going for so long, as others have commented the last shot of her going full on reheat through the valley and then into a last pull up into the clouds was very emotional for me, what a way to say goodbye. Thanks for bringing such amazing films and memories of one of our most amazing aircraft, the first I have seen come in and go out of service in my working lifetime.
Living is all about making memories I'm glad I have helped in rekindling those memories 👌 in some way! O have just come back off a trip where we got to see the Tornado fly LowLevel 👌
Stunning footage of a plane that holds a special place in my heart. I grew up watching these beauties chasing each other through the valleys or deafening people at air shows. Nothing hits me quite like a Tornado. So sad to see this wonderful machine retired after 40yrs of service, but time moves on I guess. Thank you for your work
I don't know whether I'm looking back with rose tinted glasses, but whenever I was in Wales the Tornado always seemed lower and faster than the Eagles. Both superb planes
Farewell, Tornado and thanks! And than you for the wonderful footage. The last two shots are epic: the jet blasting up into a golden sky, and the final one ripping through the trench on afterburner, then up, up, ever up . . . Thank you.
Fabulous set of clips! Thank you. My favourite Tornado experience occurred the morning after the Canadian National Exhibition Airshow in Toronto some years back. The RAF had sent a pair of Tornadoes with a Vulcan tanker. As we were on our morning commute we passed the end of the runway at Pearson Airport just as they all took off in tight formation. 8 engines going flat out right overhead with no warning - we thought the world was ending! :)
John Lewis obviously know's what he saw. You do not get a Vulcan mixed up with a VC10, you just don't. By the way, the Vulcan HAS been a tanker, briefly granted, but it has been a tanker. They were a B2's, converted to K2's.
All my life I've loved the RAF,I remember the battle of Britain and how you guys saved the day. I was eighteen years old when saw my first tornado at Prestwick airshow. I love that plane,next to the spitfire its my favourite. I'm going to miss her now. Hopefully I'll still see that plane on you tube. It has been the best aircraft in my lifetime so far. I'm not yet convinced about the typhoon,or the aircraft selected for the aircraft carriers. I jus love my tornadoes. Thanks for keeping us safe.
I thought you'd missed the perfect poetic moment when I realised there was another clip after the sunset one but that blast up through the clouds was epic and coupled with sunset was artistically bang on. Got a little emotional. 😢👍👍👍👍🙂
I remember seeing the Tonka for the first time at the airshow at Greenham Common airbase almost forty years ago with my late father and thinking what a cracking looking jet. Such a shame that it's being retired far too early.
Superb! Spectacular and sublime ElwynR! Thanks for these videos as they remind me of a day with my father who was in the armed forces where we experienced a low level flyby of a Tornado in our town whilst I was unwell. Never seen anything like it and sadly now the fleet of aircraft have retired never will again. Here's to all those who flew all the variants over the years. Spiffing marvellous RAF!!!!!!!
Back in the early eighties I was the architect for the then to be BT Machynlleth engineering centre situated just of Forge Road before you climbed the hill to Machynlleth golf club. Often I would be there when the Tornadoes over. I was there as the steel portal frames were being erected and the leader of a four group of Tornadoes came at low level over the hill to discover that he was facing the recently erected frames. He immediately reacted and climbed extremely quickly. He must have also radioed the other three as they had starting climbing before they reached the site. I also remember driving on the Dylife road to the site and seeing Tornadoes my rear view mirror or sometimes below me in the valley.
Stunning camerawork, thanks for sharing, and making the climb to get such great shots. And for Tornado, thanks to all who designed, maintained and flew this awesome machine. When still relatively new, my abiding memory from many airshows at RAF Finningley was always the final Tornado pass...high speed, full sweep, knife edge to vertical climb, with many aileron rolls for effect. I was hooked for life!
My first engineering job 40 years ago come September was in the MRCA Central Design and Management Team in Camberley, Surrey working in the Flight Guidance Control System testing team. This was on the original GR1, the memory in the main computer had not long increased from 32K to 64K. I was fortunate to visit MBB in Manching for on aircraft testing.
You make it look so easy following them through the gap....I have problems keep a milk float in frame as it passes!! 😢 Amazing jet, great service and awesome photography Elwyn, well done 🏆😊👍🏼
Fantastic footage Elwyn and a great tribute to the Tonka. Love the shot into the sunset and the final clip of a zoom climb... Farewell Tornado - the type has served the UK well.
watching your vid just brought memories of all the other jets from the past that have gone, if only we had all these cameras and technology and people like your self we could have enjoyed all of them just like this. fantastic video, i read about the MRCA in the warlord comic as a young lad all of them 40 years ago. who would think that this amazing jet would be so great as to leave us all feeling sad that it finished. Brilliant video loved the afterburners and the extra roll so low reminded me of the harrier.
That final pass on full afterburners, fully swept... That's what you call fucking special. A brilliant piece of filming Elwyn, thank you very much :-)) Looking forward to Yeovilton in July and the F35 and Spanish Harrier!
Excellent footage - sad to see the GR4 following the ADV out of service - but thank you to all the people who flew and supported the fleet in all weathers and all corners of the earth.
Thank you for the videos..... I've followed your channel from day one... I show my dad the videos every time.. he is ex RAF and worked on the English electric lightning.... he was happy to see this video tonight 👍🏻
Imagine living in one of the houses at the bottom of the valley, I never get anything done, everytime I would hear a jet, I'd be out the door to watch it lol.. Great clip, thanks for that.
Amazing video, what an amazing aircraft the mighty Tornado is. She will sadly be missed by so many aviation enthusiasts and by those who have worked and flown this amazing machine. I’ve really enjoyed this video however the highlights are the GR4 flying into the sunset and the GR4 coming in with wings fully swept with re-heat selected before executing an aggressive high elevated G pull at the end. I cannot help but feel a bit emotional at the end of the video with the GR4 heading towards the sunset and the last clip.
Fabulous footage of an awesome aircraft that has served us with distinction. I thought the sunset shot was the icing on the cake as the closing shot, but no, the next one was even better! So wish they were keeping one or two flying. We need a cold War jets memorial flight - I would happily donate regularly!
Your footage is absolutely spectacular..this is another iconic aircraft that I was lucky enough to witness during their exercises in Niedersachsen, Germany during the early 80's. Thank you for sharing ❤👌
