Red Arrows Unveil New Colors

Post by **Lawndart** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 10:53 am

For the first time in 28 years, the British Royal Air Force demonstration team, the Red Arrows have modified the paint scheme of its Hawks.

...not too much though!

Deb Mitchell @ ASB wrote:Defence News
Equipment and Logistics

Red Arrows unveil new look aircraft
31 Oct 07
The Red Arrows aerobatic display team has today, Wednesday 31 October 2007, unveiled a new paint scheme for its Hawk aircraft, the first change to the world-famous design since the Red Arrows took delivery of the aircraft in 1979.

http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/Defen ... rcraft.htm

Post by **Gunner** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 11:07 am

Dead link

pbrad · Post by **pbrad** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 11:43 am

Worked for me.

Burner · Post by **Burner** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 12:30 pm

Works here, I wonder if they changed the white bird/arrow on the belly.

Racer · Post by **Racer** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 1:18 pm

Looks like they just moved the "Royal Air Force" from the front of the fuse to the intake side. Much larger letters though.

Stryker · Post by **Stryker** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 2:35 pm

Will this mean an update already for the vRA mod?

Thumper · Post by **Thumper** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 3:43 pm

Stryker wrote:Will this mean an update already for the vRA mod?

Thats going to be quite tricky since, according to one of Ells' posts, all of the support equipment has been deployed to Raz.

Burner · Post by **Burner** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 5:57 pm

Thumper wrote:
Stryker wrote:Will this mean an update already for the vRA mod?
Thats going to be quite tricky since, according to one of Ells' posts, all of the support equipment has been deployed to Raz.

Racer · Post by **Racer** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 8:37 pm

Well, don't the teams carry a can of each color with them and a
couple of foam brushes???
Hell, who's going to tell at 500mph.

Post by **Lawndart** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 10:38 pm

Racer wrote:Hell, who's going to tell at 500mph.

Probably everyone reading this post!

Ells · Post by **Ells** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 6:00 am

The paint was in the back of one of the 130's

You can expect to see the new colours on the VRA jets in the New Year, seeing as Beaster is planning to fly the VFAT team as low to a lake as possible to clean off the mud ready for the new paint job

Edit > Email received re the belly:

Dear Chris,

Underneath the aircraft has remained the same.

Yours sincerely,

Senior Aircraftman Ann Muldowney
Public Relations Assistant
Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team (The Red Arrows)

Royal Air Force Scampton,
Lincolnshire,
LN1 2ST

Tel: +44 (0) 1522 733110
Fax: +44 (0) 1522 733003
www.raf.mod.uk/reds

Ells · Post by **Ells** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 4:45 am

After the awesome job the guys did on Saturday at VFAT2007, Beaster orderd the Blues ground crew to paint up one of the BAE Hawk T1 jets in the new 2008 colours.

Look out for our new mod soon.
http://www.virtualredarrows.com

Burner · Post by **Burner** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 10:50 am

Very nice, you guys did a great job at VFAT, looking forward to some screenshots with the new mod.

Tailhook · Post by **Tailhook** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 2:51 pm

Looks great, but why is the tail texture look like it is distorted?

Ells · Post by **Ells** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 4:19 pm

Many thanks Burner and an awesome show you guys did too.

Looks ok on my screen Viper, I'll check it out in game.