I will make this post short and let the pictures do the talking. In a simple few words, I went to see the Red Arrows for the first time since I was a child. This was between Olympics and they were incredible and I found it very moving. It takes 1,500 flight hours and at least one combat tour before a pilot can even consider trying out for the Red Arrows. Two pilots were killed in August and November last year. I was attending the White Horse County Show in Wiltshire, a fraction over a year since the death of "Red 4".
The Red Arrows are a flight of 9 but in commemoration to their fallen comrades, they flew as 7 on this day. In the pictures you will a few shots of them flying with white smoke and the outermost pilots are trailing red smoke in their honour.
Words cannot express my pride in the dedication and skill of these pilots, that they are special is beyond doubt but the fact that they still have the power to take your breath away is incredible, that and the fact that they silenced a 16 year old teenage girl for the duration of their show, a testament to their skill if ever there was one!
Just to answer one question that you will be about to ask: How did you get such close shots?
Well it was like this.................
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