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Old 15th Jul 2010, 20:27
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Reds down to Eight?
Saw the Red Arrows practising their display for next week's Farnborough Air Show at Farnborough this afternoon.

There were only eight aircraft performing - are they down to eight now?
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Well didn't they crash one in Cyprus and the pilot is still not back up to fitness??
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Their display at the Goodwood Festival of Speed this year was flown with 8 aircraft due to a pilot being unwell.
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I understand that the ejection victim is not coming back this season, and is being replaced by one of last seasons guys. It is taking a little time to retrain him. Kirsty Moore was ill for Goodwood. The crash was not in Cyprus. I think it was Turkey, but may have been Greece from memory.
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I'm almost sure I counted nine at Yeovilton....
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There were nine displaying at Shrivenham @ 1300 this afternoon. One of the aircraft suffered a hydraulic failure (if I heard correctly), but the spare (without smoke) was employed by Red 1 for the Shriv display.
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The crash was on Crete... Kastelli Military Airport, to be precise.

The Arrows were basing at Iraklio Airport, 22 miles away from the crash site.
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They had eight on the saturday at Waddington but were back to nine for the sunday display.
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Old 16th Jul 2010, 09:03
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Eight on the Saturday at Waddington:



Nine on the Sunday once she was better...

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Sunshine Band

I cant quite make out the numbers from your photo....Do you have any more
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That is a superb photo.
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A completely awesome photo!
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SB,
Nice shot but it, or any others requested by Barnstormer, require to be at 850width maximum.

http://www.pprune.org/spectators-bal...your-pics.html

Thanks

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Old 18th Jul 2010, 12:02
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As stated earlier in the thread, the reason for being down to 8 during the practice is because Red One had a hydraulic failure when inbound to land at Fairford and had to 'blow' the gear.

Picture...



Cheers,
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Barnstormer, some more for you from the Saturday...











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Those are stunning pictures. The best seen for some time - and we do have some terrific photographers in PPRuNe - thank you guys.
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Old 23rd Jul 2010, 16:34
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Thinks - it used to be called 'missing man formation'...............
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They were 9 at Wittering this afternoon
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There were also 9 at Farnborough today and despite a rolling display the crowd and corporate enjoyed it.
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Old 23rd Jul 2010, 19:52
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as A2QFI states,

9 at wittering's family day today.

thanks to all for a nice (and free!!) day out.

the reds departure was a nice touch, two 3 ships and and a flashy looking 4.

sadly my camera battery had died by this point
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