Aug. 14, 2024, marks the 50th anniversary of the Panavia Tornado’s first flight, ... first with the Tornado GR1 and later also with the upgraded GR4 at its operational debut.

Mal enjoyed a 30-year RAF career, which included navigating Tornado GR1 and GR4 bombers, an exchange tour in America on the F15E, and numerous operational tours dating back to the 1991 Gulf War.

The Panavia Tornado GR.1 remains a symbol of its enduring legacy in the Royal Air Force, with a career spanning from its late 1970s debut through to the early 2000s.

A suspected tornado damaged buildings and aircraft at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, home to the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force.

JOIN an RAF veteran for a personal account of the force's biggest and busiest deployed Tornado base during the 1991 Gulf War this Valentine's Day… ...