Interview with Jas Hawker on the RAF Red Arrows
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- čas přidán 11. 09. 2024
- Jas Hawker, is a former RAF Tornado GR1/GR4 pilot, Red Arrows pilot and also Red 1, The Boss. He tells us about his time flying the Tornado on exercise and on operations overseas plus a great insight into being a Red Arrow pilot and leading them.
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Learnt more from this about the reds than any dvd ive seen.. thanks for this
I am glad to hear that :) We want to give the viewer something a bit extra.
What a great interview! Very engaging. Better than watching the crap on TV.
Gavin Weaver thanks Gavin!
Extremely interesting all the way through, and how things have changed in those years since the Red Arrows became a permanent unit for team aerobatics. As a former Black Arrows ground crew member I have the greatest admiration for our wonderful Red Arrows and respect too. Great interview and many thanks also to the interviewee.
Really glad you enjoyed it, Andrew. It must have been great working with the Black Arrows!
It was a wonderful 3 years for me and at least one 'show' every day, as well as the squadron carrying out the normal duties of a Fighter squadron, and it is also wonderful to be in touch with team members from those happy days.
Fantastic Interview, Loved watching Jas Hawker in one of the old red arrows documentries. Its great that he loves talking about his time on the red arrows and flting itself. Out of all the video I've seen on youtube, this one with jas has had more information on the red arrows than other.
Glad you enjoyed it, Gary!
He seems to be a genuine down to earth guy.very interesting listening to him
I've only just caught this. What an excellent and informative interview. Jas seemed to be really generous with his time, and it gave me an insight into the Reds that I've never had before.
Thanks Colin. Jas was great and it was such a privilege to interview him and be invited on base.
I look at the Scampton hangar behind him, and sigh when I think what that airfield has become. Nevertheless, great interview. Thanks.
Simply and effective, this kind of person, shows that was a real selection happened in the RAF.
This needs a lot more attention, fantastic!
Thanks Chris!
What a great interview. Loved it!
Cheers!
Loved that, fascinating insight into the Red Arrows. Impressive man, great credit to the RAFAT and the RAF.
Thanks, Peter.
Looks like someone is smoking a bong in the cockpit behind him
Fab interview, he seems a really genuine down to earth bloke!
Another great interview, well done Mike 😎👍
Thanks, Paul!
Awesome interview. Love this page!
Thank you Björn.
Excellent interview, many thanks!
You are welcome :)
These vids are totally brilliant! Thanks man :)
+StevieSpain D glad you like them :)
Big up sir you are a rail hero 💚
Top notch,thank you
You're welcome, Simon.
People today aren't aware of how much better trained the pilots today generally are before they fly operationally in whatever jet or aircraft they're assigned to.
I was reminded of that point a few weeks back watching a movie. (I know, I know! Films don't always reflect history well but occasionally you do have a well-researched film which isn't completely jingoistic that does reflect reality well enough.)
That movie was "The Battle of Britain." By contemporary standards, it's a modest movie with so-so effects scenes and obvious modelwork in parts but some decent flight choreography with preserved Spitfires and Me Bf-109s which are NOT all reproductions. I wouldn't be surprised if some of the Me Bf-109s used were Spanish-built, postwar variants (which a quick look on Wikipedia proves was the case).
There were men flying Spitfires in The Battle of Britain who had less than half a days (10-11 HOURS) actual flight-training in the type! And, unfortunately, a lot of these guys didn't survive their first combat sortie.
(The comedic moment in that otherwise serious film was the combat introduction of a wing of Polish volunteers. It was hilarious to see those guys disobey orders and go after the Germans when they pretended not to understand the commands of their British flight-lead! The poor commanding officer could hardly ground them afterwards when they tore apart the German attack wing and proved to be very competent fighter pilots even if they were driven by an impulse for revenge!)
Won't say more than that... If you have a chance to watch the movie, do so. It's a who's who's of famous British actors of the time including a young Michael Caine. Besides him, I really only recognized Robert Shaw (Quint from "Jaws") and Christopher Plummer (General Chang, "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country"; I know he did "The Sound of Music" but I remember him from "Dragnet" and "Star Trek VI"), the representative North American/Canadian contingent.
Yeah, I am mildly embarrassed to admit the other actors were not familiar to me even though I recognized a few acting family names (Redgrave among them)!
can't believe I lived next door to this guy and went to school with him
Small world ey Shaun!
very small world
Brilliant.
Brilliant ☺
Thanks :)
just as an aside,does anyone remember the guy who went thru the canopy at scampton and got killed?,heard from a fellow pilot in the red arrows the guy was trying to shove a butty box under the seat,after beeing told not to do it,it hit a cable that triggered the seat without the canopy,shot him thru it and mashed his head!.
Red 1 !! I'm betting that man sleeps with a smile on his face.
Undoubtedly the red arrows uses only some of our best pilots so no criticism there - my beef s that they are using a low powered "toy" jet one that is hardly fit to be using as a trainer let alone to represent our nations air force. It's not even the beefier of the Hawks they use either - a crappy ageing T1!!