lisilou
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Hmm...What do you think? Good idea or not?
Lisa
Lisa
Airshow or not??
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jonic
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Went by car yesterday and the few who were there were rolling quite a bit.
jhr
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Yes - it looked a bit rolly from the beach at Boscombe, yesterday.
Have a look at the Bournemouth webcam - it's a bit moist at the moment.
Hate to say it but - swell apart - it was absolutely fab yesterday....
Have a look at the Bournemouth webcam - it's a bit moist at the moment.
Hate to say it but - swell apart - it was absolutely fab yesterday....
duncan
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went Thursday - and they cancelled it
Nauti Fox
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duncan
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indeed
there are some densely populated areas there and it's easy to presume the pilot chose to do his best to bring it down in that (large) field rather than eject.
whilst it's a relatively shallow river I can't help feeling it would have, literally, crashed into the far bank.
will monitor
lisilou
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We were approaching as the Red Arrows were doing their display. They appeared to have finished as we were pulling in to anchor. We were unaware that anything had gone wrong til we were on our return journey about 4.30. Did the pilot eject does anyone know yet?
duncan
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from the BBC article linked......
"One of the local farmers said they'd seen rescue teams pulling the pilot out of the river."
tinkicker0
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Pilot reported killed. Let's hope it's wrong.
lisilou
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Yes but did he eject safely or was he thrown from the aircraft when it crashed? Unknown as yet whether he survived.
lisilou
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Just heard the pilot didn't survive. Very sad.
Rick_A
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Boathook
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Fantasic display given by them as usual. Just hope that the paymasters allow them to continue if the pilots want to.
duncan
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I realise this was earlier, and that the sad news is now out.
ITN carry the following -
"Flt Lt Egging is said to have guided the plane away from houses and people before it smashed into a field and came to a standstill with its nose in the River Stour near the village of Throop on Saturday." and whilst it's written as conjecture, in the same way as my original post, it's standard procedure for professional display teams - and the Red Arrows are amongst the best.
Whether he attempted to eject at the very last minute (pretty much on the ground in one of those), and whether there was as equipment failure in the ejector's rocket systems etc will be established in due course.