anyone seen this before - Red Arrow Blowing it's nose!

This was taken by my son at Waddington Air Show - took us by surprise - I've never seen it before whilst still on the ground!

Oops The dye valve has stuck at a guess, or the jockey has caught the trigger on the joy stick. They use the armourment release controls to blow red/white/blue.
we once accidently released a cloud of dye whilst carrying out engine runs at Scampton. Next day an officer turned up with a blue (previously white) rabbit that had been in a run in the garden as the cloud swept through married quarters. He wanted to know names!!!!!! and was far from pleased,

johnnie wrote:.... Next day an officer turned up with a blue (previously white) rabbit that had been in a run in the garden as the cloud swept through married quarters. He wanted to know names!!!!!! and was far from pleased,

Its his 1st lesson . and got his left and right mixed up

For Ray Hannah's last trip we put green dye (stolen from the Frecce Tricolori) into his jet.

We also used to get the occasional purple run if we accidently mixed up the filling valves (DOH!!)

I was on the dye team for my first year, before getting my back seat. I was the front of shop guy who actually connected the valves and listened to the side of the dye tank (converted Aden gun casing) to tell when it was full. The tank would gurgle just before the dye came out of the overflow. The trick was to catch it just before it "beltched".

It was a dicey job and we were always getting covered on the stuff, It would take around three days to get the colour off your skin if you got any on you. I did end up in the medical centre once when the Engineering Flight Sargent got me to stand with my finger up the red dye outlet (like a little Dutch boy) and promptly hit the blue instead. I took about three gallons straight over me. Worked out for the best in the long run as he felt so bad about it, he told me to go home for a week to recover.

i used the dread the shout across a mess room at a strange location "YOU, AIRMAN!!!! HAVE YOU BEEN DYING YOUR FU$%*G HAIR"
here we go again!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyway, I used to have a letter from our Warrent Officer, explaining
that "I did not dye my hair" and that "it was an unavoidable risk of my
job that I spent a certain amount of time either bright red or blue"