The delay resulted in the team pulling out of a number of key summer events in the UK, including Lyme Regis and Eastbourne.<\/p>\n
The jets, which are unable to refuel mid-flight, arrived back in the UK at RAF Lossiemouth in Scotland on Sunday after refuelling stops in Greenland and Iceland.<\/p>\n
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Red Arrows aircraft pictured at Royal Canadian Air Force base Goose Bay [MOD]<\/p>\n
In a social media post, the team wrote: “Back in the UK. The Red Arrows have landed at RAF Lossiemouth [on its] multi-leg journey home from North America.<\/p>\n
“The team has one more flight home to RAF Waddington to complete the Operation Eagle Hawk return.”<\/p>\n
The Red Arrows had been due to appear at Airbourne: Eastbourne International Airshow, the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo and Lyme Regis Lifeboat Week.<\/p>\n
Devon-based wheelbarrow performance group the Bradninch Red Barrows<\/a>, formed to raise money for charities by doing parody displays of the Red Arrows, stepped in to fill the void left by their high-flying counterparts.<\/p>\n Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress Sally B, the last remaining airworthy example in Europe, was among the additions to the programme in Eastbourne after the Red Arrows cancelled.<\/p>\n The RAF’s aerobatics team are due to resume their summer schedule with a display at Cromer Carnival on the Norfolk coast on Wednesday.<\/p>\n Other dates in the schedule<\/a> are expected to go ahead as planned, a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n The team had been in the US<\/a> to mark 250 years of American 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 expected to return to their base at RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire later after being…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,54584,54583,54582,48788,48787,51798],"class_list":["post-170741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-canada","tag-eastbourne","tag-lyme-regis","tag-raf-lossiemouth","tag-raf-waddington","tag-red-arrows","tag-regions-of-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170741","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=170741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}