Red Arrows

[Racers]

Nice!

Red Arrows by Pete Maddex, on Flickr

Red Arrows by Pete Maddex, on Flickr

Red Arrows by Pete Maddex, on Flickr

Red Arrows by Pete Maddex, on Flickr

Pete

 

[Penny]

Here are a few of mine:

 

[Racers]

Very nice Penny.

Pete

 

[Racers]

Another one.

Red Arrows by Pete Maddex, on Flickr

Pete

 

[RogerM]

A couple of mine from 1975 at RAF Cranwell families day. Sadly we won't see any displays like this again!

Note from the smoke trails how both aircraft have climbed to get to this crossover position at 360 kts (414 mph) - a closing sped of over 800 mph. That wingspan is just 22 ft (about 6m 73cms), so judge for yourselves how low they are!

 

[rafezetter]

Not the same as watching a display, but before Filton Airfeild in Bristol was closed couple years ago they used to land there for refuel, a couple of circuits then come in one by one. They would all take off in unison though which sounded like the Concorde or Vulcan - what a sound!

 

[RogerS]

I've seen their display twice this year - once at RNAS Yeovilton and the second time at Fairford.

I also get NOTAMS (Notice to Airmen) daily and a few months back I picked up that they were doing a flypast at a charity music event in Malvern. I plotted their routing but which way would they transit the Malvern Hills to line up to flypast where the music festival was? I reckoned that they would transit through a narrow gap in the hill topology at Storridge so me and SWMBO climbed the hill immediately behind us and a few hundred yards from the estimated flight line.

Dead chuffed that I got it right.

Then the other weekend I saw that the Arrows were transiting very close and to the West of us and I reckoned that there was a faint chance that we might catch a glimpse. So at the scheduled time, me and LOML went upstairs, binoculars at the ready and waited. And waited. Nothing. Ah well....weather was pretty dire..maybe they had to cancel as you can usually set your watch by their timing. Just about to go downstairs when we heard their very characteristic engine sound but BEHIND us...frantically dashing about the house trying to find a window to see them from but they were just over the brow of the hill. If they'd been a few hundred feet further West then they'd have flown right over us.

 

[DiscoStu]

I too was at Fairford. I go every year but I go to a farmers field next to the runway and directly under the display line. Not sure if that will be allowed next year though as the Shoreham crash may well have put an end to it. If you like aviation photography though it's the best spot! I'll try and dig out a few shots and post later.