For those who don't know the route the GR4s took, or the Mach Loop itself. They start from RAF Marham then its W to Peterborough and Stamford followed by a general WSW routing to mid-Wales (LFA7). They enter the Loop from the SW, with a right turn over Machynlleth then a run up the Dyfi valley to Dinas Maddwy. They then follow the A470 to just short of Dollegllau, followed by a left turn and then over the pass to Tal-y-Llyn with Cader Idris on the right. Then its another left turn at Corris Corner, over the pass and down the valley to Machynlleth. I assume they flew the southern leg of the Loop again, because the next thing we see is the exit out over Llyn Tegid (Bala Lake) with the snow covered peaks of the Arenigs on the left. Then its the practice approach into RAF Valley followed by the run into the circuit and then the landing at RAF Marham. And yes, this video did bring back a few memories...

...and THANK YOU, THANK YOU for no music!!!! I love jet noise! Great video!

I've watched and photographed these from vantage points at the 'Loop'. Absolutely amazing experience when these boys came through. R.I.P. Tornado, what an aircraft.

Love the Tonka. Not the most glamorous but it is a sledgehammer if needs be. This will go down as one of the best multi-role combat aircraft of all time

I believe in progression and the importance of necessity to keep ahead, but the Tornado will surely be missed by many RAF staff and British public alike. A true classic to be placed along the echelons with planes like the Lightning and the Spitfire surely..

Lucky enough to have had a back seat flight through the Mach loop in one of these, back in the mid 90’s. G-74 out of RAF Cottesmore. The most awesome thing I have ever done.

The RAF aircraft of my youth whilst living in Cumbria in the early 90s when low flying was an hourly occurrence. The jet stood the test of time that's for sure from the early GR1 variant and finally the GR4. Now we have the Typhoon and what can only be described as a dieing low level system in the UK.

The Tornado is just pure beauty

My wife and I (-live near Memphis, US-) were on a walking trail near picturesque Lake Windermere UK in 2010 or so. I barely detected the distant, faint but Very high-freq. shriek, immed. told Lucy to "Cover your Ears!" as she froze......my reactions are quite good. The beautiful Tornado passed maybe 500 yards away. What a treat for this (now) retired transport pilot!

Awesome Jet, spent 3 years on 17(F) Black Hand squadron at RAF Bruggen when they phased out the jags and put these bad boys in their place.

Thank you all for making and posting these fantastic videos for others to watch. phenomenal.

Aircraft painter enjoyed every minute doing Sqd Markings

8:36 to 8:55 Awesome video and piloting skills! Love the roar and howl of those engines, instead of some whacky music! Thanks for sharing with us!👌👍

A Great sturdy workhorse of the skies

Thanks guys for the excellent video. Awesome jet fighter.

Fantastic footage. Thanks so much for the effort taken to upload this. And I agree with other commentators; so much better for no annoying, pointless music track overlay.

What a brilliant video. Closest I'll get to being in a Tonka ! Thank you 👍🏻

Great memories of these flying really low through hills where I worked was perfect to see pilot's in the cockpit early 80s really impressive to see them so low

Superb footage - Thanks for sharing!!!

Awsome footage , congratulations

I will always miss the Tonkas, what an aircraft, a total beast

Visiting the RAF museum in Hendon in London 2 years ago had the chance to go right up to a Tornado touch it and the controls inside such a remarkable aircraft.

I love these planes I remember when my dad took me out of high school to go and see them at an airshow now that I'm winding down for retirement I'm impressed that they are still flying

Absolutely 💯great stuff thanks for sharing 👍🏼

Love the video. Thank you !! From Ky USA .

I was a student GA PPL pilot in a C172 back a few years when asking for a basic service from Marham with my instructor was told traffic right to left 500ft above. "Visual traffic..." Three Tornado GR4s in formation I thought I could almost touch, but was probably a half mile away. Never forgot that experience, never to be seen again. Conningsby, Marham, Lakenheath, we have great RAF fields in our part of the country and most still Class G airspace.

Thanks for posting. Exciting stuff.

In 80's and 90's growing up in south central Scotland i used to see these come down from Lossiemouth every day, low, roaring past, following the roads and traffic as practice. They were loud AF !! Miss all that since i moved to Australia

A fitting tribute to a superb combat jet. Thank you for this. 👍🏻

I think iv seen more fighter jet variants here in the uk than anywhere else possible in the world, these low flight exercise areas are insane the uk, the gfa for this area stretches all the way into the scottish borders, at Duns, on the east coast border region, I saw fighter sweeps roll in from the border, everything from gripens, jaguars, tornados, f15's, f16's, f18;s, the eurofighter, the new f35 and two raptors, the gfa here in the uk is run as a school of excellence, and running these flight paths over and over increases a pilots skill levels no end, and when you see a squadron roll into a glen at mach 1.2, its just simply awe inspring, I have been on the mountains for near 30 years, and have probably seen over 100 aircraft variations run these flight paths, and I cant wait to see the new tempest in action, thats one jet I am very excited to see running the gfa at full pelt, my number one experience was at the preston loop near duns, where I had 3 sepcat jaguars turn the top of the hill at 50 feet, all 3 were banked, and doing a full 8g turn, it nearly blew me of my feet......

Love the Torandos. Saw 2 flying over Wales, and their wings open up as they banked hard. Was only a kid at the time, was the first time I'd even seen a fight jet, so it stays with you.

Awesome views.

What an amazing experience, had the absolute pleasure of working on one of these at raf st.athan, best time of my life ❤❤

This was my dream aircraft. If I'd made fighter pilot, this would've been my choice. Low, fast, lofting bombs. Awesome.

Magnificent!

Great flight, front seat would have been fab. An amazing and very capable aircraft to this day despite being some 40 years old! They rarely, according to my friend who was an RAF airframe and propulsion tech, get pushed too hard these days to limit stress on the airframe but they can still deliver the goods.

Remember driving up to Ingleton in my wagon on the A683 when one of these Tonka's flew right over my head from behind😂😂😂😂 .....did'nt hear him coming...but Jesus I knew about it when he'd passed me!!!!!!!! The words "Barry Sheens" springs to mind.......

Amazing

Superb!

Great film I live very close and recognise a lot of the area your flying over around Machynlleth and Dyfi estuary etc 👍

Absolute Legends the pilots of the RAF

that was awesome , really miss the tornado . merry Christmas

I live not to far from Windermere in the lake district and used to see these guys and girls fly past all the time. Best was when a group of at least 10 were flying chasing each other when two flew over my van at less than 200 feet. I S**t myself they were that low, but oh man what a sight, truly amazing flying...

Can't believe the RAF grounded them. Great video.

Good old Tonka! I used to weigh those in the 90s at BAe.

Just prior to the gulf war,heading down from Aberdeen driving a truck,this thing aligned with the dual carriageway above me,nearly ended up on the grass verge,couldn’t take my eyes off it.

Great to see and hear the tornado in her natural environment..I never got to see a raf tornado fly sadly one of my top 5 fastmovers .

Awesome

I once spent a week working in a glorified shed at the end of the flight line at Marham. Every time a Tornado took off (frequent) my chest would pulsate and my tea cup would vibrate off of my desk if I wasn't quick enough to catch it. A very dry week!

I always thought the Tornado with that massive rudder should be able to do 360’s! 😂😂😂

you can stick your Typhoons and Raptors, THIS is a proper machine. Noisey, Smelly and the black reek that would come out the back...

Great Jet!

God I love the Tornado, saw it at Nellis many years ago.

Well, that was a genuine treat, when the RAF actually was an airforce. I was very impressed. There was a lot to flying that,... We're leading edge flaps and rear operated manually?

Does anyone else remember Tornado the best and most realistic PC flight sim of the early '90s? I would spend hours using it. The flight manual was very concise and the graphics were phenomenal for the time.

Real tough toys for real tough boys,,,, TONKA!!

Back in the 90's these things would nearly take the chimney off our roof in SW Scotland. Seemed to stop flying up there in the years after.

what a ride!!!

Love the Tornado

Fantastic ....Tornado it's number one

Still a badass jet!

Snowdonia is beautiful!

L'un des meilleurs jet Européen de tous les temps 👍👋 Panavia

This has to be one of the best ground attack aircraft ever 🇬🇧👍🏼

It's a giant grey flying car with missiles, how the F do we do it...humans are incredible :)

I agree with your comment I love this plane,I bought a 1/48 model it’s brilliant 🎉🎉😢

Wow flight with the Tornado!!

What a brilliant piece of kit, the taxpayers of UK, Deutschland, Italy and Saudi had their money well spent with this aircraft.

Beautiful - nearly as beautiful as the Buccaneer.

And I thought this was supposed to be a low-flying exercise! Looks more like a medium level cross country to this old Hunter/Harrier driver. Only joking. great video.

Used to work with these back in early 90s. Still prefer the buccaneer or jaguar.

Jet blast..👍

Es espectacular

Nothing looks better through the loop.

When was this?

That's a pretty excellent film.... is film the right word? Upload? Anyway... thank you for posting......

I've been lucky enough to fly the Mach Loop in the back of a Red Arrow and fly in the back of a Tornado GR4 twice. The Tonka was a big heavy bird towards the end but chrikey she was good at this low level stuff.

Where can we book a trip out in one, and can we fly them ourselves

Damn shame the Torny went obsolete. Beautiful aircraft looking awesome with its shark fin over there.

Worked on them great aircraft could do with them now !

Very cool video -did notice a lot of overbanking though more than I remember seeing in other cockpit videos of the loop - did you do more than one lap or is it that there are more valleys and twists than I thought?. Not complaining at all of course as it was very exhilarating to watch :)

Didn't look at discription, wanted to spot the landmarks. Entry to Machloop from southern edge, west to east up the valley. Then spotted RAF Valley (used to live there). Finally, approach to Marham, Marham view from east of the airfield!

Those must be some noisy neighborhoods down there! Lol!

Awesome, thanks for this, daft question, how annoying it must have been to have a fly trapped in the cockpit with them, wonder how many "G" a fly can sustain , and if the fly gets smeared against the glass in the first 7g corner :P

What does "M OVR" mean on a switch at 08.09?

Looks like a lot of fun and very exciting. Disappointed it was shot with a potato.

tornadoes worked with jaguars, the sepcats would carry the laser targeting, and the gr4's would carry in the jdams, this combo was very effective in iraq, especially given these guys excelled in flying under radar

SWEET

Did that Tornado's tail lose a panel?

yeah is good

Красивая машина.

Question for those in the know - why's the landing gear down from 11:05 then back up at 13:30? Is this 'diversion approach'? If so does that equate to a go-around type scenario, or last minute 'cancel the landing, we're going somewhere else' sort of situation?

Beautiful ! (I don't know what else I can say, really). -So...how about we comment on my comment like this: "that was succinct, actually" 😁 Cheers from Iceland -K. 🇮🇸

darum heist der die das Tornado "das Brett". Stabiler Flug im Tiefflug....

Did you go speed of sound?

I love the Mach Loop and have some great memories of it. You’d have thought, though, with “Mach Loop” in the video’s title, that the camera would have been pointing to the left, given that nearly every turn in the ‘Loop is a left hander. It’s a good video, sure, but I wouldn’t have minded seeing less clouds in the ‘Loop. The air to air footage is good and it’s nice not to have the video wrecked by shite music!

👍👍👍👍

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Do you mean to ell me that you actually got paid for having so much fun!!!