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A Hawk T1A of the Red Arrows with new 2015 colour scheme. The team use the same two-seat training aircraft used for advanced pilot training, at first the Folland Gnat which was replaced in 1979 by the BAE Systems Hawk T1. [41] The Hawks in 1979 were assembled at RAF Bitteswell in Leicestershire; the site had 1,100 workers.
Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team "Red Arrows" Hawk T1. In November 2011, the Red Arrows suffered another pilot fatality when the Martin-Baker Mk.10 ejection seat fitted to the Hawk T1 activated while the aircraft was stationary; the veteran combat pilot died on ground impact when the ejector seat parachute also failed to deploy. [45]
There is a memorial at RAF Scampton to Cunningham and fellow Red Arrows pilot, Flight Lieutenant Jon Egging. A brass plaque, on a wooden plinth in front of a gate guardian Hawk aircraft, reads "...they have slipped the surly bonds of Earth / Put out their hands and touched the face of God... / In memory of / Flt Lt Jon Egging – 20th August ...
"It's a boyhood dream come true," Flt Lt Rob Thomas says standing next to the glistening wing of a Red Arrows jet. ... instructing pilots and weapon system operators on the Hawk T-165.
At least 10 helicopters took part in the flypast alongside a Red Arrows squad of nine Hawk jet. (BBC) The coronation flypast has begun. 14:31, Thomas Kingsley.
20 March 2018 - Hawk T1 XX204 [95] aircraft on the Red Arrows team crashed shortly after takeoff at RAF Valley at about 1:30 pm. The pilot was treated for non-life-threatening injuries after ejecting from the plane. The passenger, the leader of the Red Arrows' dye team, was killed. [96]
The Red Arrows were taking part in the Saturday displays at the Bournemouth Air Festival. Visibility exceeded 10 km (6.21 miles), the horizon being clearly defined and there was a light Southeasterly wind.
He became a member of the Red Arrows, as Red 2, from 1971 to 1972. He had flown the Harrier with the RAF, starting with the Harrier Operational Conversion Unit, at RAF Chivenor, from early 1973. [1] [2] He attended the Empire Test Pilots' School and flew with the Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment Boscombe Down in Wiltshire.