Red Arrows grounded over ejector seat fears (From Bournemouth Echo)
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Red Arrows grounded over ejector seat fears
9:26am Tuesday 3rd August 2010 in News By Steven Smith
Red Arrows grounded over ejector seat fears
ALL RAF Hawk aircraft – the model used by the Red Arrows – have been grounded due to safety fears.
The training planes were stopped from flying when engineers detected a fault with the ejector seat on one of the craft during an inspection at RAF Valley on Anglesey in Wales.
Hawks at three other stations have also been grounded and will not be permitted to fly until each plane has been inspected.
The Red Arrows are due to fly at Cowes on Friday, Swanage Carnival this weekend and at Bournemouth Air Festival, which takes place between August 19 and 22.
It is not known how long the inspection will take or how it will impact on the team's schedule.
More follows.
Comments(19)
pb24
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11:27am Tue 3 Aug 10
boracay
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12:32pm Tue 3 Aug 10
180169
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1:43pm Tue 3 Aug 10
madfromdorset
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2:30pm Tue 3 Aug 10
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I stopped buying the paper, not because I review it online, but I refuse to pay for a paper that is full of advertising, with barely a few pages of news, which taken up with National and International News, with very little on local issues. At least reviewing it online, I make my own choice.
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Sorry Echo, you asked on enough surveys, it is time the truth was known.
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Incidentally, there is certainly nothing in the Red Arrows website news of this story, and all displays are as planned, and remain so.
KLH
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2:44pm Tue 3 Aug 10
Fingers crossed everything will go as planned!!
Sam Shepherd
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3:14pm Tue 3 Aug 10
MadfromDorset, I'd have to take issue with you over the content of today's paper, which has one single column of national and international news among 20 pages of local stories. Perhaps you should buy a copy, you might be surprised...
We're also sorry if you all knew the Hawks had been grounded - we weren't aware of it until last night and so we assumed there'd be lots of our readers who hadn't either.
We're keeping our fingers crossed, of course, that the inspections will show everything to be okay and the Red Arrows will indeed be soaring over Swanage on Saturday - and incidentally, there'll be a page of pictures from the carnival in Monday's paper, so do make sure you get a copy ;)
McVICAR
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3:42pm Tue 3 Aug 10
Sam Shepherd wrote:This story concerning the grounding of the red arrows was in fact in the daily mail and daily star last week, if the Bournemouth Echo did not know about this i think that your researchers are not doing their job, espicially with the imminent return of the Bournemouth air festival.
Hi there everyone, your pesky neighbourhood web watcher here.
MadfromDorset, I'd have to take issue with you over the content of today's paper, which has one single column of national and international news among 20 pages of local stories. Perhaps you should buy a copy, you might be surprised...
We're also sorry if you all knew the Hawks had been grounded - we weren't aware of it until last night and so we assumed there'd be lots of our readers who hadn't either.
We're keeping our fingers crossed, of course, that the inspections will show everything to be okay and the Red Arrows will indeed be soaring over Swanage on Saturday - and incidentally, there'll be a page of pictures from the carnival in Monday's paper, so do make sure you get a copy ;)
TinyLegacy
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4:10pm Tue 3 Aug 10
McVICAR wrote:Oh god, give it a rest. I dont get time to read the national papers and this is the first ive heard of it too. I just hope everything's sorted in time for the Bournemouth show, i'm sure it will be.
Sam Shepherd wrote: Hi there everyone, your pesky neighbourhood web watcher here. MadfromDorset, I'd have to take issue with you over the content of today's paper, which has one single column of national and international news among 20 pages of local stories. Perhaps you should buy a copy, you might be surprised... We're also sorry if you all knew the Hawks had been grounded - we weren't aware of it until last night and so we assumed there'd be lots of our readers who hadn't either. We're keeping our fingers crossed, of course, that the inspections will show everything to be okay and the Red Arrows will indeed be soaring over Swanage on Saturday - and incidentally, there'll be a page of pictures from the carnival in Monday's paper, so do make sure you get a copy ;)This story concerning the grounding of the red arrows was in fact in the daily mail and daily star last week, if the Bournemouth Echo did not know about this i think that your researchers are not doing their job, espicially with the imminent return of the Bournemouth air festival.
McVICAR
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4:56pm Tue 3 Aug 10
Currently the entire Royal Air Forces Hawk Aircraft fleet have been grounded, including the
Red Arrows Aerobatic Team, as we use this type of Aircraft. As to displays more information
will be released upon investigation by The Royal Air Force.
KLH
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7:10pm Tue 3 Aug 10
Looking forward to watching her.
ta2
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7:48pm Tue 3 Aug 10
McVICAR wrote:I don't read either of those papers, and I managed to miss it on the BBC News website.
Sam Shepherd wrote:This story concerning the grounding of the red arrows was in fact in the daily mail and daily star last week, if the Bournemouth Echo did not know about this i think that your researchers are not doing their job, espicially with the imminent return of the Bournemouth air festival.
Hi there everyone, your pesky neighbourhood web watcher here.
MadfromDorset, I'd have to take issue with you over the content of today's paper, which has one single column of national and international news among 20 pages of local stories. Perhaps you should buy a copy, you might be surprised...
We're also sorry if you all knew the Hawks had been grounded - we weren't aware of it until last night and so we assumed there'd be lots of our readers who hadn't either.
We're keeping our fingers crossed, of course, that the inspections will show everything to be okay and the Red Arrows will indeed be soaring over Swanage on Saturday - and incidentally, there'll be a page of pictures from the carnival in Monday's paper, so do make sure you get a copy ;)
mta
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7:53pm Tue 3 Aug 10
Loyal2AFCB
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9:04pm Tue 3 Aug 10
Wimwam
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10:40pm Tue 3 Aug 10
Purbeckboy
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10:46pm Tue 3 Aug 10
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Puj
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2:28am Wed 4 Aug 10
I'm pretty sure the 'Reds' would get priority over other Hawk aircraft/sqns.
They are comming to Bournemouth @ 3.30 Thursday according to thier :
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KLH
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1:55pm Wed 4 Aug 10
If the Reds show, they show, if they don't they don't. I'm hoping they will make it obviously, but i'm not going to get too worked up about it if they don't....
Norman Mead
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10:30am Wed 11 Aug 10
McVICAR wrote:Ooh, ooh, important news. McVICAR has received a stock-reply email from the RAF. Wow, he must be very important to receive such a message: really in the know, I'll bet. And what does the email say? Erm, nothing that we didn't know already. But McVICAR just wanted to show that he'd received the message to show everyone how big and clever he is.
I have just received the folowing information from R.A.F Scampton via email.
Currently the entire Royal Air Forces Hawk Aircraft fleet have been grounded, including the
Red Arrows Aerobatic Team, as we use this type of Aircraft. As to displays more information
will be released upon investigation by The Royal Air Force.
dizzy17 says...
10:19am Tue 3 Aug 10