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Originally Posted by Oberon
Blimey.  No more US military aerobatic teams. I must admit, that does surprise me. There was a rumour over here that the Red Arrows were going to be pulled, created quite an uproar and nothing came of it. |
The rumour exists every few years, that and the closing of Scampton, but in reality as long as they're around then Scampton will remain open. Even when they officially moved to Cranwell they were back every day to Scampton because they're such an interruption to the RAFC flying program, so all the staff involved had to travel from Cranwell daily - air traffickers, firemen, groung crew. Every other military airfield in the country, and at least one civvy one (St. Mawgan) was considered and discarded for numerous reasons. Personally I like them being 40km away from me, I can sometimes see them practicing from my village.
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Originally Posted by Oberon
We've had quite a few aerial display teams go by the by. The Yellowjacks, the Black Arrows, the Red Pelicans, the Sharks, all gone.
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Blue Eagles, The Poachers, Linton Gin
, The Blades (JP team from Linton-on-Ouse, not the current civvy team), The Meteorites, The Skylarks, The Macaws, The Magistrates, The Black Knights, The Tigers, The Blue Diamonds. There are probably a few more uber-unofficial ones.
That was the good old days when a squadron or station fielded a display team, and we had airframes and crews to spare.
I remember seeing the Blue Angels at a UK airshow, must've been Finningley in 1992, I've probably got some old photos somewhere but knowing me then, and knowing my wonderful 110 camera (or my disk camera) the pics are just dots against the sky.
