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05 Mar 2012 00:08 #81 by stevie
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According to ceefax the female pilot has been grounded, but its not for disciplinary reasons. If its not for disciplinary reasons then IMHO it must be for medical reasons.


It's all explained in the two links i put up in my original post above!!
www.flickr.com/photos/151928544@N03/albums

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17 Sep 2012 09:26 #82 by REF
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The Reds are back to Nine for next year according to BBC:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-19610023

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21 Feb 2013 08:54 #83 by cbrjock
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Safe while Dave :roll: is at the helm;

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21514999

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21 Feb 2013 15:13 #84 by Alex Brown
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And if the other lot get in then Mr Milibland can sponsor them...
"The Ed Arrows" has a certain ring to it?

;)
Yes, I'm back(ish).

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23 Oct 2018 08:35 #85 by Peter Kirk
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After reading a recent post in the Hawk thread I tried to recall if I had seen more of the Red Arrows in Gnats than Hawks. Certainly the first image in my head is the Gnat but that is because I grew up watching them in Gnats.

For me,I suspect on airshow appearances the Arrows with Gnats outnumbered the Hawks. The twice yearly visits to the Biggin Hill airshows (June & September) from 1968 and regular visits to other airshows in the seventies out weighs the number of airshow visits from 1979 onward. The trouble is the earlier years are the ones you remember the most.
No Amount Of Evidence Will Ever Persuade An Idiot (probably not Mark Twain)

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09 Nov 2018 14:07 #86 by canberra
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In my two years on IV we had two future team leaders serving and quite a few blokes who went on to serve with the arrows.

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16 Nov 2018 18:14 #87 by netcompsys
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Elsewhere today I was shown the front cover of the RAF Yearbook for 1980 which featured the then new mount of the Red Arrows, The Hawk T1.

So 38 years.....

I wonder how many aircraft they have consumed in that time ?
kevin

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17 Nov 2018 05:08 - 17 Nov 2018 05:10 #88 by TerryClark
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I flew in a Hawk of 4 FTS in 1979; I'm sure the Arrows had them before that 'cos I recall one of them hitting the mast of a boat in Brighton Marina in '78. (Precision pilots the red arrows; any other pilot would have missed that mast; at least that's what the RAF instructors at Leeming told me in early '79):evil:

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17 Nov 2018 08:14 - 17 Nov 2018 08:16 #89 by stevie
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I flew in a Hawk of 4 FTS in 1979; I'm sure the Arrows had them before that 'cos I recall one of them hitting the mast of a boat in Brighton Marina in '78. (Precision pilots the red arrows; any other pilot would have missed that mast; at least that's what the RAF instructors at Leeming told me in early '79):evil:


Hi Terry,

I thought that incident happened in May 1980? 1980 was definitely the first year they flew the Hawk on the air display circuit.
www.flickr.com/photos/151928544@N03/albums
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17 Nov 2018 08:15 - 17 Nov 2018 08:20 #90 by netcompsys
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I flew in a Hawk of 4 FTS in 1979; I'm sure the Arrows had them before that 'cos I recall one of them hitting the mast of a boat in Brighton Marina in '78. (Precision pilots the red arrows; any other pilot would have missed that mast; at least that's what the RAF instructors at Leeming told me in early '79):evil:


May 17th 1980 S\L Johnson XX262
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