Landing Royal Air Force Panavia Tornado.
The Panavia Tornado is a multi-role fighter aircraft. It is equipped with advanced equipment and sensors that make it capable of carrying out day and 'night penetration missions at very low altitudes in all kinds of weather conditions.
The Tornado is equipped with swing wings. Because of its role, it was necessary for the aircraft to have good flight characteristics at high and low speeds. At low speeds, the wings are straight and at high speed, the wings swing backwards to form a delta wing.
This picture was taken on 27 March 2017 during exercise Frisian Flag at Leeuwarden Air Base.
I am Jaap van den Berg and photography has become a great passion of mine since 2010. Since then I travel all over the world to take pictures of military aircrafts. But besides aircraft I also love to photograph other subjects like landscapes, architecture, flowers, animals, .. Read more…