What you’re actually seeing is a reheat drain caused by overpressure of fuel that has not been ignited. This pressure build is caused by cancelling reheat, causing the system to automatically dump/vent/exhaust the excess fuel through an outlet under the exhaust. Pretty standard stuff but looks odd to the general public.
@@panicwarning4016 I don't remember that from my RB199 course, but I do remember that the throttle lever in reheat controls the Aj or nozzle area during lightup and subsequently fuel flow follows nozzle area as the reheat is modulated from min to max. That maintains the optimum nozzle area for maximum thrust and correct back pressure through the engine core to prevent surge or compressor stall. Mind you it made a big bang when occasionally the engine surged in reheat during maintenance engine ground runs because the adjustment pots on the MECU sometimes got noisy and caused erratic operation!
Looks like a partially blocked hot shot injector which is located in the engine combustion chamber, if this gets blocked then the fuel for reheat will not get lit. The vapour out of the exhaust is unburnt fuel and the plume below the aircraft is fuel that is dumped overboard when reheat is deselected.
How can a plane look so majestic and beautiful. Must be by far , the most most beautiful plane every build, without a doubt. To bad they were decomissioned , at least i had the pleasure to see them regulary close up
Paul. That. Is. Cool. Worked. For. Champion. Spark. Plugs. In Detroit. Back. In. The. Day liked. THE. Work. And. Factory. But. Was. Called. Back. To. The. Chevy. Plant. Where my. Training. Contract was.
The Tornado always looks unhappy on the ground and also like it always has something to go take care of.... a very serious and industrious aircraft. The F-16, on the other hand, always seems eager and happy. The shark and the dolphin.
If we are pairings animals to jets, the Panavia Tornado would a Sand Tiger shark. Pointy and menacing with a big sweeping vertical stabilizer like the sand tiger's tail. The F-16, original name, the Fighting Falcon is perfect, a bird of pray. Sharp and attentive like a falcon.
Can anyone tell me what function the intake looking protrusion at the bottom the vertical stabilizer on the tornado serves? I can’t find an explanation anywhere.
Working alongside these Tornadoes at the flightline, servicing our F-16's, for many years i thought the refuel receptacle was located behind the radar antenna. They opened up into that compartment after every flight.
Fine British engineering with the afterburner... I mean reheat... That Olympus was sketchy... I mean dodgy... Couldn't tell from this angle or sound what was going on with the rest of the engine. Those Germans had some pretty gutsy Kahuna's to take it like that knowing they might get an afterburner stall at any time.
@@adventurekid9242 Lol so Rolls Royce engines are shit are they, I think you might want to have a look over their record, this could be servicing, a fuel issue, not necessarily anything to do with the engine!
I am surprised that they still flew after those failed afterburner attempts!! Thought for sure that they would abort!!! Cool to watch none the less!! Thanks for sharing!
the one afterburner is normaly enough and the main engine whasnt affected at all but what i think the ignitor for the second afterburner simply dont work after the 3 attempts it works probably the electrodes are somehow dirty or covered with sud dont forgot the tornado stands a longer period ideling at the taxi runway
Samantha Willmer - RB199 uses a hot shot ignition system, not electrodes. Issue can be fouling of the hot shot injector or the system that controls it.
When they came into service they were pretty clean engines compared to J79s and Speys that we saw every day. These days the exhaust looks really dirty.
At 4:40 the right engine looks less bright, orange v.s. yellow. Ignitors or fuel nozzles / fuel flow / pressure ? Do you know that the Tornado has average 60 hrs of maintenance per flight hour? Initially it was 35, now it is 60, due the agening fleet. Want to learn to be an aircraft mechanic? Go to the Luftwaffe. Allways something to do and good meals!
They are going to buy a fleet of typhoons to replace the mighty Tornado. But it was controversial at first since someone suggested F-18. putting at risk lots of jobs.
When the after burner won't light there may be a fuel dilution problem poor fuel quality is most apparent when the fuel has trouble igniting, you could see a vapor coming out of the right engine but no combustion.
all' 83% Aj il DECU cancella la sequenza se cala la pressione nel condotto di scarico. Il carburante nel circuito viene drenato all'esterno per vuotare l'impianto R/H.
The Tornado, if only they design it to be carrier operable, it might be at par with the American F-14Tomcat. Its performance numbers is identical to the Tomcat
Tornado engines do not have a "Spark Plug" for the afterburner. They blow the combustion chamber flame through the turbine to light the afterburner. This technique ist used in order to prevent heat seeking missles from locking on.
@@NutzerYOu No offence, just to understand... There is not enough hot air produced by these two engines to "light a candle" for heat seeking missiles, but a spark plug will do the difference to ruin the pilots' day? Really?
Got really worried about the right engine afterburner. It was letting off a lot of white smoke which I thin is oil and then seemed to suck in those fumes😨😨😨😳
@@Dagowly83 Not exactly, most afterburners, when canceled, dump the manifold through a pencil drain out the bottom of the jet. He didn't get a light and brought the throttle back to retry and it dumped the excess each time. If you noticed, the F-16 does have a pair of AB igniters with which to light the burner.
During the cold War most likely soviet invasion route would have gone straight through germany, hence there was a huge military presence there from many nations, for example read up on the fulda gap history
Well there was nothing wrong with those F-16s at all and the Tornado obviously has AB no light issues as if it really HAD been a problem with the engine they wouldn't have taken off. They would have gone back to idle and vacated the runway via a taxiway. You can see they retried to light the AB several times on that right engine. Somewhat click bait-y on the title there dude.
When i saw the Tornado's ignition failure of the 2. Afterburner....i was like "typical Luftwaffe today". Actually less than 10% of the Luftwaffe's Aircraft is in flying conditions. and not a single Submarine.
Don’t feel bad. The US doesn’t have a sub in flying condition either.
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@Moravcik 25 - same thing the governor of California did, spent the infrastructure budget on legal aid for illegal immigrants. Now California's roads are crumbling and the state is going broke feeding all the illegals.
So much drivel ... Reminds me of two of the stupider headlines one could read in the "news": "Three out of four Eurofighter delivered to the Luftwaffe in 2017 were so defective, they couldnt be used !!!" Well, first of all, the LW had only gotten 4 EFs that year. The „functioning“ one was the last of the regular EF tranche 3. The other 3 were replacements for some aircraft lost in the last 2 decades. As EADS etc had just developed the new mainframe computer for the planned tranche 4, they asked the LW whether they wanted to try it out on these planes as testbeds, to iron out any problems. LW said sure, good idea. Great computers. Much faster than the old ones. Make the aircraft quite a bit deadlier. Only "problem": since the EF often fly in the same airspace as civilian liners, the new EFs with new onboard computers needed first to be certified by the civilian aviation authorities. That takes time (but saves time for the upcoming tranche 4 introduction). During that time, they can only fly in the confines of restricted military airspace (in peacetime, that is). So, in the official reports, they show up as non-operational, as you cant legally fly any operations with them. In sum, the LW got 4 great new aircraft from industry. And the headlines read "Shame! Disgrace! Only 1 out of 4 new EFs are operational!" You can't make that stuff up ... But it all led to the even more ridiculous claim that "In 2018, there were only 4 out of 140 Luftwaffe EF operational !!!!" Oh boy. That's the Bildzeitung for you. And lots of outlets bought that moronic story hook line and sinker. I mean, how stupid can you be, to believe such obvious drivel??? In reality the report by the Bundeswehr the Bild refered to did say 8 planes COMBAT READY at any given time. Bild halved that number and then "forgot" to mention that those planes are the planes of the QRF. They are standing fueled and armed in their sheds at the runway 24/7. 4 in the north, 4 in the south. th-cam.com/video/nOy1pynJe1s/w-d-xo.html The pilots have 12 hours shifts, so at any moment only 4 are on actual standby, which is maybe what Bild tried to refer to. But the other pilots are next door and when a QRF flight goes up, they get woken up, just in case another trouble spot shows up, and their aircraft get readied by the techs (takes 20 min). There are also another 4 EF at each airbase in almost-as-high readyness to replace the QRF ones should one break down. In addition to these 8 national QRF (and 8 reserves), we also had another 4 on 24/7 ready stand by in the Baltics, too, as part of a NATO mission that were conveniently forgotten. Plus another 4 on reserve. th-cam.com/video/q2yaGHrsn3o/w-d-xo.html Makes 24 EFs ready for war within an hour or so. That number, by itself, is bigger than the idiotic 10% claimed above to be "ready to fly", even if one includes the whole Tornado fleet (>90) and moronically assumes none of them can go up ... Evidently, you don't want to keep all your aircraft at such a level of readiness. Doesn't mean that there werent some problems with the EF after years of cuts to the defense bugdet (until Putin invaded Crimea). But in 2018 around 45-50 % of the EF were operational at any time. At the lower end for the older tranche 1 aircraft (38 new tranche 4 replacements planned for the 23-25 timeframe), and at the higher for the newer t2+3 EFs. Thanks to increased military spending (2013: 34 billion EUR, 2020: 50 billion EUR) this has improved to around 70 % for EFs early 2020 pre Corona which is actually a very good number considering that Germany has much higher safety requirements (in peace time) than most other countries. It had dropped to 60 % due to the pandemic preventing some legally required maintenance checks (esp by limiting travel of civilian specialists from Airbus), but numbers are improving again. *** Yes, the Tornados are getting old and are becoming less and less reliable. For them, 50% availability is actually a good number. Which is why they will be replaced soonish with some new EFs and, depending on how the US + German elections go, with 45 Super Hornets/Growlers. *** BTW, all 6 German subs are operational again (and have been for quite a while). Germany will get another 2 improved ones (U212 CD), as soon as Norway finally makes up its mind ... esut.de/en/2020/04/meldungen/20366/aller-guten-dinge-sind-hoffentlich-drei-deutsch-norwegisches-u-bootprojekt-u212cd/
Man, the vertical stabilizer on the Tornado is massive!
The real hero of this video are the brakes on that tornado
Well brakes are supposed to hold the plane back.
more so the tires having enough grip to not slide.
@@sinnystaystxned more the whole gear construction can take the load.
Okay then. The whole plane is amazing or the engines would just fly down the runway leaving the pilot sitting in his cockpit on top of his brakes.
Pain in the arse to set up and fit
What you’re actually seeing is a reheat drain caused by overpressure of fuel that has not been ignited. This pressure build is caused by cancelling reheat, causing the system to automatically dump/vent/exhaust the excess fuel through an outlet under the exhaust. Pretty standard stuff but looks odd to the general public.
Never worked an afterburner system before, thanks for the explanation.
And bleed valves open to avoid complete surge to the first compressor stages.
Thanks for that, was sat wondering why the pilot still lit the pipes and went after what seemed a problematic start.
Ravus Ursi thank you.
@@panicwarning4016 I don't remember that from my RB199 course, but I do remember that the throttle lever in reheat controls the Aj or nozzle area during lightup and subsequently fuel flow follows nozzle area as the reheat is modulated from min to max. That maintains the optimum nozzle area for maximum thrust and correct back pressure through the engine core to prevent surge or compressor stall. Mind you it made a big bang when occasionally the engine surged in reheat during maintenance engine ground runs because the adjustment pots on the MECU sometimes got noisy and caused erratic operation!
Was going to offer my Zippo, but he finally got it lit!
😂🤣🤣
Lmao 😂😂😂
I worked on these beasts at RAF Honington, 9 squadron. We were the first operational GR1 Squadron in the world. Loved them!!
Looks like a partially blocked hot shot injector which is located in the engine combustion chamber, if this gets blocked then the fuel for reheat will not get lit. The vapour out of the exhaust is unburnt fuel and the plume below the aircraft is fuel that is dumped overboard when reheat is deselected.
How can a plane look so majestic and beautiful.
Must be by far , the most most beautiful plane every build, without a doubt.
To bad they were decomissioned , at least i had the pleasure to see them regulary close up
That's the trouble using NGK plugs.
Should always use champion plugs on a Tornado.
Paul. That. Is. Cool. Worked. For. Champion. Spark. Plugs. In Detroit. Back. In. The. Day liked. THE. Work. And. Factory. But. Was. Called. Back. To. The. Chevy. Plant. Where my. Training. Contract was.
I thought Bosch would be the plug of choice? Lernt sumpin new today
Not using genuine Denso from Toyota I guess
NGK ia the best!
The Ford Mustang of the air. She never loses her swag!
lol but she has to ask russian fighters to come down to a lower altitude to play
Ford Mustang?! The most American of cars? Surely you meant Ford Capri.
The Tornado always looks unhappy on the ground and also like it always has something to go take care of.... a very serious and industrious aircraft. The F-16, on the other hand, always seems eager and happy. The shark and the dolphin.
F16 is the shark IMO,
F16 is a happy shark, always smiling and being all nimble and speedy
If we are pairings animals to jets, the Panavia Tornado would a Sand Tiger shark. Pointy and menacing with a big sweeping vertical stabilizer like the sand tiger's tail.
The F-16, original name, the Fighting Falcon is perfect, a bird of pray. Sharp and attentive like a falcon.
Good description ,tornado so underrated
@@stevevater8598 having spoken to drivers of the infamous "Klappdrachen", the German versions are overrated.
I think the carburetor was flooded😂
Knowing the distance and fences there, this is really good stuff and awesome video quality thanks for sharing!
At first I thought it was the turboprop version of the Tornado. Why does it bounce so much? Did they heat the springs?
Can anyone tell me what function the intake looking protrusion at the bottom the vertical stabilizer on the tornado serves? I can’t find an explanation anywhere.
Air intake for a heat-exchanger
By the looks of it - and this cutaway - for the ECS
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@@Wannes_ From memory it's the precooler intake for the heat exchanger which cools the HP bleed air from the engine.
Working alongside these Tornadoes at the flightline, servicing our F-16's, for many years i thought the refuel receptacle was located behind the radar antenna. They opened up into that compartment after every flight.
Whats going with the Tornado engine??
The reheat didn’t light, the white vapour was unburnt fuel
He should not have taken off......
Lester Beedell So Its Basically like turning on a stove top Burner but when the Snapping doesn’t light it ?!
Fine British engineering with the afterburner... I mean reheat... That Olympus was sketchy... I mean dodgy...
Couldn't tell from this angle or sound what was going on with the rest of the engine.
Those Germans had some pretty gutsy Kahuna's to take it like that knowing they might get an afterburner stall at any time.
@@adventurekid9242 Lol so Rolls Royce engines are shit are they, I think you might want to have a look over their record, this could be servicing, a fuel issue, not necessarily anything to do with the engine!
Spark plugs are fouling out?
I am surprised that they still flew after those failed afterburner attempts!! Thought for sure that they would abort!!! Cool to watch none the less!! Thanks for sharing!
3 burner blowouts in a row and it's back to the line.
the one afterburner is normaly enough and the main engine whasnt affected at all but what i think the ignitor for the second afterburner simply dont work after the 3 attempts it works probably the electrodes are somehow dirty or covered with sud dont forgot the tornado stands a longer period ideling at the taxi runway
@@Dagowly83 that whasnt 3 blowouts the second afterburner simply dont ignite the three times
Samantha Willmer - RB199 uses a hot shot ignition system, not electrodes. Issue can be fouling of the hot shot injector or the system that controls it.
That Iron Cross still brings back days of WWII
Paul Amarante flying british made jet ironic that
Indeed, "thumbs up" for the strong brake system.
More so, at prolonged pressure applications starting at 3:07.
When they came into service they were pretty clean engines compared to J79s and Speys that we saw every day. These days the exhaust looks really dirty.
Runway denial...
I love the look of the Panavia Tornado...
She looks awfully dangerous for the enemy...
Dangerous mission too...
Why did the tornado continue with a clear engine problem?
At 4:40 the right engine looks less bright, orange v.s. yellow. Ignitors or fuel nozzles / fuel flow / pressure ?
Do you know that the Tornado has average 60 hrs of maintenance per flight hour?
Initially it was 35, now it is 60, due the agening fleet. Want to learn to be an aircraft mechanic? Go to the Luftwaffe.
Allways something to do and good meals!
Perfect camera fps,well done
failing AB Injector Ring igniter?
Fantastic video. Huge like
At 3:22 just as he's throttling up to mil the right engine kicks out a plume of something. It wasn't happy even before trying to go into AB.
It's fuel.
That Tornado was lookin' like the "Big Bad Wolf".
The Tornado one of my favorite planes....and then there’s the A-10C :)!
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Those carburetors are tricky. Nice video!
Looks like an engineering request for the reheat system before flight.
Ops check satis.
Igniters? Still a very nice jet for the moeny.
What is current status of the Luftwaffe? Read some info in the Dutch media about issues with the Eurofighter, what about the Tornado?
They are going to buy a fleet of typhoons to replace the mighty Tornado. But it was controversial at first since someone suggested F-18. putting at risk lots of jobs.
When the after burner won't light there may be a fuel dilution problem poor fuel quality is most apparent when the fuel has trouble igniting, you could see a vapor coming out of the right engine but no combustion.
all' 83% Aj il DECU cancella la sequenza se cala la pressione nel condotto di scarico. Il carburante nel circuito viene drenato all'esterno per vuotare l'impianto R/H.
Didn't think the Crouts second engine was gonna fire up,, 💥🔥👊😂👊🔥💥
Its Krauts, as in sauerkraut. FYI 😉
Two After burner open,maybe brake cannot hold..or right engine after burner ignition fail... intermittent ...
Well the germans are used to some exhaust problems on their vehicles
That poor Tornado is in serious need of an overhaul.
Most of them are.
Luftwaffe has had major issues with maintenance for years. Their Tornado fleet especially.
They seem to be very slow and use a lot of real estate in order to take off! Spectacular none the less. Thanks for sharing.
It's a heavy Jet, but in the Air it is with Mach 2.3 in high Altitude and Mach 1.2 Groundspeed the opposite of slow.
Ground test OK? Unreliable Afterburner not so good inflight...
Didnt see any engine problem with th f16 or am i reading the title wrong .
The Tornado is such a cool plane :-)
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The Only 3 axles military engine. Incredible compact even for 21° century.
The military Kuznetsov NK-25 and NK-32 are als o 3 spool military engines (the NK-32 found limited civil use)
Le tornado peut'il faire du surplace dans l'air
also ,das steuerbord Triebwerk ist jetzt voll durchgeputzt !! Auch eine Methode ,die Turbine zu warten !!
Need to get that into Halfords mate
The Tornado, if only they design it to be carrier operable, it might be at par with the American F-14Tomcat. Its performance numbers is identical to the Tomcat
Not even in the same ball park, f14 miles ahead
A spark plug not working on the right engine...
Tornado engines do not have a "Spark Plug" for the afterburner. They blow the combustion chamber flame through the turbine to light the afterburner.
This technique ist used in order to prevent heat seeking missles from locking on.
@@NutzerYOu No offence, just to understand... There is not enough hot air produced by these two engines to "light a candle" for heat seeking missiles, but a spark plug will do the difference to ruin the pilots' day? Really?
Got really worried about the right engine afterburner. It was letting off a lot of white smoke which I thin is oil and then seemed to suck in those fumes😨😨😨😳
The white smoke is unburned fuel because the afterburner was failing to ignite
Was unburned JP fuel, not oil.
slickstrings how fuel become white smoke?
Looked like a R/H engine reheat ignitor problem
Why is the tail wing smoky?
Ah I get it reverse thrust
Venting fuel from the tail port. Common on acceleration due to the tanks being pressurised and full.
@@Dagowly83 Not exactly, most afterburners, when canceled, dump the manifold through a pencil drain out the bottom of the jet. He didn't get a light and brought the throttle back to retry and it dumped the excess each time. If you noticed, the F-16 does have a pair of AB igniters with which to light the burner.
Is there any reliable reason for military aviation in Germany?
Why not?
No, they are not in danger of being invaded
@ Michael Roy What a moronic thing to say!!! They have responsibilities to NATO, as well as being able to guard there own airspace. Stupid...
During the cold War most likely soviet invasion route would have gone straight through germany, hence there was a huge military presence there from many nations, for example read up on the fulda gap history
pilot had no interest in staying overnight at that airfield - he was going regardless
It’s just a code 2 dam it, I’m heading home!
WONDER ! BEAUTIFUL !
Beautiful Video !
Pity that tornado begging for retirement
Do you think it was a good idea to take off? Great video 👍
RB199 burner blowouts are common.
Great video, liked!
Woah! Cool video :D
That day was other engine's day off and you guys still forced him to work.. So he took his time. 🤣
Pahele Jo dikhaya tha vo mig 25 fox bat that....
No that's a Panavia Tornado
The Panavia versions were the problematic ones. It's no wonder they were shut down.
Not enough choke.
Ive never seen an afterburner wet start before
The sounds of these awesome machines are sooooo, orgasmic.
dont tell gretta, shell have to create another 5x ngo companies to be a ceo of, +be a multi millionaire. not bad for a school failure
Oh shit, what problem ?? If there were a problem with the right engine, the pilot wouldn´t have started !
Absolute amazing
That German tornado needs new set of spark plugs on that Starboard motor!!!
A little problem lighting the right engine I'd say!
I think afterburner is a formality for takeoff.
Only for airshows.
@ the Tornado can't get airbourne without it.
It's not an problem..... It's just a check for afterburn preparation...
those Tornado's came alot to the enarby Pampa range. Sadly politics is killing that range.....Great vid thx for sharing.
nearby*
I knew I should have given this old girl a tune up.
Super video I love it thanks..
The Tornado, best damn fighter jet in the Gulf war. #operationdesertstorm
credit to them being sent on most risky sorties but was not the best. the 117s were the most advanced and capable for the coalition.
Better pull the spark plug on that right engine, appears to be a little fouled
I'm surprised that the Tornado pilot was given clearance to take off with an engine that didn't want to light it's afterburner...
Tornado had clogged fuel injectors
немецкая военная мощь в одном видео) жаль навальный не видит)
удивительно как эти динозавры вообще летают)))
Ты лучше спросил у хуйло путина, почему такая аварийноть супер пупер джет 100!? И почему ещё летает говно мамонта ту 160.
Ooh old ages...
Need to clean and gap the points!
Самолет красивый, но если при пилотаже двигатели будут выходить на режим с таким рассинхроном.... Разложат его с вероятностью 100 процентов
Well there was nothing wrong with those F-16s at all and the Tornado obviously has AB no light issues as if it really HAD been a problem with the engine they wouldn't have taken off. They would have gone back to idle and vacated the runway via a taxiway. You can see they retried to light the AB several times on that right engine. Somewhat click bait-y on the title there dude.
f16 is still hero of all jetzz
When i saw the Tornado's ignition failure of the 2. Afterburner....i was like "typical Luftwaffe today". Actually less than 10% of the Luftwaffe's Aircraft is in flying conditions. and not a single Submarine.
I was surprised to see he still launched
Don’t feel bad. The US doesn’t have a sub in flying condition either.
@Moravcik 25 - same thing the governor of California did, spent the infrastructure budget on legal aid for illegal immigrants. Now California's roads are crumbling and the state is going broke feeding all the illegals.
So much drivel ...
Reminds me of two of the stupider headlines one could read in the "news":
"Three out of four Eurofighter delivered to the Luftwaffe in 2017 were so defective, they couldnt be used !!!"
Well, first of all, the LW had only gotten 4 EFs that year. The „functioning“ one was the last of the regular EF tranche 3. The other 3 were replacements for some aircraft lost in the last 2 decades. As EADS etc had just developed the new mainframe computer for the planned tranche 4, they asked the LW whether they wanted to try it out on these planes as testbeds, to iron out any problems. LW said sure, good idea.
Great computers. Much faster than the old ones. Make the aircraft quite a bit deadlier.
Only "problem": since the EF often fly in the same airspace as civilian liners, the new EFs with new onboard computers needed first to be certified by the civilian aviation authorities. That takes time (but saves time for the upcoming tranche 4 introduction). During that time, they can only fly in the confines of restricted military airspace (in peacetime, that is). So, in the official reports, they show up as non-operational, as you cant legally fly any operations with them. In sum, the LW got 4 great new aircraft from industry. And the headlines read "Shame! Disgrace! Only 1 out of 4 new EFs are operational!" You can't make that stuff up ...
But it all led to the even more ridiculous claim that
"In 2018, there were only 4 out of 140 Luftwaffe EF operational !!!!"
Oh boy. That's the Bildzeitung for you. And lots of outlets bought that moronic story hook line and sinker. I mean, how stupid can you be, to believe such obvious drivel???
In reality the report by the Bundeswehr the Bild refered to did say 8 planes COMBAT READY at any given time. Bild halved that number and then "forgot" to mention that those planes are the planes of the QRF. They are standing fueled and armed in their sheds at the runway 24/7. 4 in the north, 4 in the south. th-cam.com/video/nOy1pynJe1s/w-d-xo.html
The pilots have 12 hours shifts, so at any moment only 4 are on actual standby, which is maybe what Bild tried to refer to. But the other pilots are next door and when a QRF flight goes up, they get woken up, just in case another trouble spot shows up, and their aircraft get readied by the techs (takes 20 min). There are also another 4 EF at each airbase in almost-as-high readyness to replace the QRF ones should one break down.
In addition to these 8 national QRF (and 8 reserves), we also had another 4 on 24/7 ready stand by in the Baltics, too, as part of a NATO mission that were conveniently forgotten. Plus another 4 on reserve. th-cam.com/video/q2yaGHrsn3o/w-d-xo.html
Makes 24 EFs ready for war within an hour or so. That number, by itself, is bigger than the idiotic 10% claimed above to be "ready to fly", even if one includes the whole Tornado fleet (>90) and moronically assumes none of them can go up ...
Evidently, you don't want to keep all your aircraft at such a level of readiness.
Doesn't mean that there werent some problems with the EF after years of cuts to the defense bugdet (until Putin invaded Crimea). But in 2018 around 45-50 % of the EF were operational at any time. At the lower end for the older tranche 1 aircraft (38 new tranche 4 replacements planned for the 23-25 timeframe), and at the higher for the newer t2+3 EFs.
Thanks to increased military spending (2013: 34 billion EUR, 2020: 50 billion EUR) this has improved to around 70 % for EFs early 2020 pre Corona which is actually a very good number considering that Germany has much higher safety requirements (in peace time) than most other countries.
It had dropped to 60 % due to the pandemic preventing some legally required maintenance checks (esp by limiting travel of civilian specialists from Airbus), but numbers are improving again.
***
Yes, the Tornados are getting old and are becoming less and less reliable. For them, 50% availability is actually a good number. Which is why they will be replaced soonish with some new EFs and, depending on how the US + German elections go, with 45 Super Hornets/Growlers.
***
BTW, all 6 German subs are operational again (and have been for quite a while). Germany will get another 2 improved ones (U212 CD), as soon as Norway finally makes up its mind ...
esut.de/en/2020/04/meldungen/20366/aller-guten-dinge-sind-hoffentlich-drei-deutsch-norwegisches-u-bootprojekt-u212cd/
@@positroll7870 Well said. That's the media for you... remember their motto: "Never let the facts get in the way of a good story" 😒
X didn't get it,,why are the brakes the hero,nothing happened
Takes choke off, sorted off we go 😎
Starboard engine B-1-Charlie igniter intermittent.
Surely that would have a fault and not flown
Well... He flew, so it obviously wasn't a fault!
Don't you Germans clean tour planes?
Tornado having a vape before take off. Very distinguished.
The Germans are in a good place technically, but their armies are crumbling.
just need to toss a lit match into the intake then you're good to go
Select afterburner... No ignite... Vapor vent residual fuel.. Try it again.... And again....
Not a failure
If it were engine trouble they wouldn't take off.
And.......she stalls it at the lights!!
Oh no been refueled with ethanol gasoline again