The British Are Coming! RAF Red Arrows visit NY

[moose135]

The Royal Air Force "Red Arrows" demonstration team (the British equivalent of the USAF Thunderbirds) is on a rare North American tour, performing at a number of air shows, this month. This week, they paid us a visit here in New York. This is the first time the team has flown over New York City. They arrived at Republic Airport on Long Island Wednesday afternoon, then performed a show off of Staten Island, over New York Harbor. They left us this afternoon, en route to Rhode Island for this weekend's air show.

Arriving at Republic:
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Looks like rush hour on the Long Island Expressway
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The show over NYC
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Some after-hours shooting back at Republic
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Getting the jet ready for the flight out of town
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Preflight briefing
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Keeping it low on departure!
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This is the first time I've seen the Red Arrows in close to 30 years, and I was thoroughly amazed at the performance they put on.

More photos here (http://moose135.smugmug.com/gallery/5262319_FvX43/1/320242939_VXjo4)

[LUCKYSHOT]

Nice gallery of pictures, (as always) I wish I knew they were at Republic, I live right down rt 110 in Plainview.
All the best
Chris

[Skippy]

The Royal Air Force "Red Arrows" demonstration team (the British equivalent of the USAF Thunderbirds) is on a rare North American tour, performing at a number of air shows, this month. This week, they paid us a visit here in New York. This is the first time the team has flown over New York City. They arrived at Republic Airport on Long Island Wednesday afternoon, then performed a show off of Staten Island, over New York Harbor. They left us this afternoon, en route to Rhode Island for this weekend's air show.
Arriving at Republic:
Looks like rush hour on the Long Island Expressway
The show over NYC
Some after-hours shooting back at Republic
Getting the jet ready for the flight out of town
Preflight briefing
Keeping it low on departure!
This is the first time I've seen the Red Arrows in close to 30 years, and I was thoroughly amazed at the performance they put on.
More photos here (http://moose135.smugmug.com/gallery/5262319_FvX43/1/320242939_VXjo4)

Wow !! they worry me when I see them fly sooooo close together,
I can't help but begin to pray and hope nothing goes wrong.

These are excellent Moose, there's something about formation flying that I just love ... thank you for sharing these with us :clap :clap

Skippy :D
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[draggin]

Nice set of pictures Moose glad you enjoyed our Red Arrows :wink The planes they fly (The Hawk) is the planes RAF pilots train on as there first jet aircraft.

Seen the red arrows many times, they never cease to amazes me.

I live about 2 miles (as a crow flys) from our local (civilian) airport and when the Red Arrows are displaying in the south and west of the UK they normally rest overnight at this airport. Being on the flight path we quite often see them coming in and going out.

Can't wait until August as there is an airshow at said airport, might spend one day at the show and the other day in the back garden.

more red arrow info here

http://www.raf.mod.uk/reds/

Tim

[Herman Auer]

Very nice selection, Moose. Well done!:thumb
Pity they were not here in The Netherlands this year. :cry If so, I would have specifically attended the recent airshow in Leeuwarden...

Cheers - Herman

[Vycor]

I took wish I knew about them. Im in lindenhurst... i saw them flying over lindy when i was going to get a haircut