RED ARROWS

[Tony Lockhart]

Goodness only knows, and yet they bore some folks around here

I can't help if something bores me! I have watched an aerobatic competition and enjoyed it. I've watched hundreds of solo displays by fast jets and warbirds, and mostly enjoyed them. The Reds are too quiet, pretty predictable, and I suppose I've seen them too often. Also, from my engineering point of view, the Hawk doesn't interest me. It's a training aircraft, primarily.
Two years ago, at Duxford, one F-15 display had the hairs on my arms standing up and a smile on my face:

Problem being, the F-15 used more fuel than all the Reds put together! There we have it: money. We are running our forces on crossed fingers and a few quid from a jar in the cupboard.

Tony

 

[tripleweber]

I assume it would be possible these days to have some kind of electronic communication set up between the aircraft so they could perform extremely close formation manoeuvres by letting computers control it. (As we sometimes see now with RC drones) but I take it they aren't yet using anything like that?

Bit like the parking sensors on my XKR but at a faster speed