Cottesmore Family Days

RAF Cottesmore Tri-National Tornado Training Establishment (TTTE) Looking Back (to my pre-digital camera days) 1984, 1993, 1995 and 1996

A brief photo-report using my slides taken during a base visits in 1984, 1993 and 1995. Officially opened on January 29, 1981 the Tri-National Tornado Training Establishment (TTTE) was tasked with training pilots from the RAF, Luftwaffe, German Navy and Italian Air Force on the new jointly developed Panavia Tornado which was coming into service. With the reduction of Tornado student pilot training the TTTE closed in 1999.

Tornado GR.1 (ZA602 'B-17').

Left to right: Tornado IDS (43+23 'G-34' 43+29 'G-35' and 43+25 'G-75').

August 1993

Tornado IDS(T) (MM55005 'I-45').

Left to right: Tornado IDS (43+01 'G-20', 43+15 'G-31' and 43+06 'G-25').

Left to right: Tornado IDS(T)s (MM55005 'I-45' and MM55000 'I-42').

Left to right: Tornado GR.1s (ZA352 'B-04' and ZA320 'B-01').

June 1995

Tornado GR.1 (ZA560) TTTE Special for the 1995 display season.

Left to right: Tornado IDS (43+03 'G-22' and 43+32 'G-73') and Tornado GR.1s (ZA361 'B-57' and ZA359 'B-55').

June 1996

Tornado GR.1 (ZA321 'B-58') TTTE.

Left to right: Tornado GR.1s (ZA321 'B-58' and ZA357 'B-05').

Left to right: Tornado GR.1s (ZA602 'B-17') and Tornado IDS (MM7003 'I-93').