Female top gun is from Stamford...

When I first posted in May on the first female Red Arrow pilot, I knew Flt Lt Kirsty Moore was from Lincolnshire, but didn't know if she hailed from our part of the county...

Now the Stamford Mercury has revealed that the top gun is a former pupil of Stamford High School...

Red Arrows near disaster in end of the pier show...

An official report reveals that the RAF's Lincolnshire-based Red Arrows came just 900 feet from colliding with a BMI jet packed with holiday-makers.

The team of nine Hawk aircraft were forced to take evasive action after confusion among air-controllers led to them flying in the same air space as the passenger jet.

It happened while the Red Arrows were giving holiday-makers on the ground at Weston-Super-Mare a free show to cheer them up after the local pier had burned down last summer.

The end of the pier would have paled into insignificance considering what might have happened...

Then again, isn't flying at break-neck speeds just a few feet from another aircraft all in a days work for the top guns of our Royal Air Force...?

Red Arrows to stay based in Lincs...

Great news to hear that the Red Arrows are to remain based in Lincolnshire.

The Labour Government has confirmed that the world-famous aerobatics team are be based at RAF Waddington, a couple of miles south of Lincoln, rather than at Scampton as at present, but still use the airspace around Scampton north of the city.

The Lincolnshire Echo has 'revealed' the news today.

In fact it was announced at a meeting of Lincolnshire County Council last week when Leader Martin Hill said he had received the news from the Ministry of Defence that day.

I took the opportunity to welcome the news that the Red Arrows are staying in Lincolnshire, the home of the Royal Air Force.

Why does it take nearly a week for the Echo to report the good news?

Unfortunately, the 'county newspaper' doesn't always cover even full council meetings.

UPDATE: The BBC has now caught up with the news...