{"id":2533,"date":"2018-03-10T16:38:45","date_gmt":"2018-03-10T16:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.egxwinfogroup.co.uk\/?p=2533"},"modified":"2018-03-10T16:43:59","modified_gmt":"2018-03-10T16:43:59","slug":"first-reds-9-ship-of-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.egxwinfogroup.co.uk\/?p=2533","title":{"rendered":"First Reds 9 Ship of 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At 1359z on Thursday 8th March 2018 9 Red Hawks of the Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team &#8220;The Red Arrows&#8221; were cleared for takeoff on Runway 22 at RAF Scampton for the first time ahead of the 2018 Display Season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" style=\"text-align: center;\">First 9 Ship for the 2018 season <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/y1lGeHGakv\">pic.twitter.com\/y1lGeHGakv<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2014 RAF Scampton Info (@EGXPinfo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EGXPinfo\/status\/971759412791644162?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 8, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This was the first time all 9 Aircraft have flown together during 2018 winter training and is a major landmark ahead of their Public Display Authority going into the 2018 Display Season. The 2018 team compromises of:<\/p>\n<p>Red 1: Team Leader Squadron Leader Martin Pert<\/p>\n<p>Red 2: Flight Lieutenant Jon Bond<\/p>\n<p>Red 3: Flight Lieutenant David Stark<\/p>\n<p>Red 4: Flight Lieutenant Chris Lyndon-Smith<\/p>\n<p>Red 5: Flight Lieutenant Dan Lowes<\/p>\n<p>Red 6: &#8211;\u00a0Synchro Leader Flight Lieutenant Si Taylor<\/p>\n<p>Red 7: &#8211;\u00a0Synchro Two Flight Lieutenant Toby Keeley<\/p>\n<p>Red 8: Flight Lieutenant Matt Masters<\/p>\n<p>Red 9: Flight Lieutenant Mike Bowden<\/p>\n<p>Red 10 &#8211; Supervisor Squadron Leader Adam Collins<\/p>\n<p>Officer Commanding &amp; Red 11:\u00a0 Wing Commander Andrew Keith RAF<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\"><p>\nA few more from The Red Arrows first 9 Ship practice for the 2018 Display Season (1\/2) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3qjKAKln5r\">pic.twitter.com\/3qjKAKln5r<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RAF Scampton Info (@EGXPinfo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EGXPinfo\/status\/971774124359081985?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 8, 2018<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The team will continue to practice at RAF Scampton until the depart to Greece on Exercise Springhawk in order to take advantage of the more stable weather in preparation for their Public Display Authority and their return to the UK to embark on the 2018 Display Season. They are rumoured to be departing Scampton for Springhawk around the 15th April however that is yet to be confirmed.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" style=\"text-align: center;\">A few more from The Red Arrows first 9 Ship practice for the 2018 Display Season (2\/2) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/p85Oq04dEL\">pic.twitter.com\/p85Oq04dEL<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2014 RAF Scampton Info (@EGXPinfo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EGXPinfo\/status\/971774833695608833?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 8, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Other than PDA the first 9 Ship is arguably the most anticipated moment in Winter Training by team and fans alike and was reflected in this tweet by Red 1:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\"><p>\nWell. That was definitely worth the wait. First 9-ship of 2018. Top job by all involved&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KFcwcL1rfo\">pic.twitter.com\/KFcwcL1rfo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Martin Pert &#8211; Red 1 (@RAFRed1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RAFRed1\/status\/971762223818444802?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 8, 2018<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nWe will continue to do our best to bring you as much flying info about the Red Arrows so keep an eye on our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.egxwinfogroup.co.uk\/?page_id=97\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Diary <\/a>and Twitter Account for Scampton <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EGXPinfo\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@EGXPinfo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 1359z on Thursday 8th March 2018 9 Red Hawks of the Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team &#8220;The Red Arrows&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scampton","category-redarrows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.egxwinfogroup.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.egxwinfogroup.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.egxwinfogroup.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.egxwinfogroup.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.egxwinfogroup.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2533"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.egxwinfogroup.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2540,"href":"http:\/\/www.egxwinfogroup.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533\/revisions\/2540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.egxwinfogroup.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.egxwinfogroup.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.egxwinfogroup.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.egxwinfogroup.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}