Bacongrills
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If they're short of pilots I dont mind having a go, I've got a forklift operators certificate.
Pissed Arrows
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vvaannmmaann
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Close enough.When can you start?
Bacongrills
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Soon as I get my 8x reading glasses back from the optician.
Toastie
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Don’t know what all the fuss is about. I routinely fly with my mate flying no more than 2’ away and we do it for 8-14 hours at a time.
vvaannmmaann
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Is your mate called George?
Toastie
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Sometimes Georgina
UKAviationGroup
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The team | Royal Air Force
Pilots All Red Arrows display pilots are fast-jet pilots, having previously flown with frontline Royal Air Force squadrons. Once they have finished their tour with the team - usually three years in total
www.raf.mod.uk
7 Display Pilots - so Diamond 9 formation is out?
The display for 2022 is a 7-ship due to the foreign misdemeanors, but the Reds can put up a 9-ship for flypasts (but no aerobatics) by including the Team Manager (Red 10) and the Officer Commanding (Red 11). We're not likely to see a Diamond 9 as that's not normally used for simple flypasts.The team | Royal Air Force
Pilots All Red Arrows display pilots are fast-jet pilots, having previously flown with frontline Royal Air Force squadrons. Once they have finished their tour with the team - usually three years in total
7 Display Pilots - so Diamond 9 formation is out?
Edited to add: By having nine jets fly past Buckingham Palace recently with the smoke on, it might have saved Her Majesty from asking where the other two were, and an embarrassing explanation from the RAF.
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964ST
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That’s fine you can take rear position in formations and do all round defence, watch for Bogies, Birds and Breathalysers.
There has been a Maverick, Goose, etc.
What about “Spider” 8 eyes are better than 2.
orgASMic
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Greece. The last Ex SPRINGHAWK at Akrotiri was in May 2014, then Op SHADER got in the way and they moved to Greece. They have also used Croatia for their pre-season work-up.
woopert
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It won't take too much sleuthing to work out, you just look at the team line up for the past 2 years, work out who was due to rotate after 3 years and see which names in this year's team are no longer there and you stand an odds on chance of knowing who the offenders were.Heard about this a good few weeks back. It definitely wasn’t last night.
“This year, the RAF Red Arrows will display with a seven-aircraft formation, rather than nine, as two of our formation pilots have moved to other roles within the RAF.”
Other roles. Ok then.
AIRSHOW NEWS: RAF Red Arrows to display as a seven-ship in 2022
The Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team, the Red Arrows, have announced they will display as a seven-ship during the 2022 Display Season.www.air-shows.org.uk
The bigger challenge will be potentially training up potentially 5 newbies instead of 3
woopert
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Duty dit from a mate with enough bar code on his shoulders that every time he passes a till in Tesco it goes beep and recognises him as a tube of Pringles, is that there was a strong whiff of wife swapping and bullying involved with said sackings.Heard about this a good few weeks back. It definitely wasn’t last night.
“This year, the RAF Red Arrows will display with a seven-aircraft formation, rather than nine, as two of our formation pilots have moved to other roles within the RAF.”
Other roles. Ok then.
AIRSHOW NEWS: RAF Red Arrows to display as a seven-ship in 2022
The Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team, the Red Arrows, have announced they will display as a seven-ship during the 2022 Display Season.
Bravo_Bravo
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Don't knock wife swapping; I got a fridge.
woopert
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It's been a well-hidden fact that it all went wrong and into the sphere of bullying when one of the reds was angling for a Mk 4 Cortina and all his oppo was prepared to go was a toaster. Some say that the offended Red went full-on mlllar-pagga and windmilled in at the end of camp BBQ while their team mates filled the paddling pool with jelly to watch the Budweiser-fulled bitch-off go into full effect. Air Vice Marshal (Graham) Norton went as far as trying to separate the pair with "their" handbag accidentally knocking out AS1(T) "Bomber" Harriss the circus sooty who flies back-seat to his now jelly encrusted and rather badly bruised boss.
By all accounts it was sheer carnage and the closest to any real action any of them have been sine the Battle for Larnaka Pool when the Gerry's got in first at the sun loungers with their beach towels in 1939! Far from being RTU'd they in fact won a DFC and Bar and have now joined the RAF Regt as the 4th SF.
rustypilgrim
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That's what I like about this forum, sooner or later you get the full inside story.
Lardbeast
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Have they found the chandelier and is the penguin alright?
The irony of his recent words to the press:
"Especially for myself as this will be my first full, proper season and I'm looking forward to the seaside shows as they are special."
Red Arrows promise 'exciting and different' routine for Weston Air Festival
The Red Arrows have promised an "exciting" and "different" routine for the Weston Air Festival as it makes a triumphant return this...
woopert
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What are the names on the list? The website only has the 7 displaying pilots plus Monty and R10 and I can't find an archived version.
woopert
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Is that some sort of code, or do you need medical help until the episode passes?
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