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Anyone interested this the Red Arrows schedule.

Scampton - 10.44am 
Lincoln - 10.46am 
Horncastle - 10.48am 
Keyingham - 10.52am 
Biller Howe - 11.00am 
Over the sea near Newcastle - 11.08am 
Berwick Upon Tweed - 11.16am 
Over the sea near Eyemouth - 11.19am 
Over the sea near St Andrews- 11.23am 
Over the sea near Longniddry- 11.28am 
Over the sea near  near Prestonpans- 11.29am 
Edinburgh - 11.29am 
Edinburgh - 11.30am 
Prestwick - 11.39am

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Better call Saul

Is the 2 minute silence for VJ day a new thing? The work wants us to to do it... Can't recall it happening before 

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Cancelled? We heard loud aircraft noise and ran out to the garden but the low cloud cover meant we couldn't see anything. Assumed it was the Red Arrows. ☹️ 

 

Edit: apparently it was them we heard 😁

 

The flights were able to be heard from a distance, but the low cloud forced the planned flypast over Edinburgh Castle to be called off.

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highlandjambo3
14 hours ago, The Real Maroonblood said:

Anyone interested this the Red Arrows schedule.

Scampton - 10.44am 
Lincoln - 10.46am 
Horncastle - 10.48am 
Keyingham - 10.52am 
Biller Howe - 11.00am 
Over the sea near Newcastle - 11.08am 
Berwick Upon Tweed - 11.16am 
Over the sea near Eyemouth - 11.19am 
Over the sea near St Andrews- 11.23am 
Over the sea near Longniddry- 11.28am 
Over the sea near  near Prestonpans- 11.29am 
Edinburgh - 11.29am 
Edinburgh - 11.30am 
Prestwick - 11.39am

Bombing run Glasgow - 1145

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8 minutes ago, highlandjambo3 said:

Bombing run Glasgow - 1145

 

I was in Glasgow a couple of weeks ago, was that bombing run not last year? 🥴

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highlandjambo3
4 minutes ago, graygo said:

 

I was in Glasgow a couple of weeks ago, was that bombing run not last year? 🥴

Yes it was.......it’s a regular thing, there are a lot of targets.

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Just to confirm that today’s Edinburgh Red Arrows Flypast was not cancelled because the SFA and SPFL discovered the flight plan took them over Tynecastle Park giving Hearts unfair exposure.

 

Although in the current climate...

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41 minutes ago, The Spy Who Loved Me said:

Just to confirm that today’s Edinburgh Red Arrows Flypast was not cancelled because the SFA and SPFL discovered the flight plan took them over Tynecastle Park giving Hearts unfair exposure.

 

Although in the current climate...

 

I like it!! :thumb:

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Салатные палочки

Heard them departing Prestwick from Irvine beach park today. For small planes they don't half collectively make a big noise. My oldest daughter was lying on the grass and shot up like..

 :wtf:

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Nucky Thompson

My wife's grandmother was Burmese and had to evacuate when the Japanese invaded. She ended up marrying a British soldier and moving to Scotland.

 

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Weakened Offender
36 minutes ago, Nucky Thompson said:

My wife's grandmother was Burmese and had to evacuate when the Japanese invaded. 

 

She was lucky. What the Japanese did in China was beyond evil. The Rape of Nanjing is one of the worst atrocities in human conflict. 

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1 hour ago, Weakened Offender said:

 

She was lucky. What the Japanese did in China was beyond evil. The Rape of Nanjing is one of the worst atrocities in human conflict. 

 

His wife's grandmother was called Jing?

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Governor Tarkin
12 hours ago, Nucky Thompson said:

My wife's grandmother was Burmese and had to evacuate when the Japanese invaded. She ended up marrying a British soldier and moving to Scotland.

 

I

 

There's a similar story on my old man's side of the family. What was the lassie's name?

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On 15/08/2020 at 07:17, Ferris Bueller said:

Is the 2 minute silence for VJ day a new thing? The work wants us to to do it... Can't recall it happening before 

75 anniversary 

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14 hours ago, graygo said:

 

His wife's grandmother was called Jing?

😂😂😂 If I wasn’t already going to hell, I think that seals it. Well played 

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Did Douglas Ross fly one of them. He was nowhere to be seen either. Leader of the Scottish Tories. Arsehole! 

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Just now, ri Alban said:

Did Douglas Ross fly one of them. He was nowhere to be seen either. Leader of the Scottish Tories. Arsehole! 


He scored an own goal.

 

😎

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Nucky Thompson
31 minutes ago, Sooperstar said:

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Great sight that. 

The red, white and blue of the Royal Air Force, red arrows, flying over Edinburgh Castle on a beautiful evening

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Nice of them to draw the Dutch flag all over Edinburgh 75 years, 1 week and 2 days after the Japanese surrender

A bizarre and rather pathetic stunt.

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Nucky Thompson
1 minute ago, Cade said:

Nice of them to draw the Dutch flag all over Edinburgh 75 years, 1 week and 2 days after the Japanese surrender

A bizarre and rather pathetic stunt.

:rofl:Bitter doesn't even come close

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Jamstomorrow
29 minutes ago, Cade said:

Nice of them to draw the Dutch flag all over Edinburgh 75 years, 1 week and 2 days after the Japanese surrender

A bizarre and rather pathetic stunt.

Actually the surrender of Imperial Japan was announced by Emperor Hirohito on August 15th and formally signed on September 2nd, 1945, bringing the hostilities of World War II to a close.   This event that you describe as 'pathetic' kind of falls in between.  Maybe you meant 'partriotic' in deference to all those who give their lives in the conflict.

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