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By Jon Lake details 28th February 2019

… reducing operating costs, this year may be the year of the RAF Typhoon Force. Typhoon FGR4s ZK309 and ZK340 loaded with … early February and retirement in March. On January 30, the RAF issued a video showing what was described as the first … GR4 unit based at RAF Marham, which will stand up at RAF Lossiemouth, Moray from April 19, equipped with Tranche 1 …

21st March 2019

… celebrating the career of the Tornado GR at the end of its RAF service, Thomas Newdick speaks to two of the final … brace of Storm Shadow cruise missiles. Jamie Hunter As the RAF’s Tornado GR4 Force (TGRF) returned from its tenure in … RAF Brüggen. After eight years in Germany, he moved to RAF Lossiemouth, Scotland, where he spent the next 21 years, …

By DENIS J. CALVERT 14th February 2019

… find all five Shackletons painted with red noses. Back at Lossiemouth, not everyone could see the joke” Being … everyone on No 8 Squadron could see the joke. As an aside, RAF Tristar K1 ZD951 of No 216 Squadron, detached to Riyadh’s … take off, never to return. In August that year, the RAF was to start instructor training on the MRA4, and finally …

18th October 2018

… TYPHOON FGR4s from No II (Army Co-operation) Squadron at RAF Lossiemouth, Scotland, deployed to Thumrait air base in … the next day. An E-3D Sentry AEW1 from No 8 Squadron at RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire, also took part in the …

By Thomas Newdick 21st February 2019

… crews active on the Tornado GR Force. Jamie Hunter As the RAF prepared to call time on its Tornado GR4 fleet, the jet … debut in the 1991 Gulf War. The Tornado first entered RAF service in GR1 guise back in 1982 and initially trained … Conversion Unit, No XV (Reserve) Squadron at RAF Lossiemouth, Scotland, in February 2017. The Tornado …

18th October 2018

… THE RAF’s initial P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft will be delivered to RAF Kinloss, Scotland rather than the type’s main operating base at nearby RAF Lossiemouth. The decision has been taken to avoid disruption …

24th January 2019

… missiles on its fuselage weapons stations. Royal Air Force Lossiemouth The Venezuelan defence minister was amongst … airto- air missile took place. Two jets launched from RAF Lossiemouth, Elgin, Scotland, to investigate, at the … They were supported by a Voyager tanker that launched from RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire. Chief of the Air Staf Air …

17th January 2019

… No II (Army Co-operation) Squadron markings, departs Lossiemouth on a QRA mission armed with Meteor and ASRAAM. Crown Copyright RAF TYPHOON FGR4s launched from RAF Lossiemouth, Scotland on the morning of December 10 for a …

17th January 2019

… French Air Force Transall C-160, R217/64-GQ, visited RAF Lossiemouth on December 16 in support of a French Navy … P-8A, 168438, was one of two VP-26 which diverted to RAF Mildenhall on December 15 owing to strong winds at RAF …

By Jamie Hunter 7th February 2019

… inside the new maintenance and final finishing facility at RAF Marham. Jamie Hunter Armed to the teeth — this Tranche 3 RAF Typhoon FGR4 carries Paveway IV and Brimstone, two … as a Tornado unit in March and immediately re-form at RAF Lossiemouth. It will ly Tranche 1 Typhoons spared from early …

By Thomas Newdick 17th January 2019

… desert while deployed on Operation Telic – the youngest RAF Tornado pilot involved in the 2003 war against Saddam … IX(B) Squadron operating from Ali al-Salem in Kuwait. The RAF deployed around 32 Tornado GR4/4As to the Persian Gulf … along with others from No 617 Squadron ‘Dambusters’ at Lossiemouth, Scotland. Among the cadre at Ali al-Salem, only …

9th January 2019

… first flight on 4 October 1974 and was delivered to the RAF the following month. It initially flew with No 226 Operational Conversion Unit at Lossiemouth, and then moved to No 54 Squadron at Coltishall. … Squadron guise. On 31 January 1994 the machine flew from Lossiemouth to Shawbury where it went into storage with 4,260 …

20th September 2018

… taxies past. Dr István Toperczer TWO TYPHOONS from the RAF’s No 1 (Fighter) Squadron at RAF Lossiemouth, Scotland, participated in the Flying Sword …

17th January 2019

… RAF TORNADO TRIBUTE Having led a detachment hunting Scud … racing to assist troops – began in tranquil Rutland at RAF Cottesmore. As a flight lieutenant, Gale flew a Tornado … Operational Conversion Unit (OCU), 15(R) Sqn at RAF Lossiemouth, Moray, from April to July and involved 62 hours …

By DAVID NICHOLAS 14th February 2019

… when L7307 was delivered from No 46 Maintenance Unit at Lossiemouth by Fg Off Geoff Hall on 18 March 1941. Three more … July 1948 a state of emergency was declared in Malaya. The RAF strength in theatre gradually increased, and in March … of bombs, so sometimes the Lincolns had to fly up to RAF Khormaksar in Aden to bring back additional weapons. A …