I suppose the answer to the above depends on to what degree 'being a Red' further inflates the average male fighter pilot's ego.
Last night when they mentioned the sole-ever female Red Arrows pilot I was expecting them to trot out that particular little scandal too, but they didn't.
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- Thu 28 Dec 2023, 1:05 pm
- Forum: Aviation Waffle
- Topic: Women viewed as ‘property’ in Red Arrows amid culture of male entitlement, RAF admits
- Replies: 27
- Views: 6949
- Thu 28 Dec 2023, 12:42 pm
- Forum: Aviation Waffle
- Topic: Women viewed as ‘property’ in Red Arrows amid culture of male entitlement, RAF admits
- Replies: 27
- Views: 6949
Re: Women viewed as ‘property’ in Red Arrows amid culture of male entitlement, RAF admits
I don't know about a permanent disbanding- though those aircraft are not going to last forever- but it was interesting to hear in the news report that grounding them for a year had been considered. Hell of a disruption to the flying currency, though. I've worked in a similarly male dominated environ...
- Wed 27 Dec 2023, 10:12 pm
- Forum: Aviation Waffle
- Topic: Women viewed as ‘property’ in Red Arrows amid culture of male entitlement, RAF admits
- Replies: 27
- Views: 6949
Re: Women viewed as ‘property’ in Red Arrows amid culture of male entitlement, RAF admits
I think it would have been far more helpful to have had the report published unredacted- for it to be made public who was sanctioned, how, and for what.
One wonders who is now policing the culture within the RAFAT, and if it has truly changed.
One wonders who is now policing the culture within the RAFAT, and if it has truly changed.
- Mon 11 Dec 2023, 9:20 am
- Forum: Aviation Waffle
- Topic: Can you identify a part?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3100
Re: Can you identify a part?
Yup, spot on, even the levers! Thank you! Here's one for sale-
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/185821891669
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/185821891669
- Sat 09 Dec 2023, 10:55 am
- Forum: Aviation Waffle
- Topic: Can you identify a part?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3100
Re: Can you identify a part?
Most of the levers are clearly bogus but the quadrant appears to be a real part from something.
- Wed 29 Nov 2023, 11:52 am
- Forum: Aviation Waffle
- Topic: Can you identify a part?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3100
Can you identify a part?
Hi- can anyone identify this please, which turned up in the new TARDIS in Doctor Who this week? Looks aircraft to me?
https://ibb.co/pvZ926n
https://ibb.co/pvZ926n
- Mon 12 Jun 2023, 9:38 pm
- Forum: Aviation Waffle
- Topic: Disband BBMF?
- Replies: 111
- Views: 13304
- Mon 12 Jun 2023, 10:31 am
- Forum: Aviation Waffle
- Topic: Disband BBMF?
- Replies: 111
- Views: 13304
Re: Disband BBMF?
Yes, you've made your point, more than once.
- Fri 09 Jun 2023, 10:53 am
- Forum: Aviation Waffle
- Topic: Disband BBMF?
- Replies: 111
- Views: 13304
Re: Disband BBMF?
The fact that nowhere in your small-minded diatribe do you mention commemoration or remembrance of the people the BBMF exists to honour speaks volumes. They are not just an 'airshow act provider', as you must surely know- which leads me to wonder if this is just trolling clickbait for the sake of it...
- Sat 14 May 2022, 6:05 pm
- Forum: Aviation Waffle
- Topic: Red Arrows - Seven aircraft display 2022
- Replies: 168
- Views: 35963
Re: Red Arrows - Seven aircraft display 2022
It will be interesting to see how honestly David Montenegro's forthcoming official history of the Reds will tackle events such as Kirsty and Ben...
- Fri 08 May 2020, 10:11 am
- Forum: Aviation Waffle
- Topic: RAF Flypasts VE Day
- Replies: 27
- Views: 6370
Re: RAF Flypasts VE Day
Twitter immediately full of comments about how many nurses that would that have paid for, polution, no one there to see it, etc etc. Makes you sick.
The dye team might want to explain why they just trailed three different shades of blue, mind you...
The dye team might want to explain why they just trailed three different shades of blue, mind you...
- Mon 25 Mar 2019, 12:20 pm
- Forum: Aviation Waffle
- Topic: Best Airshow That You Have Attended?
- Replies: 71
- Views: 10605
Re: Best Airshow That You Have Attended?
Just wish I was old enough to remember more of the Fighter Meet Airshows my Dad took me to in the late 80's / early 90's... the airfield attack scenarios stick in my mind, but the rest is hazy. That's a good point actually...even the basic old RAF 'At Home' days would have had some great content in...
- Mon 25 Mar 2019, 11:00 am
- Forum: Aviation Waffle
- Topic: Best Airshow That You Have Attended?
- Replies: 71
- Views: 10605
Re: Best Airshow That You Have Attended?
Just wish I was old enough to remember more of the Fighter Meet Airshows my Dad took me to in the late 80's / early 90's... the airfield attack scenarios stick in my mind, but the rest is hazy. That's a good point actually...even the basic old RAF 'At Home' days would have had some great content in...
- Fri 22 Mar 2019, 10:19 am
- Forum: Aviation Waffle
- Topic: Best Airshow That You Have Attended?
- Replies: 71
- Views: 10605
Re: Best Airshow That You Have Attended?
I enjoyed the final Great Warbirds at Wroughton, and there was a particularly jolly Badminton air day around that period too- a lovely sweet tree-lined airstrip which served to make the Lancaster look all the bigger when she appeared.
- Fri 15 Feb 2019, 1:05 pm
- Forum: Aviation Waffle
- Topic: Red Arrows in 2019
- Replies: 27
- Views: 4048
Re: Red Arrows in 2019
So it's not as if people will really miss anything, is it? YOU might not think so, but the wider, general airshow going public adores them. Indeed to many, they ARE an airshow. They also serve as a symbol of something for this country to be proud of at occasions such as Royal flypasts and the like....
- Fri 15 Feb 2019, 12:33 pm
- Forum: Aviation Waffle
- Topic: Red Arrows in 2019
- Replies: 27
- Views: 4048
Re: Red Arrows in 2019
You know, you could have just said nothing there...
- Mon 21 Jan 2019, 7:52 am
- Forum: Aviation Waffle
- Topic: Red Arrows Documentary Out In 2019
- Replies: 41
- Views: 9080
Re: Red Arrows Documentary Out In 2019
Compared to the narration on the 'Britain's Ultimate Pilots' series, it's a work of Shakespeare..!
- Fri 11 Jan 2019, 10:02 am
- Forum: Aviation Waffle
- Topic: Red Arrows Documentary Out In 2019
- Replies: 41
- Views: 9080
Re: Red Arrows Documentary Out In 2019
I'd sooner take a positive attitude to any new aviation documentary appearing on one of the main channels, seeing how few there usually are. And as it turns out, this was truly behind the scenes, not blighted by rubbish music or awful OTT commentary style, warts and all (Accidents aside, I don't thi...
- Fri 28 Sep 2018, 11:27 am
- Forum: Aviation Waffle
- Topic: RAFAT: In decline?
- Replies: 85
- Views: 13232
Re: RAFAT: In decline?
I don't think the Reds are in a decline at all- they do what they do very well, year in year out, and the general public love them; what a smaller proportion of more die-hard online enthusiasts think or want is fairly immaterial. But, I do fear that we may be into the last years of having the team a...
- Mon 23 Jul 2018, 6:52 am
- Forum: Aviation Waffle
- Topic: Where has XH558 thread gone?
- Replies: 2297
- Views: 361890
Re: Where has XH558 thread gone?
It was restored to flight, not restored to original/museum condition. It’s internally got some modern wiring, modern electrics , modern instruments and modern radio equipment. 'It looks like a Vulcan and sounds like a Vulcan, but it ain't a Vulcan'- direct quote to me from Andrew Edmondson, during ...
- Mon 09 Jul 2018, 9:47 am
- Forum: Seaside Shows
- Topic: Sunderland Airshow 2018
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5843
Re: Sunderland Airshow 2018
Must admit, for all that it's on my only real opportunity to see my beloved Lancaster each year and of course it's a free show, the crowds, very distant display line and fairly dull content just make it not worth bothering anymore.
- Tue 03 Apr 2018, 1:06 pm
- Forum: Warbird & Classic Jet Photos
- Topic: PA474 First air test of 2018
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2068
Re: PA474 First air test of 2018
Nice pics!
Funny how the bomb doors on '474 have never quite fit right at the back end!
Funny how the bomb doors on '474 have never quite fit right at the back end!
- Tue 05 Dec 2017, 8:26 am
- Forum: Aviation Waffle
- Topic: Airworthy 1/3 scale B-17
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2542
Re: Airworthy 1/3 scale B-17
Interesting...looks rather like a horrible accident waiting to happen though.
- Tue 10 Oct 2017, 1:45 pm
- Forum: Airshow Photos
- Topic: Re: Duxford weekend in B&W [Updated with colour shots!]
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4352
Re: Duxford weekend in B&W [Updated with colour shots!]
Crikey, the Lanc's wings look crinkly there!
- Tue 26 Sep 2017, 10:59 am
- Forum: Aviation Waffle
- Topic: Italian Typhoon display crash
- Replies: 29
- Views: 10405
Re: Italian Typhoon display crash
clearstone wrote:That is not the only image showing the aircraft in reheat during its final moments - https://www.agi.it/estero/eurofighter_caccia_precipitato_terracina_gabriele_orlandi-2185296/news/2017-09-25/
Thanks for that.