The Red Arrows flypast. Where were you?

[chazwwe]

Lottery Winners at Green Peace.
Big cheer followed by the lead singer saying that 'I did that but you weren't supposed to go until the end'

Then followed a few jokes about don't tell the Green Peace organisers or they won't be allowed back. 

[HotChipWillBreakYourLegs]

In the Kidz Field.

I'm sure a buzzing by the RAF is a semi regular occurrence at Glasto.

I also reckon that the RAF need no permission from Glasto about where they fly!

Probably just tell them to keep the choppers out the way.

[WhatADin]

Poutine stand chatting to a comedian 🙂

[Crazyfool01]

41 minutes ago, kalifire said:

I highly doubt they didn't take a specific detour to pass the festival, and they would have had to liaise with festival control about it beforehand, presumably.

Footage here:

 

isnt airspace restricted during the festival ? would that also apply to red arrows ? 

[Pipine]

I was in the circus field, got a great view 🙂

[Hugh Jass II]

Sat on the hill at Row Mead watching Capaldi.

Had a perfect view of them.

[efcfanwirral]

2 hours ago, parsonjack said:

At Lewis Capaldi.....in true style he commented musing that the Eavii must have thought he 'needed a f*ckin' fly-past'.

Haha was also there - and that made me laugh too!

30 minutes ago, Crazyfool01 said:

isnt airspace restricted during the festival ? would that also apply to red arrows ? 

I thought so too - there was a lot more in the air this year. Did anyone notice the three hot air balloons Saturday night? I was at Pretenders so assuming most others were at Lizzo so might not have noticed

Plus there were a couple of planes that went over that turned out to be photographers based on pictures afterwards, and then the BBC drones too

Edited July 12, 2023 by efcfanwirral

[BookAngel]

23 minutes ago, efcfanwirral said:

I thought so too - there was a lot more in the air this year. Did anyone notice the three hot air balloons Saturday night? I was at Pretenders so assuming most others were at Lizzo so might not have noticed

 

Yes, they were visible from the Pyramid field during Lizzo, too. One had letters on it but I couldn't make out what they were or if it was an advert!

[chuckles07]

I was in west holts still feeling great from the the Third World set, eating excellent fish and chips if i recall correctly.  Whilst also being somewhat bemused by Jacob Collier.  Duracell Bunny has nothing on him 😀

[Stave_1974]

3 hours ago, parsonjack said:

At Lewis Capaldi.....in true style he commented musing that the Eavii must have thought he 'needed a f*ckin' fly-past'.

Yeah, we were there too.... 

[parsonjack]

1 hour ago, Crazyfool01 said:

isnt airspace restricted during the festival ? would that also apply to red arrows ? 

it is....but only in so far as flying below 3100ft within a 2.5 mile radius circle is prohibited.  Overflying above 3100ft is permitted, with usual ATC permissions obvs.

[scaryclaireyfairy]

2 hours ago, HotChipWillBreakYourLegs said:

In the Kidz Field.

I'm sure a buzzing by the RAF is a semi regular occurrence at Glasto.

I also reckon that the RAF need no permission from Glasto about where they fly!

Probably just tell them to keep the choppers out the way.

Yeah, it's happened loads of times. I assume Glasto often falls on a weekend that they're out and about for a show.

[Andeeroo]

I think I was having a nap outside the Avalon during Fisherman's Friends. Scared the living bejeezus out of me.

[compactdisc]

5 hours ago, Dave_c said:

Think I was in my tent snoozing. Is this a thing now that the festival organise or just the red arrows getting some free publicity?

I looked this up many years ago, as one of my school fire drill's was also treated to a Red Arrows flypast.

You can request a flypast and provided they are in the area/there is a justifiable reason for their participation they will usually do it I think.

EDIT: Found the application form, for those interested: https://www.raf.mod.uk/documents/word/flypast-request-form-2023/

Edited July 12, 2023 by compactdisc

[MichaelsBeard]

Got a great view of this. Was taking shade on the cut thru between Woodsies and Other looking towards Pyramid. Could see them coming from the right, right past us to the left. Another moment of many this fest 

[idb]

Also watching The Lottery Winners.

The hot air balloons that also went over during the festival must have had a great view.

[Supernintendo Chalmers]

I must have been higher than they were cos I completely missed them 

[Skip997]

1 minute ago, Supernintendo Chalmers said:

I must have been higher than they were cos I completely missed them 

I reckon I must have filtered them out as "unimportant nonsense and nothing to do with the festival".

Knowing when they polluted the airspace may allow me to work out where I was.

[HotChipWillBreakYourLegs]

37 minutes ago, scaryclaireyfairy said:

Yeah, it's happened loads of times. I assume Glasto often falls on a weekend that they're out and about for a show.

I reckon they're just on exercises and they like to wake people up.  Always seems to happen in the morning!

[Supernintendo Chalmers]

1 minute ago, Skip997 said:

I reckon I must have filtered them out as "unimportant nonsense and nothing to do with the festival".

Knowing when they polluted the airspace may allow me to work out where I was.

I heard they released a load of chem trails over the valley in an insidious attempt to stop attendees from leaning so far to the left...

[Neville Street]

29 minutes ago, idb said:

Also watching The Lottery Winners.

The hot air balloons that also went over during the festival must have had a great view.

One of the hot air balloons was the shape of a hand grenade. Really freaky. Zoomed picture and picture of stage with balloon top left

 

Edited July 12, 2023 by Neville Street
Getting the right long shot

[LeeHC]

At Lokkaido on Sensation Seekers'. Wearing santa hats and claws they gave out for the show. All of this seemed perfectly normal at the time..

[balti-pie]

I was having a wee in the urinals at the Tow & Hitch, wondering how in the name of blue f**k they managed to get Arcadia to start firing out aeroplanes 

[stuartbert two hats]

1 hour ago, BookAngel said:

Yes, they were visible from the Pyramid field during Lizzo, too. One had letters on it but I couldn't make out what they were or if it was an advert!

Look like adverts to me. No idea what the grenade was for though!

[gorfield]

Pyramid!