ZD711/079 about to release the brakes as the lead aircraft, ZD849/110, is already thundering down RWY-23. On 17 April 2017 both aircraft took part in a farewell flight (as 'Poker-51' Flight) over several Scottish stations, including the Tain Ranges.
Conditions weren't the greatest to capture the squadrons last operational Tornado sortie out of RAF Lossiemouth but there was the great opportunity for some vapour.
079 'smoking in' after some touch-and-goes on this hot thursday afternoon. The last QWI-course on Tornado is now run at Lossie, with final Tornado ops scheduled here to end by March 2017.