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Form 414, my RAF Logbook continues with me leaving Australia and the Hornet unhappily in my rear vision mirror as I was heading back to Blighty and a cold winter in Lincolnshire.  No 229 Operational Conversion Unit was the training unit that would give me my first taste of the Mighty Fin, the Swing Wing Super Jet, Mother Riley’s Cardboard Aeroplane otherwise known as the Air Defence Variant of the Tornado.

Not just a British aircraft, the Tornado was a project involving Germany and Italy as well.

A cutaway of the ADV Tornado

Just some of the multitude of limitations that Tornado pilots were required to memorise

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