SV650.org - SV650 & Gladius 650 Forum



Idle Banter For non SV and non bike related chat (and the odd bit of humour - but if any post isn't suitable it'll get deleted real quick).
There's also a "U" rating so please respect this. Newbies can also say "hello" here too.

Reply
 
Thread Tools
Old 01-07-18, 05:07 PM   #1
Seeker
Member
Mega Poster
 
Seeker's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 2016
Location: NE Lincs
Posts: 1,065
Default Armed Forces Weekend

It was Armed Forces Weekend in Cleethorpes and the flying display has just concluded with a performance by the Red Arrows. Typical well polished and skillful flying which culminated in 3 aircraft writing "100" in the sky to celebrate 100 years of the RAF, great job!

They're based at Scampton and I remember working on the ILS glidepath transmitter there, hearing a strange jet whistling noise, looked out and an American B52 was doing an approach.
Seeker is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-07-18, 05:22 PM   #2
SV650rules
Member
Mega Poster
 
Join Date: Nov 2016
Location: Shropshire UK
Posts: 1,357
Default Re: Armed Forces Weekend

Saw the red arrows flying above Sydney Harbour from a friends boat when we lived in Oz, was very dramatic as harbour near to bridge is pretty well surrounded by buildings, and this gave an impression of speed and magnified the sound, IIRC two of the planes flew under the harbour bridge.

They are great ambassadors for UK.
__________________
2016 SV650 AL7

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear - Mark Twain
SV650rules is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply

Thread Tools

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump

Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
Armed Forces Day Battle of Britain Flight Bluepete Photos 10 30-06-14 11:17 AM
Armed Forces Day Jamesy D Idle Banter 16 29-06-10 04:23 PM
Who is/was in the Armed Forces? Geoffrey Idle Banter 163 02-10-08 04:52 PM
Who's in (or been in) the Armed Forces jamessunhill Idle Banter 71 01-03-08 03:48 PM
Bullying in the Armed Forces... RAF the Worse! Cloggsy Idle Banter 13 10-10-07 01:48 AM


All times are GMT. The time now is 11:48 AM.


Powered by vBulletin® - Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.