The Red Arrows are stranded in Canada after “poor weather” grounded the aerobatic team.<\/p>\n
The jets were due to return to RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire following the Operation Eagle Hawk tour of the US, but the weather forecast for north-eastern regions of Canada has meant they cannot return.<\/p>\n
The planes, which are unable to refuel mid-flight, were due to make stops in Canada, Greenland and Iceland before returning to the UK.<\/p>\n
In a social media post, the RAF Red Arrows said: “Crossing the North Atlantic with the single-engined Hawk, which cannot air-to-air refuel, requires extremely careful planning and the right conditions.”<\/p>\n
The RAF said planned post-tour engineering on the aircraft would now take place at Canadian Forces Base Goose Bay, where the jets are currently grounded, to help “expediate” a return to public displays.<\/p>\n
The team’s next event is scheduled for 14 August at Eastbourne International Airshow, but no return date has yet been announce by the RAF.<\/p>\n
The statement said: “The RAF is in contact with airshow organisers as part of its normal season dialogue and planning.”<\/p>\n
They said a “buffer zone” had already been scheduled in “to help mitigate potential weather delays” and that staff would be taking leave in the UK.<\/p>\n
The statement added: “Safety is paramount to all decisions and will remain the only driver as to when the team continues the Atlantic trail.”<\/p>\n
The team had been in the US<\/a> as part of a month of displays to mark 250 years since the War of Independence.<\/p>\n Listen to highlights from Lincolnshire on BBC Sounds<\/a>, watch the latest episode of Look North<\/a>.<\/p>\n Download the BBC News app from the App Store<\/a> for iPhone and iPad or Google Play<\/a> for Android devices<\/p>\n More on this storyRelated internet links<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Red Arrows are stranded in Canada after “poor weather” grounded the aerobatic team. The jets were due…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[18889,48790,17,600,48789,38301,48791,48788,48787,6821],"class_list":["post-151282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-aerobatic-team","tag-brad-mills-imagn","tag-canada","tag-lincolnshire","tag-nationals-park","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-poor-weather","tag-raf-waddington","tag-red-arrows","tag-washington-nationals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}