Red Arrows to Fly Foreign Built / Designed Aircraft?

[stephec]

We see them regularly flying over our house.

Do you live on the white cliffs of Dover? 😂

 

[Sharky]

Do you live on the white cliffs of Dover? 😂

No, about 4 miles from Brands Hatch.

They fly out of Biggin Hill and one of their shorter loops goes over us, to the QE2 bridge.

Longer routes go over Leeds Castle and White Cliffs.

 

[Moon bunny]

With proven RAMS provided; before a permit to work gets issued.

WW3 would be over before the UK even began keeping the woke crowd happy….

I hope all RAF aircrew’s “working at heights” training is up to date.

 

[Jameshow]

How many Spitfires have we got left in flying condition, could we scratch together 10 of those?

There was one flying over bingley at Ives yesterday!
Oh sorry it was model!

 

[Hover Fly]

How many Spitfires have we got left in flying condition, could we scratch together 10 of those?

Go the whole hog and get a few English Electric Lightnings together.

 

[Jameshow]

Go the whole hog and get a few English Electric Lightnings together.

Would they make it from city airport to buck palace before running out of fuel?!🤣

 

[CXRAndy]

The UK itself doesn't make or do any big projects anymore.

My friend lives directly next to a new solar farm being installed. He tells me the company installing it is Greek, virtually all the staff are foreign, all the kit is Chinese, solar panels, transformers etc.

Why couldn't a British company do that, even if they had to source the materials from abroad.

Better still we(UK) could have made the products too, there are several solar panel makers in the UK.

No profits for UK companies or work for British people

 

[Illaveago]

The UK itself doesn't make or do any big projects anymore.

My friend lives directly next to a new solar farm being installed. He tells me the company installing it is Greek, virtually all the staff are foreign, all the kit is Chinese, solar panels, transformers etc.

Why couldn't a British company do that, even if they had to source the materials from abroad.

Better still we(UK) could have made the products too, there are several solar panel makers in the UK.

No profits for UK companies or work for British people

Yes. That is the problem of buying off the shelf. It might seem cheap but you will lose jobs and skills in doing so.

 

[classic33]

There's the Hawk 200.

 

[dicko]

Back in the 1960s the RAF Black Arrows was the display team of the time, living on RAF camps they were a regular visitor.

 

[Jameshow]

Back in the 1960s the RAF Black Arrows was the display team of the time, living on RAF camps they were a regular visitor.

Hawker hunter

 

[Time Waster]

The UK itself doesn't make or do any big projects anymore.

My friend lives directly next to a new solar farm being installed. He tells me the company installing it is Greek, virtually all the staff are foreign, all the kit is Chinese, solar panels, transformers etc.

Why couldn't a British company do that, even if they had to source the materials from abroad.

Better still we(UK) could have made the products too, there are several solar panel makers in the UK.

No profits for UK companies or work for British people

I beg to differ. We build all our new frigates and nuclear submarines and always have. If you do not think they class as big projects you do not know what you are talking about. We also have RR who are heavily into nuclear in the UK, plus other UK based companies or UK based manufacturing sites. There used to be a lot of siemens built wind turbines in the NE England manufacturing sites too.

This idea is totally wrong but I can understand when we are buying F35s (also have BAES as a major partner in the design and build of them). Or our politicians and civil servants mess up HS2 (started by not carrying on with the HS1 team who apparently carried out that rather large project on time and to budget or under it but the panel of civil service mandarins advising the government told them the HS1 team did not have enough experience of large projects but you could continue to changing the goal posts last minute as well).

Or it does not have to be big neither as we provide niche products that other nations need but cannot get elsewhere to the same quality that is needed. Then there is the fact that we provide knowledge services worldwide, such as having some of the most respected architects and engineers who design and even manage the build of huge infrastructure overseas. This is all good things that is being written off by that statement.

We simply do not promote the good only the bad, especially a lot of people on here.