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colt41
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Hawks

Post by colt41 » Thu Mar 25, 2021 1:31 pm

Can someone tell me if 100sqn hawks are still flying.
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06L
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Re: Hawks

Post by 06L » Thu Mar 25, 2021 10:00 pm

They haven’t flown all week.
Pilots are apparently refusing to fly them due to them not being airworthy.
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Fighterfoto
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Re: Hawks

Post by Fighterfoto » Thu Mar 25, 2021 10:14 pm

06L wrote: ↑
Thu Mar 25, 2021 10:00 pm
 Pilots are apparently refusing to fly them due to them not being airworthy.
Completely false.
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David Thompson
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Re: Hawks

Post by David Thompson » Thu Mar 25, 2021 10:25 pm

The airfield has been NOTAM'ed closed since Monday , 22nd and re-opened again at 09:00 this morning and a single Hawk departed around 09:40 .

The closure could be due to the ongoing UNITE/Babcock strike action involving their staff who work on 100 Squadron ?
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FergiZA600
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Re: Hawks

Post by FergiZA600 » Fri Mar 26, 2021 7:07 pm

Been told today their won't be any Hawk T.1 flights for a while after yesterdays crash involving a Navy T.1
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Nighthawke
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Re: Hawks

Post by Nighthawke » Fri Mar 26, 2021 9:05 pm

Not true - well maybe some truth, but the Reds flew back from Valley today.
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bizfreeq
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Re: Hawks

Post by bizfreeq » Fri Mar 26, 2021 10:20 pm

Statement on the Reds official twitter today stating the RAF are now flying their Hawks again
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Agent K
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Re: Hawks

Post by Agent K » Mon Mar 29, 2021 8:00 am

06L wrote: ↑
Thu Mar 25, 2021 10:00 pm
 They haven’t flown all week.
Pilots are apparently refusing to fly them due to them not being airworthy.
Not the case at all, that is not how you operate and manage aircraft. If they're airworthy, they'll fly them, if not (and that's not been the case at all) they would be grounded by the Engineering authority so they wouldn't be able to fly them anyway. They're a little more professional than a dodgy flying club!
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06L
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Re: Hawks

Post by 06L » Tue Mar 30, 2021 7:08 pm

Agent K, I posted second hand information, which is why I used the word ‘apparently’, as I myself wasn’t certain if it was genuine or not. This time the info actually proved to be wrong.

Nobody else had replied to the original poster at the time, so I decided it was worth saying something, despite that now being incorrect.
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