Tornado GR1 Navigator in Combat | Mal Craghill (In-Person Part 1)

Former RAF Tornado GR1 nav, Mal Craghill, shares how he became a Tonka nav, his flying training, flying on large exercises, and being deployed to the Gulf for Op Granby, all wrapped up with some cracking stories.
PS Mal also lets us know if aircrew get a “lunch hour”!
Enjoy
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[@matthayward7889]

Love Tornado, love the GR1, love hearing from the back seaters. Awesome!

[@gitfoad8032]

"Are you sure you dropped them?"

[@davidsmith8997]

Those early days of GW1 were pretty hairy for low-level flights!

[@malcraghill7]

Weren't they just!

[@bjjace1]

as always. Fantastic interview

[@Aircrewinterview]

Cheers

[@bill8784]

Thank you for the interview.

[@fst-timer7107]

Good stuff.
I'm pretty sure I had those exact decals on a 1:72 I made as a kid!

[@GamerFromSpace]

I find it amazing that I lived near by before university and saw this exact plane in the muesuem

[@thefrecklepuny]

Those pilots in the AR5 kit look like Star Wars TIE fighter pilots! Great interview as ever.

[@Mark_Bickerton]

The jet Provost... I hated them. I was an RAF Fireman in the early eighties, RAF Brawdy... flew Hawks and Hunters, both beautiful aircraft. We would often have visiting aircraft and it was almost always a treat to see them... ALMOST fcuking jet provosts, they were all mouth and no trousers. You hear this loud as fcuk plane taking off, you run to see what exotic beast is taking to the air and... it's this slow a fcuk, insanely loud piece of crap... god I hated them :)

[@anselmdanker9519]

Very interesting interview. 😊 thank you for your service Mal.

[@ericmiddleton8367]

Fantastic interview!

[@Aircrewinterview]

Glad you enjoyed it, Eric!

[@andrewcox4386]

Is that Phantom really parked on gravel?

[@malcraghill7]

It is. Don't worry, it's never going to fly again!

[@andrewcox4386]

@@malcraghill7 No, but they might want to move it around some time without having to dig it out...

[@joeds3775]

@@andrewcox4386 concrete topped with gravel

[@peterusher1964]

I sent a link to this to my cousin. He informs me Godders was a mate of his, they were on the same course at RAF Valley for a while.

[@Aircrewinterview]

Think you might have posted on the wrong video.

[@jjsmallpiece9234]

His training knowledge etc is 30yrs out of date. Jet Provosts and Dominies went out of service years ago

[@malcraghill7]

I know, I was in the RAF for 30 years. I was being interviewed about my time in the training system.

[@chrispfuhl5822]

Am I wrong when I say this channel became a Tornado channel? Miss the different fighters big time

[@xfatsx1991]

Yes. Literally the last 8 vids are different aircraft

[@davidsmith8997]

@@xfatsx1991 What he (Ser) said. You're (Chris) very wrong!

[@imperialinquisition6006]

Many recent and previous videos have been about a variety of different aircraft. I imagine there is a lot of tornado content because there are many people that served on them, often in the past, and the aircraft is now out of service. Which makes it easier as opposed maybe to finding someone to talk about say, the F35, even though they can’t really talk in as much depth, but I don’t know.

[@quikstop4347]

Pppffftt… it’s Mike’s channel, he can put on it whatever he likes! Besides, didn’t he once say the Tornado was his favourite aircraft? I like the Tornado too 🤤