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chrisdonaldwsm — Tornado at Leuchars
Published: 2005-12-26 00:00:44 +0000 UTC; Views: 840; Favourites: 18; Downloads: 58
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just cropped the photo and lightened it a tiny bit ... the tornado was moving at about 400-450 knots and did a running break at leuchars airbase, near St Andrews golf course, Scotland. I didn't think i had captured the shot, but i was wrong
comments please
I believe it's an Tornado F.3 111 Sqn
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the tornado is so cool i love the radar used in it aswell as its mission peramiters
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Gotta love jets, specially ones like the Tornado. Swept wings, God I love them!
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Yeah they're pretty Awesome - i was hoping to get to the welsh mountains and valleys to get some shots of them going thru there but i have sadly run out of time
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love the shot! but - a question, if you dont mind... where exactly did u take it form? im a student in dundee, and keep meaning to go visit leuchars to get some shots and never make it... although the base is now closing for a few months, then eurofighter comes!!! woohoo! lol
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I took these from an emergency entrance, it's along the main road to leuchars, so you can see St Andrews Golf Course if you look along the runway.i don't know the road name, but it's sort of as you go into the housing area... theres' normally people there!
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that's a really good photo, nice job cumpari!
i like how u captured the jets underside... it's cool and a diff point of view, not a pic i see of jets often
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Thanks
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hehe yea i bet, afterall, it is a jet...
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Noise is always a good thing. In the event your ordnance fails you can still scare the buggers to death.
Alas, I'm 2 inches too tall to squeeze into a tornado, looks like JSF or rotary for me
Awesome shot mate.
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dude 2 inches, that HAS to suck! i would cry
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The main issue would be ejecting. I'd lose my knees on the console, which sucks a tad.
I blame the same people who design all public transport vehicles in the UK. If we've learned one thing by using buses, it's that jockeys shouldn't design seats for real people. lol
Great gallery by the way
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lol.. yea that does kinda suck a 'little' bit !!
whatever route you go, hope you do well!!
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I don't mind noise, to be honest.. but imagine how much fuel is wasted making noise when it could be used to move the jet?
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true, true, but you NEED noise because of combustion
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Noise can be contained, mostly
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nice pic, i see them fly past my house all the time...probably from a different squadron. when i ever take my camera out to capture them i'm always too late
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Mmmm, Tornado. I like this - good backlighting. I think Tony Scott might have a job for you.
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Tony Scott? ? ? Job ...
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Tony Scott, directed Top Gun, huge fan of backlighting.
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oh yeaaa 
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Great shot. Gonna come in handy when I build the model of this bird for weathering the belly.
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Funny enopugh this and the jaguar are two of my favorite planes. Dont know what it is about them, some special quality lol. Nice shot!
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fast loud and proud pilots maybe?
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I wouldn't say the speed or piolts :-p. I've never even seen one of these things in flight!! (They dont have many of those in the US :-p. Even fewer next to a large F-16 base lol)
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i'm not suprised
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damn that thing must have parted your hair, lol. Great shot
Buzz -
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yea, it was kinda like that, i might have it on video somwhere.. when i get a firewire cable, i might upload it.. but it certainly weren't going slow!!
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wings swept back, must have been going at a hell of a speed, and you must have broken you neck to get it at that angle
infact why was it flying over you?
if you really want to improve it, on a blue sky day, with the odd cloud, just put the sky into photo shop with the multiply effect and it adds alot more colour, not sure if it would work here though.
also then it is modefication.
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we were up at leuchars, and this particular plane had been flying throught the loch we were staying on.. and decided he would do a running break down the runway.. so he did .. and luckily i got this ..
i know what you mean about the sky, its' quite a pain to getit right..
thanks for the fave
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Thank you, thanks for the fave
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Thanks, that T-birds shot's pretty cool too
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