{"id":731861,"date":"2026-08-08T21:18:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T21:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/731861\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T21:18:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T21:18:14","slug":"stranded-red-arrows-pull-out-of-uk-air-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/731861\/","title":{"rendered":"Stranded Red Arrows pull out of UK air shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wing Cdr Sasha Nash, officer commanding the RAF aerobatic team, said: &#8220;We are very sorry the Red Arrows cannot participate at these events and we are grateful to organisers and communities for their understanding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Every effort is being made to ensure the Red Arrows can recommence the busy display season as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;However, safety is the only factor that will determine the timing of the team&#8217;s return from Canada.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Other RAF aircraft, including the Typhoon display team and Battle of Britain Memorial Flight (BBMF), remain part of an extensive line-up at Eastbourne.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The BBMF is also carrying out flypasts at Lyme Regis during Lifeboat Week on August 21 and 22.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The team had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/czxq1gx07e7o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">been in the US<\/a> to mark 250 years of American independence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Listen to highlights from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p0cjdw6n\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lincolnshire on BBC Sounds<\/a>, watch the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b007tp3n\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">latest episode of Look North<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wing Cdr Sasha Nash, officer commanding the RAF aerobatic team, said: &#8220;We are very sorry the Red Arrows&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":731862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-731861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=731861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/731862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}