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Red Arrows' Future in Doubt?
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Barkingbiker



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 8:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Brilliant shots of the Sparrows Cherskiy, thanks for posting them.

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 8:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ella Sailyour wrote:
Wonderful pix, Cherskiy. What camera and lens are you using for these?

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I have a Canon 350D with a 300D as back-up (busy saving for a Canon 1DS Mk.II and a 400D as back-up at the moment).

The lens is a Canon L-series Image Stablised f/4.5-5.6 100-400mm - which when taking the crop factor into account with a Canon DSLR, translates to a 160-640mm lens. (Busy saving for a f/2.8 400mm IS so I can bolt a 1.4x or x2 converter on - so equivalent 896 and 1280mm lens - just what I need for marginal weather and smaller targets.)
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 8:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Some good kit there - and by the results alone you know how to get the best out of it. Well done.

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PostPosted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 5:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I presume that everyone who signed up now has Tony's email.
Tony says - disband the Red Arrows? - Not on my Watch! Very Happy Very Happy Very Happy Very Happy
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 7:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, Tony's 'watch' won't last much longer, so anything he says in that regard you can take with a pinch of salt. A new broom = all bets are off.

"No plans...." and "fully intend...." aren't exactly airtight phrases, plenty of wiggle-room there. Just as, of course, you'd expect.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 7:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes it's all spin, close RAF Chivenor, to save money, now it's RNAS Chivenor, close RAF Wattisham to save money, now it's AAC Barracks Wattisham. They closed RAF Scampton to save money and had to re-open it again, they don't save any money overall, just spend less on one budget and more on another. It will just depend on whose budget they need to save money on as to whether the Arrows are disbanded, or not. Evil or Very Mad

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PostPosted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 7:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I Think, at worst, the Arrows will be moved. After all, you cannot have such a national treasure north of Watford Gap, Can you? Mad
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 12:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Behind Geddon's Wall wrote:
I Think, at worst, the Arrows will be moved. After all, you cannot have such a national treasure north of Watford Gap, Can you? Mad


Are there still any RAF bases south of Watford Gap? Laughing
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 12:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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St Mawgan ... - Cornwall... Smile
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 4:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yep, I know about those ones - I was thinking about the Reds trying to operate from Halton. Laughing

BTW, you missed out Benson and Odiham, unless they've closed them since the last times I visited them....
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 6:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Behind Geddon's Wall wrote:
I Think, at worst, the Arrows will be moved. After all, you cannot have such a national treasure north of Watford Gap, Can you? Mad


I cannea see what yer meanin BGW, I was called a suven shady drinker by a bloke from sarfff Yorkshire yesterday. How much further sarfff is Chesterfield to Doncaster, as the Sparrows fly?

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 7:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Did you all get your replies from Tony Blair even before the petition has been closed?

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 8:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, I certainly got a reply from TB - can't remember whether the poll had closed by then or not.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 9:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cherskiy wrote:
Yep, I know about those ones - I was thinking about the Reds trying to operate from Halton. Laughing

BTW, you missed out Benson and Odiham, unless they've closed them since the last times I visited them....

Odiham is still very much open. Those 'wokka-wokkas' still rattle the windows when they fly over!!
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 2:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Helen May wrote:
Did you all get your replies from Tony Blair even before the petition has been closed?

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Yes it sent before the poll closed. The reply pointed this out.
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 6:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That's why I mentioned it.

I think we could also take it that Blair was replying from No10 whilst he was still there, as by the time the petition closes he may no longer be the leader of the Labour party or the Prime Minister.

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PostPosted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 6:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dug out some more shots from last year's Windermere Airshow - needless to say I was nowhere near the crowd line for these: I don't usually look for 'air shots' since the last one is more my thing, but they've come out alright I suppose.... Very Happy








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