Reds Suffer Another Bird Strike, this time at Farnborough

[Warmtoast]

I was at Farnborough today (Friday 18th July) and was there when the Red Arrows suffered another bird strike.

I was watching the Red's display and towards the end it was curtailed. According to Farnborough Airshow Radio which was relaying the official display commentary, Red 8 suffered a bird strike. Red 9 made a visual inspection of any potential damage to Red 8, after which Red 8 made a safe landing, escorted after landing by a variety of rescue vehicles.

The rest of the formation made a final flypast and landed safely.

No further details as to damaged suffered etc.

[Wander00]

To misquote Oscar Wilde, once is unfortunate, twice looks like carelessness: what does three make. So glad all pilots are safe. Hope they are all airborne again tomorrow

[Genstabler]

I believe the aircraft is flyable so they still have nine smokers.

[Tashengurt]

This has only started happening since their tails were painted.
Just saying.


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[Exascot]

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/32684975/scarlet-tanager-10.jpg

[Basil]

Ah, yes; leader of The Red Sparrows ;)

[teeteringhead]

What was it James Bond said? Or someone in one of the books anyway:

"Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence. The third time is enemy action!"

Mind you, they are SO blatant with their chemtrails .......... :8

[500N]

I was always told that accidents / incidents come in threes.

[Madbob]

I always thought that hawks were supposed to be the predators, at the higher end of the food-chain, not the victims.......;)

Ok hat, coat etc. just glad that it wasn't more serious this time.

MB

[Minnie Burner]

In the good old days they flew under the birds............
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v146/FlyingLawyer/Ray_Red1_low.jpg

[Avtur]

I was always told that accidents / incidents come in threes

MH17, Taiwan, Algeria

[Al R]

BBC News - How odd is a cluster of plane accidents? (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-28481060)