BOB flight

[Seaking]

Don't know if this has been posted somewhere else on the site, only just came across it.
My god what ever is next to protecting our so precious heritage what's left of it.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... light.html

[airboatr]

hopefully the right people will come to thier senses and keep the program funded.
btw , I liked that second piccie of the red arrows, excellent perspective ,
...and the terrain is looking FSXish

[Garry Russell]

This is dusgusting

[AndyG]

Guys, this is a typical Daily Mail scare story that will, as ever, likely come to nothing. It's about this time every year that they publish one of these (if I recall correctly, the for the last two years they have had positive proof that the Red Arrows were being disbanded) and they have yet to be proven right. In my personal opinion this country would be rather better served if we could disband the Daily Mail as part of the defence cuts!!

[SkippyBing]

Every year about this time when MoD realises they don't have enough money, all three services draw up a list of proposed cuts, and every year the Reds appear on it as do a number of other things and the Daily Mail gets all hormonal about it.
The BoB Flight costs essentially nothing, in fact I think it's absorbed by Coningsby's budget the numbers are so small in the scheme of things. Meanwhile the biggest threat to the Reds is the impending retirement of the Hawk T1.

[Garry Russell]

IS the BoB still voluntary run and flown by crew in their own time??

[Nigel H-J]

Absolutely disgusting however, as SkippyBing wrote, it seems to be an annual exercise by the Ministry of Defence, they will find the cutbacks but feel these will be RAF Stations more than anything else.

Here you are Garry.

http://www.raf.mod.uk/bbmf/thecrews/pil ... ircrew.cfm

Regards
Nigel.

[Garry Russell]

Thanks for the link Nigel

[Hot_Charlie]

IS the BoB still voluntary run and flown by crew in their own time??

The OC (Pilot), admin and engineering staff are full time, some reservists. The other aircrew do alongside their everyday jobs.

[Quixoticish]

This is the Daily Mail we're talking about. Keep that in mind before you get outraged.