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Oct 30, 2026
RobHOST
Actually, coming back to the seaside shows, I think a lot of places were...
RobHOST
There was concerns about their viability and how popular they were going to be when it was announced the Reds were going off to America again.
RobHOST
But, I mean, anecdotally, I don't think the air show scene has particularly suffered from not having the Red Arrows around this summer.
RobHOST
I think all those fears, I mean, maybe that was because React was cancelled.
RobHOST
So a lot of people ended up going to air shows anyway.
AntHOST
I'll buy the programme at Eastbourne.
AntHOST
I'll chuck a couple of quid in the bucket and...
AntHOST
And then the second point you made from my point of view is the Reds going away.
Graham ParleyHOST
And now we're going to move on to some letters.
Graham ParleyHOST
And my first one is David Lamming of Boxford, who said that the RAF's Red Arrows display team were the main attraction at the Clacton Airshow, attended by many hundreds of people.
Graham ParleyHOST
There are and were only six jets.
Graham ParleyHOST
It had been announced in advance that only seven, rather than the traditional nine, would be taking part.
Graham ParleyHOST
But the reduced number did not diminish the enjoyment of their 25 minutes long display.
Graham ParleyHOST
And there is a South Suffolk link.
Graham ParleyHOST
The Red Arrows flew over the area, including Boxford, on their way to and from Clacton from RAF Mildenhall.
Chris PayneHOST
My next letter is from Gwen Pease of Ipswich, and she says, TV birdwatching adventures.
Mandy HicksonGUEST
But once I got to RAF Valley and Anglesey, they had a really different system or there was a different situation there because that is the most intense flying training you're ever going to do.
Mandy HicksonGUEST
You're flying the aircraft that looks like the Red Arrows.
Mandy HicksonGUEST
It's the same aeroplane.
Mandy HicksonGUEST
It goes at about 450 miles an hour, you know, and it's really challenging.
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Mandy HicksonGUEST
I would go through the whole thing.
Mandy HicksonGUEST
You look at pilots about to do an aerobatic sequence...
Mandy HicksonGUEST
even like the Red Arrows or, you know, the Thunderbirds.
Mandy HicksonGUEST
You will watch them doing it and they're literally going like this.
Scott ManleyHOST
There was also a whole bunch of military planes flying everywhere.
Scott ManleyHOST
We had the British Red Arrows were out there as well, which is interesting.
Scott ManleyHOST
But I think most worth mentioning is that NASA had official planes flying over.
Scott ManleyHOST
They had their special aircraft, which had been painted up in stars and stripes.
Steve CropleyHOST
One of them was an expert A380 pilot.
Steve CropleyHOST
And one of them had been a, had a long career of the Red Arrows and they were just sort of shooting the breeze about their experiences.
Steve CropleyHOST
And because they just had lots of tales to tell, was so interesting.
Steve CropleyHOST
That was a real fireside chat and it was coordinated by Will Rimmel who was our news editor until a short time ago and now works with Clarence and others.
Chris KeenCORRESPONDENT
Talk us through that process.
Aidan RayGUEST
Yeah, so if any display sites want to apply to have us, it's exactly the same as the Red Arrows, BBMF, the Falcons, Tutor.
Aidan RayGUEST
On our RAF website page, you'll see apply for the Typhoon display team.
Aidan RayGUEST
It's a short application that goes into the Air Events team.
Aidan RayGUEST
So there's a lot of time between us first looking at the calendar in November and you seeing it in March.
Aidan RayGUEST
It's a lot of backwards and forwards to work out that calendar, depending on Air Force priorities, where we can display, what overseas we're going to do that year, where all the shows are.
Aidan RayGUEST
There's a lot of balancing between us, the Red Arrows and BBMF as well.
Aidan RayGUEST
So some shows you'll see that you'll get one of us, but not the other, just to try and kind of split spread the resource so far and get as many people to see something as possible.
Sid ColeGUEST
I mean, the weather actually on...
Sid ColeGUEST
May the 6th was the biggest challenge, and at the very end was meant to be a Battle of Britain memorial flight that went over, and it was too west, if you recall, for the Spitfires and those sort of things to go up, but the Red Arrows would fly through, you know, Hell and Fury, and they went up, and the Apache helicopters, the helicopters went up, and they actually delayed what was going to be that full flight to the Troop in the Colour, which was later on the King's sort of official birthday later on in June, so it was...
Sid ColeGUEST
Yeah, it was a phenomenal event to be even a small part of.
Sid ColeGUEST
And across the course of the day, various teams would sort of take different legs of it.
Jon CapewellGUEST
Fucking
DannyPANELIST
come on, Red Arrows! Come on, Red Arrows! Hey, ref.
DannyPANELIST
Bloody hell.
DannyPANELIST
Dad? Dad? He
Joe AchillesHOST
Yes, it's difficult to say.
Joe AchillesHOST
I mean, even like the Red Arrows pilot that we had on at Festival of Speed.
Joe AchillesHOST
What was his name, Ped? Adam
PeteHOST
Collins, Red 10.
PeteHOST
Well, actually, I met him when he was Red 10.
PeteHOST
He was officer commanding of the Red Arrows when we had him on at Festival of Speed.
PeteHOST
That was cool.
PatrickHOST
Yeah, that was really cool.
Jon ParkinHOST
But if Dave's second, he wants the fucking awesome car, you know, white horse thing on top of the rear.
Jon ParkinHOST
Red Arrows.
Jon ParkinHOST
Yeah, he wants the fucking works, he said.
Jon ParkinHOST
But as I say, if Dave goes first, pure commotion.
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