Tornados over Greece

[+ValAstur]

Panavia Tornado GR.1, 330 Moira (Keravnos), 1995

[+EricJ]

Looks nice, but you should dirty them up, as if they're well used. I mean I don't know why (though cynically I could guess) they don't clean them, but still nice job

[+daddyairplanes]

 lookin good

but i want the back story man. CFE transfers like the Turkish RF-4Es? Greeks go with Panavia rather than General Dynamics in the 80s? how'd we get here man?!?!?!?!??!

[+Nightshade/PR]

The 1st Tornado I ever saw was a Marineflieger IDS barreling down the runway in Germany some years ago. It was absolutely beautiful and that has remained my favorite livery for it. But dam*$%^d if this Aegean Ghost isn't the cat's whiskers!!!

[Wrench]

at first I thought this was a weather report, given all the climate issues we've been having lately!!! 

 

nice one! I agree, the Ghost scheme is cool!

[+Viggen]

That's quite the looker! I agree with DA, we need some backstory for the Hellenic Tonka

[+ValAstur]

21 hours ago, daddyairplanes said:

 lookin good

but i want the back story man. CFE transfers like the Turkish RF-4Es? Greeks go with Panavia rather than General Dynamics in the 80s? how'd we get here man?!?!?!?!??!

 

7 hours ago, Viggen said:

That's quite the looker! I agree with DA, we need some backstory for the Hellenic Tonka

Hey folks, how 'bout this one:

The fulfilment of the Peace Xenia I contract, signed with the Reagan administration in 1987, got delayed short before the first aircraft could be handed over to the HAF. As a reason for this delay, the Pentagon stated important matters of foreign security, since the Soviet Union (and the Warsaw Pact) started to show significant signs of wear and the beginning emancipation of the eastern block countries. Therefore, the Pentagon wanted to use the aircraft to reinforce overseas units with them. In exchange, the HAF got offered a significant discount for the next contract, Peace Xenia II. Greece, not willing to wait, got in touch with Panavia via the german ministry for foreign affairs.

Panavia offered the HAF 36 Tornado GR.1 from a cancelled order, partly produced, which could be delivered in a short period of time. The HAF accepted the conditions for the aircraft and was able to introduce the first sixteen GR.1H in January 1989, assigning them to the 330 Moira Keravnos (Lightning). The remaining 20 aircraft got delivered during the following 18 months.

Edited July 24, 2024 by ValAstur

[+allenjb42]

Beautiful skin ValAstur. Hope it gets released.

Maybe I'm just hardwired, but to my eye the roundels would look better in same fuselage and wing positions as the RAF GR.1. 

[+ValAstur]

1 hour ago, allenjb42 said:

Beautiful skin ValAstur. Hope it gets released.

Maybe I'm just hardwired, but to my eye the roundels would look better in same fuselage and wing positions as the RAF GR.1. 

Thank you. Well, the roundel positions can still be adjusted.

If it gets released depends on @guuruu being ok with it, since he is not part of the Freeware Licensing Agreement.

[+guuruu]

Sure, you can publish it .

[+ValAstur]

On 24.7.2024 at 1:18 AM, EricJ said:

Looks nice, but you should dirty them up, as if they're well used. I mean I don't know why (though cynically I could guess) they don't clean them, but still nice job

 

22 hours ago, allenjb42 said:

Beautiful skin ValAstur. Hope it gets released.

Maybe I'm just hardwired, but to my eye the roundels would look better in same fuselage and wing positions as the RAF GR.1. 

Changed the roundel positions and added some heavier weathering to it:

[+EricJ]

Looking good ValAstur, the additional weathering makes it look worn out and a typical Greek jet.

[alfa2]

A true what-if and almost "a real" story, since The Panavia Tornado was in fact very close to get HAF's roundels...

[+ValAstur]

23 hours ago, allenjb42 said:

Beautiful skin ValAstur. Hope it gets released.

Maybe I'm just hardwired, but to my eye the roundels would look better in same fuselage and wing positions as the RAF GR.1. 

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