The Red Arrows (RAF Aerobatic Team)

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The Red Arrows (RAF Aerobatic Team)

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The Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team, the Red Arrows, has completed overseas training ahead of the 2015 season. The Squadron - which flies Hawk T1 fast-jets - is seen here in Greece performing some of the moves which will be watched by hundred of thousands of people across the UK and overseas this year. The team was awarded Public Display Authority on 30 April 2015, which is the formal start of the the Red Arrows' season.




Squadron Leader David Montenegro, new Red 1, explains the feeling of passing his first Public Display Authority as the Team Leader. He explains the next step in the process and what he is most looking forward to in the 2015 display season.



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Will the Red Arrows eventually transition to T2? Considering the T1s will be retired over the coming years.

Any further orders for T2?
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WhitestElephant wrote:Will the Red Arrows eventually transition to T2? Considering the T1s will be retired over the coming years.

Any further orders for T2?
I believe a better question might be, "Will the Red Arrows eventually transition to real airplanes?" :D

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I've always thought the angels and thunderbirds shows were a bit.....sterile.

But then I don't get a boner at an airshow, so meh.

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downsizer wrote:I've always thought the angels and thunderbirds shows were a bit.....sterile.

But then I don't get a boner at an airshow, so meh.
Cannot agree with that, the Blue Angels are anything but sterile.

Unfortunately the RAF cannot afford to transition the Red Arrows to a top tier fighter desertswo. We will be lucky to see them transition to Hawk T2 as is... as it looks like there may be no more Hawk T2s ordered and the T1s will be retired soon.
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The Red Arrows are an aerobatic display team which require small nimble agile aircraft for their unique and highly complex manoeuvres. The BAe Hawk fits the Red Arrows needs perfectly. Having recently watched a TV documentary which featured the 'Reds' performing against (and with) with three other different aerobatic teams (Canada's Snowbirds, USN Blue Angels, USAF Thunderbirds), the Red Arrows had a very different style to all three other teams and performed much more unique and exciting displays, even more impressive considering there are NINE Red Arrows too.

Recent Channel 5 documentary: "Danger Men - Red Arrows"

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A quartet of the Red Arrows, performing arguably their most dangerous manoeuvre, the 'Gypo Break'.


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Jesus H. Tapdancing Christ, I was yanking your collective chains!
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@desertswo
LOL I laughed when I saw your earlier post. Nothing wrong in a bit of fun.

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bobp wrote:@desertswo
LOL I laughed when I saw your earlier post. Nothing wrong in a bit of fun.
That's what I thought. Who knew? Not to go too far OT, back in '94 I was operating my ship out of NAS Pensacola, Florida while we were training the Egyptian Navy to take possession of her (it's now called "Damyat"). The Blue Angels spend the winter months training at NAF El Centro, California, but for the summer air show season they stage out of and practice at Pensacola. So every day we were in port we'd saunter topside at 10:00 AM with our coffee and cokes and watch a free air show taking place over Pensacola Bay. My chair on the port bridge wing was the best seat in the house. It was great because they'd occasionally break routine and do something just a bit outrageous. Like so:



May not look like much, but when the pull up and climb out maneuver commences only a few hundred meters off one's port side and the airplane passes some 50 to 100 meters over the aforementioned chair on the bridge wing, one achieves a whole new appreciation for "life in the fast lane."

Actually, my favorite Blue Angels aren't even the Navy and Marine Corps aviators flying the Hornets, but the Marine Corps folks flying the aerial spare parts bin lovingly known as "Fat Albert."

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Red Arrows get a new team member....
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Seagull photobombs a display. :mrgreen:

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Only the Red Arrows were permitted to fly today for the Queen's flypast due to bad weather:



This was planned:

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Some shots of it being rehearsed:



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the thunderbirds and angels aircraft aren't "real" aircraft either I seam to remember reading it would take 6-10 months work to return them to operational standard. the Reds Hawks used to be wiled to carry AiM9l as last ditch airdefence

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New series.

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487 types of aircraft flown in one career - a stunt that beats even the Red Arrows:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-35626854
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^^^^The fucking spotters have been going spastic over that!

Proper makes me laugh... :D :lol:

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I was at Scamption this week, they did seem to be a bit less full on than previous years, it made me wonder if it was in response to the Shoreham air show disaster
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