 | MANEOUVRES
The Red Arrows fly a number of
aerobatic maneouvres during their display, and some of them do have
some unusual names. There are the loops and rolls, along
with maneouvres such as a quarter-clover; rollback, barrel
roll and hesitation roll. Each of these requires a particular
skill, especially when flown, as the Red Arrows do, in close formation
and surrounded by other pilots holding their position within the
display. BARREL ROLL
The full aerobatic barrel
roll is a combination of a roll with a loop,
and is probably best compared to a corkscrew. In a genuine,
traditional barrel roll, as the aircraft rolls upside down, it also
climbs into a loop. This means that at the highest point of
the
loop, when it's upside down, it will also be pointing at 90 degrees to
the direction it originally started. As the aircraft
completes
the maneouvre, it comes down from the loop and rolls back so that it's
the right way up, and pointing in the same direction as it started.
The Red Arrows barrel rolls are much less pronounced than
that, and
involve the team, or an individual pilot, keeping the Hawk aircraft
pointing in generally the same direction throughout.
For interest, the Red Arrows always roll to the left, i.e. as the roll
starts, the leader's aircraft will roll anticlockwise. There
is a
tale of a leader, who, during a Red Arrows display, found that he was
out of position and was not as close to the crowd as he would have
liked. In order to move closer to the crowd, he called for a
barrel roll to the right. The team pulled it off brilliantly,
but
the leader got an earful when the display was over! |
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