Great interview and brought back huge memories as I was crewed with Adam on all those Gulf War sorties he eloquently shared. One thing I'd like to correct is Adam described himself as an "average" navigator.. utter tosh! He was the best crew mate I could have wanted, always professional and immensely competent, and simply a top bloke!
Absolutely loved this, my cousin was out in Dhahran with the F3s so I found this very interesting. Massive respect to Adam and all the guys that served out there 👏
Absolutely fascinating. Particularly interesting that the formation had the discretion to hit the taxiways (rather than the runway) to meet the objective of the Tasking Order. There really are very few published aircrew recollections of Op Granby and this is a classic!
A wonderful 2 part interview, with great insight to the workings of Tornado though Desert Storm, A Humble and well presented interview. many thanks to Adam Robinson
Superb interview, an honest, laconic and dry view of events 30 years ago. Adam’s pilot in GW1 is a good friend of mine, so interesting to hear his back seater’s memories.
Adam is a fantastic bloke and I really enjoyed both parts of this interview. Can’t wait to hear his thoughts on the Chinook, and would always be happy to hear more from him on the Tornado.
I flew B-1Bs as a weapon system officer (navigator) and the differences between the flying terminology and cockpit communications despite the common language is fascinating.
For those who wonder how they designed the runway submunitions, for certain concrete, read about Brixmis. Litteraly Nato guys driving up to the WarPac runways and hammer a chunck out of it. Not joking.
Great interview and brought back huge memories as I was crewed with Adam on all those Gulf War sorties he eloquently shared. One thing I'd like to correct is Adam described himself as an "average" navigator.. utter tosh! He was the best crew mate I could have wanted, always professional and immensely competent, and simply a top bloke!
Shifty! Great to see you mate. As always, you’re too kind. I definitely owe you for looking after me so well 30 years ago.
@@adamrobinson1903 Adam you owe me nothing...any debt is mutual and we were a perfect team and combination of characters, skills and daring-do!
@@adamrobinson1903 Really enjoyed your narrative. Thank you for sharing.
Great episode. Well done chaps.
Thank you!
two of my favourite aviation interviewers in the same thread. Love both your shows!
@@ghostdog688 Cheers!
Absolutely loved this, my cousin was out in Dhahran with the F3s so I found this very interesting. Massive respect to Adam and all the guys that served out there 👏
Thank you Adam Robinson. Great talk.
Great interview. It's good that you let him talk instead of constantly interrupting.
Absolutely fascinating. Particularly interesting that the formation had the discretion to hit the taxiways (rather than the runway) to meet the objective of the Tasking Order. There really are very few published aircrew recollections of Op Granby and this is a classic!
A wonderful 2 part interview, with great insight to the workings of Tornado though Desert Storm, A Humble and well presented interview. many thanks to Adam Robinson
Excellent conversation
What a fantastic piece. Well researched, well produced with a lot of honesty in the interview, a fitting way to mark the 30 years. Thanks.
What a brilliant insight to Tornado aircrew in the Gulf War. Brilliant episode
Superb interview, an honest, laconic and dry view of events 30 years ago. Adam’s pilot in GW1 is a good friend of mine, so interesting to hear his back seater’s memories.
Adam is a fantastic bloke and I really enjoyed both parts of this interview. Can’t wait to hear his thoughts on the Chinook, and would always be happy to hear more from him on the Tornado.
I flew B-1Bs as a weapon system officer (navigator) and the differences between the flying terminology and cockpit communications despite the common language is fascinating.
Another outstanding interview! It’s great to get such detail from these amazing sorties.
Thanks, Sim. There are very few recorded interviews from Granby Tornado aircrew, so was pleased to get Adam on tape.
Thanks to both of you. Absolutely fascinating account, and I'm not being sarcastic Adam, honest.
Very hairy situation going in pitch black and getting shot at! Great interview again 👍 keep them coming
Thanks
For those who wonder how they designed the runway submunitions, for certain concrete, read about Brixmis. Litteraly Nato guys driving up to the WarPac runways and hammer a chunck out of it. Not joking.
More raf gulf stuff would be welcome.
Incomprehensible how you can just fly to an airfield and drop gravity bombs.
What, the airfield doesn't have lights nor radar?