Red Arrows

[Bill C.]

The Red Arrows flew rather low right over my house last evening in preparation for landing at our local airport.  Apparently, they are over here on a U.S. tour and had performed for the crowds near the Statue of Liberty earlier in the day.  Pretty cool.

[joe23002]

lol, what a pointless topic jkin, iv never seen them u lucky guy

[Charlie B]

I work in Lincoln England, the red arrows base is about 3 miles away so i get to see them practising often. Heard they were in the US and Canada and performing in NYC

[darfgarf]

hehe i've had them flypast on their way to another show while i was flying a small trainer...but at the time i was almost crapping myself, as it was like whoosh, and then they were gone, later the pilot i was with told me he'd radiod them and got them and got them to fly closer than usual to see what i did...lol now who else has been that close to them in the air?

[Kiola]

Im sure the red arrows came to my primary school once and i got to try on a Jumpsuit.. maybe it was all a dream

[flyinmonkey]

the pilots come thru were i work every month or so, we do their engines so they say hi n thanks, sat in no.1 cockpit, its way too uncomfortable lol

[darfgarf]

...thats cos it's not fitted to you, it's fitted to the pilot, who is in a g-suit at the time, so it's nice and comfy for them

[flyinmonkey]

yea, no chance of me stealin it lol, get half way down the runway n b in agony!

[darfgarf]

...then attempt to take off and fly like most people who've played MS flight sim, and get hit by the g and crash.

...unless you actually know how to fly, then w00t! 2 people on here that can...though i'm not that good, better at gliding

[lil-lozzi]

 u say

...lol now who else has been that close to them in the air?

but iv beein in a chinock before an hung out the back lol

i havent flown in a jet as of yet but hope to soon
 
( btw darfgarf i was a aircdt an hav been in loads of aircraft including a trystar )

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lozzi
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[darfgarf]

aww i wanna go in a tristar and chinook, lol i was aswell and earned the nickname cpl scruffy lol, just gliding and the tutor for me, but i was in poor old hythe where no one got round to organising anythiing lol.

...and the nco's launched fireworks at the rest of thecdts on a weekend exercise (shh wasn't entirely legal)

[lil-lozzi]

well i was on camp n notrh wales lol

an when on the chinook an my bro fixes tristars so i was at a familey day lol


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[darfgarf]

meh ah well, twas fun even though i failed at most things, including a 4 foot grouping(yeah 4 foot, thats the size of the big targets) on the l85 hehe semi-auto rules..btw 100m lol

[Dark Knight]

When I jet-skied at Tattershall the Lancaster bomber would fly low level over our heads. Wheels down so close you could see who was flying it ! It would circle round once coming back over before going to where ever to was off !? I think it was incase it had a problem and had to land quickly ?
We'd seen it do it so many times we ignored it but everyone else would be going "Wow ! " and taking pictures. LOL

[stevie]

My sisters Daughter is engaged to one of the red arrows, i met him at christmas he's a great guy.