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Tornado F3: A Navigator´s Eye on Britain´s Last Interceptor
David Gledhill
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Description for Tornado F3: A Navigator´s Eye on Britain´s Last Interceptor
Hardcover. The much troubled yet iconic Tornado F3 is here scrutinised by a best- selling author who served as crew in one Num Pages: 288 pages, 123 black and white images, 62 colour photographs. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JWMV3; WGM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 257 x 180 x 25. Weight in Grams: 978.
The Tornado F2 had a troubled introduction to service. Unloved by its crews and procured as a political imperative, it was blighted by failures and was developed to counter a threat that disappeared. Modified rapidly before it could be sent to war, the Tornado F3 eventually matured into a capable weapons system, but despite datalinks and new air-to-air weapons, its poor reputation sealed its fate. The author, a former Tornado F3 navigator, tells the story from an insider's perspective from the early days as one of the first instructors on the Operational Conversion Unit, through its development and operational testing, ... Read more
The Tornado F2 had a troubled introduction to service. Unloved by its crews and procured as a political imperative, it was blighted by failures and was developed to counter a threat that disappeared. Modified rapidly before it could be sent to war, the Tornado F3 eventually matured into a capable weapons system, but despite datalinks and new air-to-air weapons, its poor reputation sealed its fate. The author, a former Tornado F3 navigator, tells the story from an insider's perspective from the early days as one of the first instructors on the Operational Conversion Unit, through its development and operational testing, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Fonthill Media
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Toadsmoor Road, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781553077
SKU
V9781781553077
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99-50
About David Gledhill
David Gledhill trained as a navigator and flew the Phantom and Tornado F3 on squadrons and as an instructor. Eventually becoming the executive officer on the Tornado Operational Conversion Unit, he also commanded No. 1435 Flight in the Falkland Islands. He was responsible for many of the development programmes and operational testing of the Tornado F3, both in the MOD ... Read more
Reviews for Tornado F3: A Navigator´s Eye on Britain´s Last Interceptor
a nice completion of your book case. I join in completely with the conclusion in the review of The Phantom in Focus (the same author) namely one of the better books about aviation and written in a fascinating style.
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