Been there, done that…

Looking through my old scraps from the eighties before going to the blockade at Büchel, I came across this newspaper cutting of me handing a letter to the duty officer at RAF Cottesmore. Not sure of the date of this action, but I also – digging deeper into my boxes – found a flyer for the action with 16 December as the date, although the year is not on it.

The action was to protest at the siting of Tornado aircraft that were to be equipped with cruise missiles. As a brand new ‘multi-role’ aircraft (meaning also nuclear capable), the Tornado could fly at twice the speed of sound and was the replacement for the older Vulcan and Bucaneer aircraft. RAF Cottesmore was the trinational training centre for all European Tornado bombers.

Now going to Büchel where the Tornados are reaching the end of their operational lives and are considered – thirty years later – to be a very old aircraft.

The graphics on the flyer are some of my early work.