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Panavia Tornado IDS 3-view drawing. Data from International Warbirds: An Illustrated Guide to World Military Aircraft, 1914–2000, [56] Tornado, Modern Fighting Aircraft [369] General characteristics. Crew: 2; Length: 16.72 m (54 ft 10 in) Wingspan: 13.91 m (45 ft 8 in) at 25° sweep; Swept wingspan: 8.60 m (28 ft 3 in) swept at 67° sweep
Casing nails – have a head that is smoothly tapered, in comparison to the "stepped" head of a finish nail. When used to install casing around windows or doors, they allow the wood to be pried off later with minimal damage when repairs are needed, and without the need to dent the face of the casing in order to grab and extract the nail.
English: An air-to-air right side view of two Italian Air Force Tornado aircraft of 36º Stormo, 156º Gruppo, participating in an inflight refueling during NATO exercise Dragon Hammer '87, an air, land and sea operation involving U.S., Italian and Turkish forces.
Outbreak produced the Candlestick Park tornado, which was an extremely violent F5 tornado or tornado family that killed 58 people and traveled 202.5 mi (325.9 km) across Mississippi and Alabama. It is one of the longest such paths on record and one of only four official F5 tornadoes to hit Mississippi.
The Tri-National Tornado Training Establishment (TTTE) was a multinational air unit based at RAF Cottesmore in Rutland, England, from 1981 to 1999. It performed training on the Panavia Tornado for the Royal Air Force (RAF), Luftwaffe, Marineflieger and Italian Air Force. Initially, pilots received four weeks of training on the ground, followed ...
Strong mesocyclones show up as adjacent areas of yellow and blue (on other radars, bright red and bright green), and usually indicate an imminent or occurring tornado. The history of tornado research spans back centuries, with the earliest documented tornado occurring in 200 and academic studies on them starting in the 18th century. This is a ...
The Tornado could be fitted with a pair of much larger pods on the shoulder pylons, each containing both types of munition. [1] Each JP233 as fitted to the Tornado was divided into a rear section with 30 SG-357 runway cratering submunitions, while the front section carried 215 HB-876 anti-personnel mines. Both types of submunitions were ...
Tornado Weapons Conversion Unit (TWCU) at Honington, flying GR1. Redesignated 45(R) Sqn, operated between 1 August 1980 – January 1984. [29] [43] Tornado Operational Evaluation Unit at Boscombe Down, flying GR1. Redesignated as SAOEU, operated between 1 September 1983 – 5 October 1987. [41] Saudi Arabia