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New Red Arrows pilots named
Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2015 12:20 am
by Gary
One of the new Red Arrows pilots has been named, not seen the name of the second pilot as mentioned in the article?
Yorkshire pilot named amongst new Red Arrows team
An RAF pilot from Yorkshire has been named as one of two new Red arrows pilots who will take to the skies next season.
Flight Lieutenant Si Taylor from Leeds has just joined the famous nine who're based at RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire.
He will now undergo extensive training ahead of the formal display season next year. Si will be Red 3 and says it took him two attempts to get in. He is apprehensive and excited:
Info from
Calendar News
Re: Yorkshire pilot named amongst new Red Arrows team
Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2015 12:28 am
by Gary
Red 2 has been named on Twitter as FL Lt Matt Masters
ed 1 @RAFRed1 Sep 22
First training sortie for 2016 complete. Welcome to the new Red 2 and 3.
https://twitter.com/RAFRed1
Re: Yorkshire pilot named amongst new Red Arrows team
Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2015 6:03 pm
by GhostFlight91
go on lads
Re: Yorkshire pilot named amongst new Red Arrows team
Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2015 5:10 pm
by Hawkeyes
Red 2, Matt Masterson lately 100 Sqdn is the one on the steps
Re: Yorkshire pilot named amongst new Red Arrows team
Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2015 5:44 pm
by KINROTATE
E by gum!
Re: Yorkshire pilot named amongst new Red Arrows team
Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2015 7:54 pm
by Dazza37
Why is the fact that one of the new pilots is from Yorkshire deemed to be newsworthy, whilst where the other one hails from is not?
-Dazza
Re: Yorkshire pilot named amongst new Red Arrows team
Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2015 11:07 pm
by Gary
Dazza
The original news article came from the local Yorkshire / Lincolnshire ITV news, so of course they were going to put a local spin on the article. I was just about to power the computer down for the evening and didn't get around to changing the title to something different.
Re: New Red Arrows pilots named
Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2015 12:42 pm
by Dazza37
Ah, ok, I get it now, I should've noticed it was a regional news article!
-Dazza