The Tornado is the RAF’s first variable-geometry aircraft. Built by a consortium from Britain, Germany and Italy known as Panavia headquartered in Munich, Germany. This volume of Concord's excellent series features photographs by Ian Rental, photographer for over 30 years specializing in military aviation and contributor to magazines that include Scale Models, Airfix Magazine, Aircraft Illustrated, Air International, Air Pictorial, AirFrame, Carnets de Vol, Histories Vraies de Aviation, Flugzeug, and Jet and Prop.
Concord Color Series #4016
96 pages, 294 color photographs. A superb photographic account of the world's frontline air defense/interdiction/strike aircraft-the Tornado. The Tornado made headlines during the 1991 Gulf War, gaining fame and popularity with the RAF and Italian Air Force. Today, the UK, Italy, Germany and Sandi Arabia are the only Tornado operators, and each squadron of these four air forces that used the Tornado are documented in explicit color photos, with lots of air-to air photography.
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