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Evening All.

I have found this on a website i visit quite often

I have highlighted the approx times in purple. So heads up on the Kintyre

H3047/11: Formation flying will take place
Q) EGXX/QWVLW/IV/M/W/000/030/5346N00334W145
FORMATION TRANSIT BY RED ARROWS ACFT ROUTING:
5145N 00135W (BRIZE NORTON) 0730 HR
5201N 00139W (VCY MORETON IN THE MARSH) 0734 HR
5231N 00325W (VCY NEWTON) 0746 HR
5316N 00339W (VCY COLWYN BAY) 0753 HR
5422N 00255W (WINDERMERE) 0805 HR
5500N 00337W (VCY DUMFRIES) 0813 HR
5531N 00547W (VCY CAMPBELTOWN) 0826 HR
5546N 00535W (TARBERT) 0828 HR
5531N 00435W (PRESTWICK) 0835 HR
FORMATION PLANS TO TRANSIT AT 2000FT AGL. TIMINGS, HGT AND ROUTE ARE
APRX AND MAY CHANGE DUE TO WX OR OTHER REQUIREMENTS.
11-07-0456/ AS 1
LOWER: Surface, UPPER: 3,000 Feet AMSL
FROM: 12 Jul 2011 07:20 GMT (08:20 BST) TO: 12 Jul 2011 08:45 GMT (09:45 BST)

Great. I'll be in town next Tuesday at that time.

5531N 00547W (VCY CAMPBELTOWN) 0826 HR
5546N 00535W (TARBERT) 0828 HR

Campbeltown to Tarbert in 2 minutes. That's even faster than a McKerrals lorry!

Not sure, but you may have to add an hour onto that for British Summer Time?

I think your right Tickety Boo!

Praying for clear weather for you guys on the Kintyre, it will be over very quickly as they are transit flying, and dont forget you can put a request in FOC for the Red Arrows to do a fly past and they will endeavour to fit in your event or occasion.

Here's the link - http://www.raf.mod.uk/reds/displayinfo/ ... lypast.cfm

I heard that the times have changed, will be over Clachan for 0914 hrs.

They weren't exactly 'overhead' at Campbeltown. I caught a brief glimpse of them just to the north of Knockscalbert heading northwest at 9.11 this morning.

Was watching for them from the hiil ahint Peninver ----- saw them comming accross the firth frae Ayrshire headin towards the Toon - --- Oh aye, an jist a wee bit quicker ' than a McKerrals lorry ' --very neat formation !

Manage to catch them this morning, they were about 2 miles away so not as much of a close up as I'd hoped for.

Here's the background to the Red Arrows' 12 July visit to Kintyre: http://midargyllkintyrenews.com/2011/07/16/red-arrows-fly-past-at-clachan/

MAK_News wrote:Here's the background to the Red Arrows' 12 July visit to Kintyre: http://midargyllkintyrenews.com/2011/07/16/red-arrows-fly-past-at-clachan/

What a tribute to a fellow pilot and sadly the team have lost another pilot this week past due to an unfortunate accident.

Cheers MAK News for sharing this clip and photos.I have followed the Red Arrows for years with many pics taken of them performing at RAF Leuchar's and other places.

Thanks for posting that link - great to read about it

Many thanks for your comments re the Red Arrows piece. This week has, indeed, been another sad one for the team.

This is indeed a lovely piece put together about the Red Arrows visit.

Towards the end of the piece the following statement is made, somewhat hesitantly:

"We understand also that, over and above the MacLachlan family’s holiday connection with Clachan, Neil’s forebears actually farmed at Dunskeig."

This is true, and in fact many relations of Neil and his family still live in Kintyre ... and even post on this forum

Mary G wrote:.......

"We understand also that, over and above the MacLachlan family’s holiday connection with Clachan, Neil’s forebears actually farmed at Dunskeig."

This is true, and in fact many relations of Neil and his family still live in Kintyre ... and even post on this forum

Thanks, Mary. I hope they enjoy the article.

Outstanding tribute to Flight Lieutenant Neil MacLachlan from his friends and colleagues. And lest we forget, fellow Red arrow pilots Flight Lieutenant Sean Cunningham and Flight Lieutenant Jon Egging who have passed over the bar recently. Again, a great tribute by a bunch of brave blokes. Pity we in the wider world didn't hear so much about it.