Saturday, June 26, 2010
We have won the inter school airfix FIRST PRIZE!!!!
Monday, June 21, 2010
Sunday, June 20, 2010
Our final submition
to put the sticker onto the plane as the sticker is too
small to hold. It is painful process :(
Picture taken by sunshine band posted at Airplane-pictures.net
Red Arrow (right side done by Elvina,Derek)
Ngee Ann poly work shop
We have fun at Ngee Ann poly to bulid The Red Arrows.
Friday, June 11, 2010
information about the plane and the display they done
BAE Hawk T1ATHE PLANE(BAE HAWK T1A)
The first display by the Red Arrows was at RAF Little Rissington on 6 May 1965. The display was to introduce the Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team to the media. However, the first public display was on 9 May 1965 in France, at the French National Air Day in Clermont-Ferrand. The first public display in the UK was on 15 May 1965 at the International Air Fair at Biggin Hill. The first display with nine aircraft was on 8 July 1966 at RAF Little Rissington.
The first display in Germany was at RAF Laarbruch on 6 August 1965, and since then the Red Arrows have performed in Germany 170 times. However, the Red Arrows' last display in Germany was on 22 August 1988 after formation aerobatics were banned in Germany following the Italian Air Force Frecce Tricolori accident on 28 August 1988 in Ramstein.
During displays, the aircraft do not fly directly over the crowd apart from entering the display area by flying over the crowd from behind; any manoeuvres in front of and parallel to the audience can be as low as 300 feet, the 'synchro pair' can go as low as 100 feet straight and level, or 150 feet when in inverted flight. To carry out a full display, the cloud base must be above 4,500 feet; if it is below 2,500 feet then they will perform a 'flat' display, which consists of fly-pasts and steep turns.
One of the biggest crowds to see the Red Arrows was in Lisbon on 13 June 1973, when there was a crowd of 650,000 people, a statistic exceeded in 1996 in Sydney
The Red Arrows, officially known as the Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team, is the aerobatics display team of the Royal Air Force, based at RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire, UK. They were formed in late 1964 as an all-RAF team, replacing a number of unofficial teams that had been sponsored by RAF commands.
-Pilots-
The team for the 2010 display season is:
§ Red One: Squadron Leader Ben Murphy
§ Red Two: Flight Lieutenant Ben Plank
§ Red Three: Flight Lieutenant Kirsty Moore
§ Red Four: Flight Lieutenant Dave Davies
§ Red Five: Flight Lieutenant Zane Sennett
§ Red Six: Flight Lieutenant Paul "Pablo" O'Grady (Synchro Leader)
§ Red Seven: Flight Lieutenant David "Monty" Montenegro
§ Red Eight: Squadron Leader Graham "Duffy" Duff
§ Red Nine (and executive officer): Flight Lieutenant Simon "Kermit" Rea
§ Red Ten (Road Manager): Squadron Leader Graeme Bagnall
§ Red Eleven Wing Commander: David Firth-Wigglesworth
-Aircraft-
The Red Arrows do not use front-line aircraft because of operating costs. The team uses the RAF's advanced jet trainer, the BAE Hawk T1A, built at Brough in the East Riding of Yorkshire. While the Hawk is very basic compared to the much more modern Eurofighter Typhoon, it is still fast enough and very manoeuvrable, ideal for low-altitude aerobatics. The plane also does not have a sat nav or radar or onboard computer. The Red Arrows normally cruise at 360 knots (one nautical mile every 10 seconds).
Statistics
§ Wing span: 9.39 m
§ Length: 11.85 m
§ Height: 4.0 m
§ Maximum speed sea level: 800 mph (1,037 km/h)
§ Maximum altitude: 48,000 ft (15,900 m)
§ Empty weight: 8,000 lb (3,630 kg)
§ Maximum weight: 18,390 lb (8,330 kg)
§ Powerplant: one Rolls-Royce Adour Mk 151
§ Thrust: 5,200 lbf (23 kN)
-Others-
The smoke trails left by the team are made by releasing diesel into the exhaust; this oxidises straight away,leaving a white smoke trail. Dyes can be added to produce the red and blue colour. The diesel is stored in the pod on the underside of the plane; designed to carry a 30 mm ADEN cannon, it now houses three tanks: one 50-gallon tank of pure diesel and two 10-gallon tanks of blue- and red-dyed diesel. The smoke system uses ten gallons per minute; therefore each plane can trail smoke for a total of seven minutes; (5 minutes of white smoke, 1 minute of blue and 1 minute of red is carried).