I can’t find the illustration but before the design started messing around with the aircraft to fit Navy requirements one of the ideas that would’ve allowed it to supercruise on the deck throughout the strike phase of a mission is that the wings would’ve more or less folded all the way back like a Peregrine falcon and it would’ve relied almost entirely on using the fuselage like a lifting body to minimize drag.
Preeety cool…
I’ll have to see if I can find the source.
So all pilots must be at least a little bit French from what you are saying @SierraAlphaMike 
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There are worse things!
I’m confused…is this an upgrade to my “Lock On: Modern Air Combat”?
Seriously, just writing that lengthy “letter” underscores a customer commitment rarely seen these days. For most developers, “It will be done when it is done” is the most you get.
And I’m with Beach - “27 years”…ww…as I ponder it, I seem to recall I had a Tornado simulator in the early 1990s that was pretty sophisticated for its time - I think it was DCS. A fixed fictional battle space but 3D-ish in a 2D pre-graphics card day. The best battle damage I had ever seen.
I distinctly remember a mission where I took some hits in the target area - I successfully landing my wounded Tornado on a road. I just sat there and looked at the screen for a couple of minutes…until my heart stopped racing. Funny how things like that stick in our memory.
Tornado was DI I think? A UK company, Spec Holo distributed in US.
The FM was meh but the mission planner and systems modeling was top notch. It was all about planning your route, TFR, and dropping that JP233 properly to ruin the runway. 
Oh yeah, and an awesome manual, I think I may still have it somewhere…
Yep, Digital Integration. Awesome sim for its day.
And yeah, the planning was half (or more) of the experience. I remember planning simultaneous strikes with a few seconds intervals.
Update
Dear all,
As mentioned earlier, I wanted to bring you some news on this subject by week’s end. Over the past week we’ve been discussing this matter in-depth to find the best compromise of making the protection as unobtrusive as possible, while at the same time protecting our property from theft. It’s safe to say that we will be making some changes, but they are not final and we’d like to postpone announcing them until we are sure of them.
Once we have finalized our keyless protection plans, we promise to inform you.
Thanks
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Digital Integration’s Tornado was outstanding for the time. I bought my first PC specifically to play it.
Yo PaulRix, Troll, Jedi Master and others. In the meantime while waiting for a DCS Tornado GR4, you can relive some great memories at www.tornado2.com and www.moodurian.com/tornado , the world’s only active fan sites of the venerable Digital Integration 1993 flight simulator DOS game, Tornado. 145 mods so far as of 31st July 2019.
Somewhat related, the X-Trident Tornado just had an update to v3.5. for XP 11.30+. Update was 23 July 2019.