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  • A detail of a Grenadier Guardsman's chinstrap during a ceremonial parade for Queen Elizabeth's Golden Jubilee celebrations, on 3rd June 2002, in London, England.
    queens_golden_jubilee-03-06-2002_3.jpg
  • According to protocol, members of the Coldstream Guards, led by 'H. M. Ceremonial Warrant Officer WO1 (GSM) Andrew 'Vern' Stokes, mark in chalk the route along Whitehall for a future ceremony, on 5th October, 2017, in London, England.
    route_marking-01-05-10-2017.jpg
  • Empty seats in a vacant meeting room, on 5th March 2017, at the Barbican in the City of London, England.
    barbican_room-04-05-03-2017.jpg
  • London's Southbank Festival of the World designs being stuck to concrete underpass wall.
    south_bank04-22-06-2012.jpg
  • Lunchtime passer-by walks past a shadow of the Ritz Hotel sign, showing on a pillar outside the famous London landmark.
    the_ritz03-07-03-2011.jpg
  • Lunchtime passer-by walks past a shadow of the Ritz Hotel sign, showing on a pillar outside the famous London landmark.
    the_ritz02-07-03-2011.jpg
  • Seen from the cockpit of another Hawk of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team before an In-Season Practice (ISP) training flight near their base at RAF Scampton. Seen through the explosive Plexiglass cockpit of a tenth plane, we see forward into deep blue sky as two sets of aerobatic pilots steer their machines from a crossover manoeuvre, their organic white smoke pouring from their jet pipes to emphasize their paths through the air. In front of a local crowd at the airfield the team work their way through a 25-minute series of display manoeuvres that are loved by thousands at summer air shows. After some time off, spare days like this are used to hone their manual aerobatic and piloting skills before re-joining the air show circuit. Since 1965 they've flown over 4,000 shows in 52 countries.
    Red_Arrows739_RBA.jpg
  • Seen from the cockpit of another Hawk of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team during an In-Season Practice (ISP) training flight near their base at RAF Scampton. Seen through the explosive Plexiglass cockpit of a tenth plane, we see forward into deep blue sky as two sets of aerobatic pilots steer their machines from a crossover manoeuvre, their organic white smoke pouring from their jet pipes to emphasize their paths through the air. In front of a local crowd at the airfield the team work their way through a 25-minute series of display manoeuvres that are loved by thousands at summer air shows. After some time off, spare days like this are used to hone their manual aerobatic and piloting skills before re-joining the air show circuit. Since 1965 they've flown over 4,000 shows in 52 countries.
    Red_Arrows684_RBA.jpg
  • Joining with the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team on the far left, are the smoke trails of forty leading European display aircraft: Spanish Patrulla Aguila; Italian Frecce Tricolori; French Breitling Jet Team and the Swiss Patrouille Suisse. All flew together in the clear, blue alpine skies on a spectacular fly-past at the Payerne Air 04 show, Switzerland. The two-day festival at the Swiss airfield is home of the Swiss Air Force who host the cream of international aerobatic display flying every September to 275,000 spectators over a weekend. European display teams and air forces gathered to celebrate the 90th anniversary of Swiss military aviation. Flying on the far left here, the Red Arrows have performed over 4,000 shows in 52 countries since 1965.
    Red_Arrows672_RBA.jpg
  • Senior RAF officers assess 'Red Arrows' Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team and grant them authority to fly public displays
    Red_Arrows327_RBA.jpg
  • In the mid-day heat, all members of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, stand at ease and we see the back of one of the squadron's official photographers head, looking into the viewfinder of his camera to record an official photograph immediately on PDA Day at RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus. PDA (or 'Public Display Authority'), is when they are allowed by senior RAF officers to perform as a military aerobatic show in front of the public - following a special test flight when their every move and mistake is assessed and graded. Until that day arrives, their training and practicing is done in the privacy of their own airfield at RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire, UK or here in the glare of Akrotiri. The pilots are called reds and their ground crew, the Blues after their summer air show uniforms.
    Red_Arrows159_RBA.jpg
  • A simple white cotton shirt set on a dressmaker's tailoring dummy in the design studio at couturier Margaret Howell's workshop
    margaret_howell20723-05-2007 .jpg
  • Detail of a seamstress runs up garments on a sewing machine at couturier Margaret Howell's Edmonton workshop factory
    margaret_howell15223-05-2007 .jpg
  • A seamstress runs up garments on a sewing machine at couturier Margaret Howell's Edmonton workshop factory
    margaret_howell14923-05-2007 .jpg
  • Garment production order form and pins in the design studio at couturier Margaret Howell's Edmonton workshop factory
    margaret_howell02323-05-2007 .jpg
  • Sterile technicians construct European Space Agency's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) Jules Verne module at Kourou Spaceport.
    esa_guiana30516-08-2007.jpg
  • Young technician constructs European Space Agency's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) Jules Verne module at Kourou Spaceport.
    esa_guiana29516-08-2007.jpg
  • Young technician constructs European Space Agency's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) Jules Verne module at Kourou Spaceport.
    esa_guiana29316-08-2007.jpg
  • Young technician constructs European Space Agency's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) Jules Verne module at Kourou Spaceport.
    esa_guiana29116-08-2007.jpg
  • Sterile technician constructs European Space Agency's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) Jules Verne module at Kourou Spaceport.
    esa_guiana29016-08-2007.jpg
  • Sterile technicians construct European Space Agency's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) Jules Verne module at Kourou Spaceport.
    esa_guiana27016-08-2007.jpg
  • Sterile technician constructs European Space Agency's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) Jules Verne module at Kourou Spaceport.
    esa_guiana26816-08-2007.jpg
  • A solo teenage player takes a shot at the net on a basketball court at the Cyprea Marine Foods (CMF) processing factory on Himmafushi Island, Maldives in the Indian Ocean. It is dusk near the equator and soon dark. The landscape is barren except for some young trees on the waterfront where two people are walking in the cool tropical air. Seen in the last, darkening light of day, the player leaps upwards and his arm stays where his ball left his hand to roll around the ring. The man is enjoying some leisure time at the end of his working day, possibly an employee of CMF who handle newly-caught tuna fish for export to the EU and the UK's supermarket food industry.
    maldives162-12-11-2007.jpg
  • A British Army Gurkha recruit stands to attention during a barracks inspection at the Gurkha Regiment's training centre at Church Crookham, on 16th January 1996, in England UK. Some 60,000 young Nepalese boys aged between 17 - 22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in Nepal's Himalayan foothills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000 - 12,000 feet. Only 160 are recruited with training continuing at this barracks until joining various units within the army. The Gurkhas training wing in Nepal has been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    gurkha_barracks-16-01-1996.jpg
  • Judges measure giant runner beans at the annual Vegetable Olympics, on 30th September 1994, at Spalding, Lincolnshire, England. Sponsored by Garden News Magazine and hosted by a nursery owner,  these vegetables have their growth accelerated by special fertilizers and genetic hormones.
    vegetable_olympics-30-09-1994_1.jpg
  • According to protocol, members of the Coldstream Guards, led by 'H. M. Ceremonial Warrant Officer WO1 (GSM) Andrew 'Vern' Stokes, mark in chalk the route along Whitehall for a future ceremony, on 5th October, 2017, in London, England.
    route_marking-06-05-10-2017.jpg
  • According to protocol, members of the Coldstream Guards, led by 'H. M. Ceremonial Warrant Officer WO1 (GSM) Andrew 'Vern' Stokes, mark in chalk the route along Whitehall for a future ceremony, on 5th October, 2017, in London, England.
    route_marking-05-05-10-2017.jpg
  • According to protocol, members of the Coldstream Guards, led by 'H. M. Ceremonial Warrant Officer WO1 (GSM) Andrew 'Vern' Stokes, mark in chalk the route along Whitehall for a future ceremony, on 5th October, 2017, in London, England.
    route_marking-04-05-10-2017.jpg
  • According to protocol, members of the Coldstream Guards, led by 'H. M. Ceremonial Warrant Officer WO1 (GSM) Andrew 'Vern' Stokes, mark in chalk the route along Whitehall for a future ceremony, on 5th October, 2017, in London, England.
    route_marking-03-05-10-2017.jpg
  • According to protocol, members of the Coldstream Guards, led by 'H. M. Ceremonial Warrant Officer WO1 (GSM) Andrew 'Vern' Stokes, mark in chalk the route along Whitehall for a future ceremony, on 5th October, 2017, in London, England.
    route_marking-02-05-10-2017.jpg
  • Empty seats in a vacant meeting room, on 5th March 2017, at the Barbican in the City of London, England.
    barbican_room-02-05-03-2017.jpg
  • Empty seats in a vacant meeting room, on 5th March 2017, at the Barbican in the City of London, England.
    barbican_room-01-05-03-2017.jpg
  • A collection of domestic tools stored on the wall of a small farmstead garage.
    shed_tools01-04-05-2013.jpg
  • A collection of domestic tools stored on the wall of a small farmstead garage.
    shed_tools03-04-05-2013.jpg
  • A collection of domestic tools stored on the wall of a small farmstead garage.
    shed_tools02-04-05-2013.jpg
  • A construction worker helps a crane driver either lower or raise a steel girdle on a building site.
    construction_workman01-13-05-1994.jpg
  • A construction worker uses a theodolite to measure triangulation angles on a building project site.
    construction_workman02-13-05-1994.jpg
  • London's Southbank Festival of the World designs being stuck to concrete underpass wall.
    south_bank05-22-06-2012.jpg
  • Squadron Leader Spike Jepson, leader of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team memorises manoeuvres.
    Red_Arrows295_RBA.jpg
  • Two workmen measure and fit a shop window design backing for a high-street London retailer.
    workmen2-18-10-2011.jpg
  • Two workmen measure and fit a shop window design backing for a high-street London retailer.
    workmen1-18-10-2011.jpg
  • A local Portuguese man reverses his Fiat car into a narrow space between two trees on a Lisbon street pavement.
    lisbon_parking01-21-03-1994.jpg
  • Detail of a Hawk aircraft of the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team.
    Red_Arrows765_RBA.jpg
  • Seen from the cockpit of another Hawk of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team during an In-Season Practice (ISP) training flight near their base at RAF Scampton. Seen through the explosive Plexiglass cockpit of a tenth plane, we see forward into deep blue sky as two sets of aerobatic pilots steer their machines from a crossover manoeuvre, their organic white smoke pouring from their jet pipes to emphasize their paths through the air. In front of a local crowd at the airfield the team work their way through a 25-minute series of display manoeuvres that are loved by thousands at summer air shows. After some time off, spare days like this are used to hone their manual aerobatic and piloting skills before re-joining the air show circuit. Since 1965 they've flown over 4,000 shows in 52 countries.
    Red_Arrows740_RBA.jpg
  • Seen from the cockpit of another Hawk of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team during an In-Season Practice (ISP) training flight near their base at RAF Scampton. Seen through the explosive Plexiglass cockpit of a tenth plane, we look sideways towards other pilots diving downwards as they their machines after a loop, their organic white smoke pouring from their jet pipes to emphasize their paths through the air. In front of a local crowd at the airfield the team work their way through a 25-minute series of display manoeuvres that are loved by thousands at summer air shows. After some time off, spare days like this are used to hone their manual aerobatic and piloting skills before re-joining the air show circuit. Since 1965 they've flown over 4,000 shows in 52 countries.
    Red_Arrows738_RBA.jpg
  • Seen from the cockpit of another Hawk of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team during an In-Season Practice (ISP) training flight near their base at RAF Scampton. Seen through the explosive Plexiglass cockpit of a tenth plane, we see forward into deep blue sky as two sets of aerobatic pilots steer their machines from a crossover manoeuvre, their organic white smoke pouring from their jet pipes to emphasize their paths through the air. In front of a local crowd at the airfield the team work their way through a 25-minute series of display manoeuvres that are loved by thousands at summer air shows. After some time off, spare days like this are used to hone their manual aerobatic and piloting skills before re-joining the air show circuit. Since 1965 they've flown over 4,000 shows in 52 countries.
    Red_Arrows687_RBA.jpg
  • Seen from the cockpit of another Hawk of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team during an In-Season Practice (ISP) training flight near their base at RAF Scampton. Seen through the explosive Plexiglass cockpit of a tenth plane, we see forward into deep blue sky as two sets of aerobatic pilots steer their machines from a crossover manoeuvre, their organic white smoke pouring from their jet pipes to emphasize their paths through the air. In front of a local crowd at the airfield the team work their way through a 25-minute series of display manoeuvres that are loved by thousands at summer air shows. After some time off, spare days like this are used to hone their manual aerobatic and piloting skills before re-joining the air show circuit. Since 1965 they've flown over 4,000 shows in 52 countries.
    Red_Arrows686_RBA.jpg
  • Seen from the cockpit of another Hawk of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team during an In-Season Practice (ISP) training flight near their base at RAF Scampton. Seen through the explosive Plexiglass cockpit of a tenth plane, we see forward into deep blue sky as two sets of aerobatic pilots steer their machines from a crossover manoeuvre, their organic white smoke pouring from their jet pipes to emphasize their paths through the air. In front of a local crowd at the airfield the team work their way through a 25-minute series of display manoeuvres that are loved by thousands at summer air shows. After some time off, spare days like this are used to hone their manual aerobatic and piloting skills before re-joining the air show circuit. Since 1965 they've flown over 4,000 shows in 52 countries.
    Red_Arrows685_RBA.jpg
  • Banking slowly left over the agricultural Lincolnshire countryside are the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, who have commenced an In-Season Practice (ISP) training flight near their base at RAF Scampton. They turn at a gentle angle trailing white organic smoke  before reforming in front of a local crowd at the airfield and working through a 25-minute series of display manoeuvres that are loved by thousands at summer air shows. Their objective is to appear perfectly spaced from a ground perspective. Freshly-ploughed English fields with properties, roads and hedgerows are seen below. After some time off, spare days like this are used to hone their manual aerobatic and piloting skills before re-joining the air show circuit. Since 1965 they've flown over 4,000 shows in 52 countries.
    Red_Arrows683_RBA.jpg
  • Banking slowly left over the agricultural Lincolnshire countryside are the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, who have commenced an In-Season Practice (ISP) training flight near their base at RAF Scampton. They turn at a gentle angle trailing white organic smoke  before reforming in front of a local crowd at the airfield and working through a 25-minute series of display manoeuvres that are loved by thousands at summer air shows. Their objective is to appear perfectly spaced from a ground perspective. Freshly-ploughed English fields with properties, roads and hedgerows are seen below. After some time off, spare days like this are used to hone their manual aerobatic and piloting skills before re-joining the air show circuit. Since 1965 they've flown over 4,000 shows in 52 countries.
    Red_Arrows681_RBA.jpg
  • Joining with the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team on the far left, are the smoke trails of forty leading European display aircraft: Spanish Patrulla Aguila; Italian Frecce Tricolori; French Breitling Jet Team and the Swiss Patrouille Suisse. All flew together in the clear, blue alpine skies on a spectacular fly-past at the Payerne Air 04 show, Switzerland. The two-day festival at the Swiss airfield is home of the Swiss Air Force who host the cream of international aerobatic display flying every September to 275,000 spectators over a weekend. European display teams and air forces gathered to celebrate the 90th anniversary of Swiss military aviation. Flying on the far left here, the Red Arrows have performed over 4,000 shows in 52 countries since 1965.
    Red_Arrows671_RBA.jpg
  • Trails of white smoke left in the sky by Hawk jet aircraft of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team. Completing their off-season training, the team put the finishing touches to their display routine every Spring on the Mediterranean island where they perfect new manoeuvres. The sky is empty but as the light wind blows across the airfield, the remainder of the tapering coloured smoke (a mixture of vegetable dye and 'derv' - diesel fuel), blends together like a patriotic ribbon to make a haze of soft spectrum in the correct order of the United Kingdom's flag, and which becomes ever-sharper as the viewer looks towards the distant aircraft. They fly past, bend to the left and climb to a higher altitude, ready for their next formation.
    Red_Arrows657_RBA.jpg
  • Seen from another aircraft, the Dimanod Nine formation by the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team.
    Red_Arrows642_RBA.jpg
  • Bathing spectators enjoy fly-past by the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team in Clacton-on-Sea.
    Red_Arrows621_RBA.jpg
  • Hawk aircraft of the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team display above Guensey harbour crowds.
    Red_Arrows615_RBA.jpg
  • Seen from the cockpit of another Hawk of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team during an In-Season Practice (ISP) training flight near their base at RAF Scampton. Seen through the explosive Plexiglass cockpit of a tenth plane, we see forward into deep blue sky as two sets of aerobatic pilots steer their machines from a crossover manoeuvre, their organic white smoke pouring from their jet pipes to emphasize their paths through the air. In front of a local crowd at the airfield the team work their way through a 25-minute series of display manoeuvres that are loved by thousands at summer air shows. After some time off, spare days like this are used to hone their manual aerobatic and piloting skills before re-joining the air show circuit. Since 1965 they've flown over 4,000 shows in 52 countries.
    Red_Arrows572_RBA.jpg
  • Climbing vertically, high over England's skies is a Hawk jet of the 'Red Arrows', Royal Air Force aerobatic team during display.
    Red_Arrows548_RBA.jpg
  • Turning tight over Lake Windemere boating are the 'Red Arrows', Royal Air Force aerobatic team during display.
    Red_Arrows533_RBA.jpg
  • Trails of white smoke left in the sky by Hawk jet aircraft of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team. Completing their off-season training, the team put the finishing touches to their display routine every Spring on the Mediterranean island where they perfect new manoeuvres. The sky is empty but as the light wind blows across the airfield, the remainder of the tapering coloured smoke (a mixture of vegetable dye and 'derv' - diesel fuel), blends together like a patriotic ribbon to make a haze of soft spectrum in the correct order of the United Kingdom's flag, and which becomes ever-sharper as the viewer looks towards the distant aircraft. They fly past, bend to the left and climb to a higher altitude, ready for their next formation.
    Red_Arrows478_RBA.jpg
  • Detail of admin flight planning at the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team HQ at RAF Scampton.
    Red_Arrows473_RBA.jpg
  • Ending France's Bastille Day parade, the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, leave a trail of smoke over the pyramid peak of the Louvre art museum in the centre of Paris. Leaving vapour trails of red, white and blue smoke to mark the 100th anniversary of the Anglo-French Entente Cordiale. They were chosen by the French authorities to close the fly-pasts. British armed forces paraded in the historic parade for the first time. Under blue skies on a perfect summer day, the squadron lined up in their classic fly-past 'V-shape' called 'Big Battle', following the straight line of the Champs Elysees then eastwards over the Parisian suburbs. Personnel from four British military units were present and French Air Force jets performed their own fly-past to open the parade, while the British Hawk jets of the Red Arrows had the honour of completing it. .
    Red_Arrows461_RBA.jpg
  • Nine Hawk jets from the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, almost touch in mid-air at an altitude of approximately 4,100 feet in the Mediterranean skies above Cyprus. The texture of mottled cirrus cloud provides a soft background for the  aircraft which approach each other at a combined air speed of approximately 800 miles per hour (1,200 kph). The Opposition Loop is flown by the two pilot partners known as the Synchro Pair who fly independently of the other seven in the second-half of their 25-minute show. The two jets have vegetable dye and derv (diesel fuel) smoke mixture coloured red, blue or white. Here it traces the paths of both airplanes which curve from the edges of the frame to the centre (center). To the crowds far below, both look as if they are on collision course but will safely pass within feet of each other.
    Red_Arrows338_RBA.jpg
  • Five Hawk jets from the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, almost touch in mid-air at an altitude of approximately 4,100 feet in the Mediterranean skies above Cyprus. The texture of mottled cirrus cloud provides a soft background for the  aircraft which approach each other at a combined air speed of approximately 800 miles per hour (1,200 kph). The Opposition Loop is flown by the two pilot partners known as the Synchro Pair who fly independently of the other seven in the second-half of their 25-minute show. The two jets have vegetable dye and derv (diesel fuel) smoke mixture coloured red, blue or white. Here it traces the paths of both airplanes which curve from the edges of the frame to the centre (center). To the crowds far below, both look as if they are on collision course but will safely pass within feet of each other.
    Red_Arrows336_RBA.jpg
  • Aircraft of the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team practice over Cyprus sea during Spring exercises.
    Red_Arrows316_RBA.jpg
  • Southend Air show during display by the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team.
    Red_Arrows190_RBA.jpg
  • Southend Air show during display by the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team.
    Red_Arrows184_RBA.jpg
  • Southend Air show during display by the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team.
    Red_Arrows182_RBA.jpg
  • Spectators at the The Princess Margaret Hospital (TPMH) on the Akrotiri peninsula, about 4 kilometres from the RAF Station at Akrotiri, admire the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, as they perform one of their first public shows of the year. RAF staff and patients are allowed on to the grass outside the hospital building for this free show, given in honour of local charity fund-raisers of the Cyprus-based RAF Association whose guests form one of the smallest crowds to watch a Red Arrows display. Here, the team perform The Twizzle manoeuvre in front of the small crowd who stand by a green fence, matching tree and palm tree stumps. The bare earth is baked hard by the lack of rain and it almost looks like a desert scene as five of the nine jets speed overhead.
    Red_Arrows133_RBA.jpg
  • Senior RAF officers assess 'Red Arrows' Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team and grant them authority to fly public displays
    Red_Arrows130_RBA.jpg
  • Red Hawk jets of the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team perform during winter training at RAF Scampton home.
    Red_Arrows098_RBA.jpg
  • The Synchro Pair of the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team cross in high-speed manoeuvre during display.
    Red_Arrows095_RBA.jpg
  • RAF Female admin flight planning at the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team.
    Red_Arrows048_RBA.jpg
  • On the 100th anniversary of the Wright Brothers' first flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903, the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team, fly over the RAF Museum in Hendon, North London as part of the celebrations to honour this momentous date in aviations history. Coming from behind RAF personnel who are lined up to meet Prince Phillip, the Duke of Edinburgh, the ten Hawk jet aircraft make a perfect Diamond as they trail red, white and blue smoke across the blue skies above London. Since 1965 the team have flown over 4,000 such shows in 52 countries.
    Red_Arrows001_RBA.jpg
  • Two judges wearing identical tweed jackets are assisted by two other officials, also wearing the same red sweatshirts, are measuring oversized runner beans during the vegetable Olympics at the Bay Tree Nurseries, Spalding, Lincolnshire, England. With obssessive detail, they are discovering to the very millimetre which of theseplants might win this category for the largest runner bean of that year. In the foreground are other kingsize veg examples like marrow and courgettes though the really impressive growth comes from the pumpkins which weigh up to 308,2 kg. These runner beans measured up 39 1/2 in
    vegetable_olympics01-15-12-2007 .jpg
  • The £18.2m Millennium Bridge (a Thames crossing linking the City of London at St. Paul's Cathedral with the Tate Modern Gallery at Bankside) was London's newest river crossing for 100-plus years and coincided with the Millennium, it was hurriedly finished and opened to the public on 10 June 2000 when an estimated 100,000 people crossed it to discover the structure oscillated so much that it was forced to close 2 days later. Over the next 18 months designers added dampeners to stop its wobble but it already symbolised what was embarrassing and failing in British pride. Now the British Standard code of bridge loading has been updated to cover the swaying phenomenon, referred to as Synchronous Lateral Excitation. Here a surveyor stands with legs spread peering into a tripod-mounted theodolite to measure its 370 metres (1,214 ft) steel length.
    bridge_surveyor04-09-2000.jpg
  • Portrait of a seamstress with her sewing machine at couturier Margaret Howell's Edmonton workshop factory
    margaret_howell18223-05-2007 .jpg
  • A seamstress runs up garments on a sewing machine at couturier Margaret Howell's Edmonton workshop factory
    margaret_howell13623-05-2007 .jpg
  • A garment tailor works with mannequins in the design studio at couturier Margaret Howell's Edmonton workshop factory
    margaret_howell07623-05-2007 .jpg
  • Detail showing the fine stiching of a cotton dress in the design studio at couturier Margaret Howell's Edmonton workshop factory
    margaret_howell07023-05-2007 .jpg
  • Fine cloth cutting with scissors using a template pattern in the design studio at couturier Margaret Howell's workshop factory
    margaret_howell03223-05-2007 .jpg
  • A tailor uses an Eastman Bluestreak II cloth cutting machine at couturier Margaret Howell's Edmonton workshop factory
    margaret_howell00723-05-2007 .jpg
  • A detail showing the fine stitching of a cotton dress in the design studio at couturier Margaret Howell's workshop factory
    margaret howell (shop)63-04-07-2007.jpg
  • Young technician constructs European Space Agency's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) Jules Verne module at Kourou Spaceport.
    esa_guiana29816-08-2007.jpg
  • Sterile technicians construct European Space Agency's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) Jules Verne module at Kourou Spaceport.
    esa_guiana29616-08-2007.jpg
  • Sterile technicians construct European Space Agency's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) Jules Verne module at Kourou Spaceport.
    esa_guiana28716-08-2007.jpg
  • Sterile technician constructs European Space Agency's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) Jules Verne module at Kourou Spaceport.
    esa_guiana28316-08-2007.jpg
  • Sterile technicians construct European Space Agency's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) Jules Verne module at Kourou Spaceport.
    esa_guiana27916-08-2007.jpg
  • A detail showing the fine stitching of a cotton dress by couturier Margaret Howell in the company's workshop factory in Edmonton, North London. England. In close-up, the eye is drawn into the centre of focus where the buttons are held in a criss-cross stich in its four holes. There are pins in this still prototype design as it evolves from an idea on paper to an actual garment. The fine check pattern of its fabric is beautifully sewn together in this fine and intricate dress. Howell is one of Britain's more understated of couture brands alongside more flamboyant personalities. Howell admits to being "inspired by the methods by which something is made .. enjoying the tactile quality of natural fabrics such as tweeds, linen and cotton in a relaxed, natural and lived in look."
    margaret_howell06123-05-2007 .jpg
  • A beautifully simple white cotton shirt by couturier Margaret Howell is displayed in the company's workshop factory in Edmonton, North London. England. Ironed without creases, the garment has been set on a dress making tailor's dummy made by Kennett and Lindsell of Romford Essex. The pure white shirt is seen against a similarly-toned white wall and lit by daylight. Howell is one of Britain's more understated of couture brands alongside more flamboyant personalities. Howell admits to being "inspired by the methods by which something is made .. enjoying the tactile quality of natural fabrics such as tweeds, linen and cotton in a relaxed, natural and lived in look."
    margaret_howell20223-05-2007 .jpg
  • Lunchtime passer-by walks past a shadow of the Ritz Hotel sign, showing on a pillar outside the famous London landmark.
    the_ritz01-07-03-2011.jpg
  • Joining with the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team on the far left, are the smoke trails of forty leading European display aircraft: Spanish Patrulla Aguila; Italian Frecce Tricolori; French Breitling Jet Team and the Swiss Patrouille Suisse. All flew together in the clear, blue alpine skies on a spectacular fly-past at the Payerne Air 04 show, Switzerland. The two-day festival at the Swiss airfield is home of the Swiss Air Force who host the cream of international aerobatic display flying every September to 275,000 spectators over a weekend. European display teams and air forces gathered to celebrate the 90th anniversary of Swiss military aviation. Flying on the far left here, the Red Arrows have performed over 4,000 shows in 52 countries since 1965.
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  • In a sterile clean room, one module section of the European Space Agency's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) called Jules Verne, is under construction by technicians of an integration team at Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The ATV cargo carrier is the world's largest and most complex orbiting spacecraft and is a new series of autonomous spaceships designed to re-supply the International Space Station with replacement cargo, propellant, water and oxygen to the orbital outpost. Launched in March 2008 and self-destructed with waste during its return to earth's atmosphere that September, it delivered 4.6 tonnes of payload to the ISS, including 1,150 kg of dry cargo, 856 kg of propellant for the Russian Zvezda module, 270 kg of drinking water and 21 kg of oxygen.
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  • The main nose wheel of a British Airways airliner is parked on a stand at Heathrow Airport. The identifying names of the Boeing type range such as 777s, 767, 747 and 757s are also stencilled on the apron concrete to allow exact distances for expandable air bridges and other airfield vehicles to connect and service these differing-sized commercial airliners. The pilot has devices inside and outside to gauge the exact spot to break to a standstill though these marks are largely unsighted to them, high up in the cockpit. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009). ..
    heathrow_airport1090-11-08-2009.jpg
  • The main nose wheel of a British Airways airliner is parked on a stand at Heathrow Airport. The identifying names of the Boeing type range such as 777s, 767, 747 and 757s are also stencilled on the apron concrete to allow exact distances for expandable air bridges and other airfield vehicles to connect and service these differing-sized commercial airliners. The pilot has devices inside and outside to gauge the exact spot to break to a standstill though these marks are largely unsighted to them, high up in the cockpit. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009). ..
    heathrow_airport1570-20-08-2009.jpg
  • London commuters stand outside London's Paddington mainline Station to smoke or make calls beneath a large billboard about the countryside ad for brewer Shepherd Neame. Urban people are seen below the idyllic scene of rural England, tourists enjoying the peaceful great outdoors with the help of a map and bikes while below are the exact opposite: City dwellers trying to de-stress or keep in touch with the world.
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  • Tourists queue to gain entrance below the golden gates of  the Palace of Versaille, near Paris. A total of 100,000 gold leaves were crafted into the shapes of fleur de lys, crowns, masks of Apollo, cornucopias and the crossed capital Ls representing the Sun King. Private donors contributed £4 million to rebuild the 15-ton work, and a plethora of historians and top craftsmen - sculptors, gilders, wrought iron craftsmen and ornament makers - were drafted in to ensure an exact replica of the original built by Jules Hardouin-Mansart in the 1680s.
    versaille_palace01-18-08-2012.jpg
  • Climbing at sub-sonic speed, a Hawk jet aircraft of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, is seen from a neighbouring aircraft during an 'In-Season Practice' (ISP), a summer training flight over the farming fields of Lincolnshire. A landscape of agriculture is behind the red airplanes as they loop after a vertical climb. The front-seated pilot and his guest passenger stare through visors towards the wing to keep a perfect 'reference', maintaining an exact formation as seen from the ground. The Red Arrows fly to within 10 feet (3 metres) apart in some formations with speeds of 480 mph (770 kph), keeping in formation is a skill they learn every winter and refine on spare days like this between public air shows. The RAF roundel, (emblem), is on the nearest wing and the other fuselage as the world falls away in perspective.
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  • The golden gates of the Palace of Versaille, near Paris. Replicas of the original 80m wrought iron and gold leaf gates grace the entrance to Louix XVI's former power base. A total of 100,000 gold leaves were crafted into the shapes of fleur de lys, crowns, masks of Apollo, cornucopias and the crossed capital Ls representing the Sun King. Private donors contributed £4 million to rebuild the 15-ton work, and a plethora of historians and top craftsmen - sculptors, gilders, wrought iron craftsmen and ornament makers - were drafted in to ensure an exact replica of the original built by Jules Hardouin-Mansart in the 1680s.
    versaille_palace08-18-08-2012.jpg
  • The golden gates of the Palace of Versaille, near Paris. Replicas of the original 80m wrought iron and gold leaf gates grace the entrance to Louix XVI's former power base. A total of 100,000 gold leaves were crafted into the shapes of fleur de lys, crowns, masks of Apollo, cornucopias and the crossed capital Ls representing the Sun King. Private donors contributed £4 million to rebuild the 15-ton work, and a plethora of historians and top craftsmen - sculptors, gilders, wrought iron craftsmen and ornament makers - were drafted in to ensure an exact replica of the original built by Jules Hardouin-Mansart in the 1680s.
    versaille_palace07-18-08-2012.jpg
  • The golden gates of the Palace of Versaille, near Paris. Replicas of the original 80m wrought iron and gold leaf gates grace the entrance to Louix XVI's former power base. A total of 100,000 gold leaves were crafted into the shapes of fleur de lys, crowns, masks of Apollo, cornucopias and the crossed capital Ls representing the Sun King. Private donors contributed £4 million to rebuild the 15-ton work, and a plethora of historians and top craftsmen - sculptors, gilders, wrought iron craftsmen and ornament makers - were drafted in to ensure an exact replica of the original built by Jules Hardouin-Mansart in the 1680s.
    versaille_palace05-18-08-2012.jpg
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