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  • A Union Jack flag flies beneath the English Cross of St. George on a flag pole beneath an electricity pylon in a Somerset garden.
    electricity020-27-12-2007 .jpg
  • A Union Jack flag flies beneath the English Cross of St. George on a flag pole beneath an electricity pylon in a Somerset garden.
    electricity023-27-12-2007 .jpg
  • Mountain horses position themselves so that the tail of another swishes away flies from the faces of others, under Dolomites mountain in Alta Badia, south Tyrol, Italy.
    badia_abtei41-19-07-2015.jpg
  • Mountain horses position themselves so that the tail of another swishes away flies from the faces of others, under Dolomites mountain in Alta Badia, south Tyrol, Italy.
    badia_abtei40-19-07-2015.jpg
  • Mountain horses position themselves so that the tail of another swishes away flies from the faces of others, under Dolomites mountain in Alta Badia, south Tyrol, Italy.
    badia_abtei39-19-07-2015.jpg
  • Patriotic pensioner Ivor Dowling attaches the Welsh flag beneath the Union Jack to fly in his back Somerset garden.
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  • An English Cross of St. George flag flaps in a strong breeze on a flag pole near electricity pylons in Grays,  Thames Gateway
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  • A jet aircraft flies past the newly-completed One World Trde Center (WTC) on what was Ground Zero on the September 11th 2001 attacks on New York City, USA
    wtc_jet01-24-05-2014.jpg
  • The English flag flies in the churchyard of St Dunstan church, West Peckham, Kent.
    england_landscape04-07-07-2013.jpg
  • The English flag flies in the churchyard of St Dunstan church, West Peckham, Kent.
    england_landscape06-07-07-2013.jpg
  • Stored in their respective wooden boxes are the flying helmets and miscellaneous equipment belonging to two pilots of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, at their headquarters RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire. All ten pilots have their own storage space for gear. We see the place names of Reds One and Two: Squadron Leader Spike Jepson and Flight Lieutenant Matt Jarvis, whose visors are protected by soft cloths preventing scratches protective face screen. Squadron Leader Jepson is team leader and Flight Lieutenant Jarvis flies slightly behind and to the right in the Red Arrows Diamond Nine formation. On an average winter training day at Scampton, the crews will collect their kit up to six times a day in readiness for the forthcoming summer air show season. Flight Lieutenant Jarvis died of cancer one year later in March 2005. .
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  • A generic jet airliner flies overhead in blue skies on its flight-path into London Heathrow airport, on 10th August 2018, in London, England.
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  • A Boeing 787-9 jet airliner with Virgin Atlantic (G-VOWS) flies overhead in blue skies on its flight-path into London Heathrow airport, on 10th August 2018, in London, England.
    airliner_overhead-10-10-08-2018.jpg
  • A Boeing 777-222(ER) jet airliner (N228UA) flies overhead in blue skies on its flight-path into London Heathrow airport, on 10th August 2018, in London, England.
    airliner_overhead-12-10-08-2018.jpg
  • A Boeing 737 8 Max jet airliner (SP-LVD) with the Polish airline LOT, flies overhead in blue skies on its flight-path into London Heathrow airport, on 8th August 2018, in London, England.
    airliner_overhead-07-08-08-2018.jpg
  • The Welsh flag flies in summer skies on 22nd April 2017, in Clevedon, North Somerset, England.
    welsh_flag-01-22-04-2017.jpg
  • A generic jet airliner flies overhead in blue skies on its flight-path into London Heathrow airport, on 10th August 2018, in London, England.
    airliner_overhead-03-10-08-2018.jpg
  • A generic jet airliner flies overhead in blue skies on its flight-path into London Heathrow airport, on 10th August 2018, in London, England.
    airliner_overhead-04-10-08-2018.jpg
  • A 747 jet airliner with British Airways flies overhead in blue skies on its flight-path into London Heathrow airport, on 10th August 2018, in London, England.
    airliner_overhead-08-10-08-2018.jpg
  • A Boeing 777-222(ER) jet airliner (N228UA) flies overhead in blue skies on its flight-path into London Heathrow airport, on 10th August 2018, in London, England.
    airliner_overhead-13-10-08-2018.jpg
  • An Airbus 737-320 jet airliner (G-EUYH) with British Airways flies overhead in blue skies on its flight-path into London Heathrow airport, on 8th August 2018, in London, England.
    airliner_overhead-04-08-08-2018.jpg
  • An Airbus 737-320 jet airliner (G-EUYH) with British Airways flies overhead in blue skies on its flight-path into London Heathrow airport, on 8th August 2018, in London, England.
    airliner_overhead-05-08-08-2018.jpg
  • A Boeing 777-35R(ER) jet airliner with Jet Airways flies overhead in blue skies on its flight-path into London Heathrow airport, on 8th August 2018, in London, England.
    airliner_overhead-01-08-08-2018.jpg
  • A red warning flag flies on the perimeter during military live firing at Otterburn Ranges, on 28th September 2017, in Otterburn, Northumberland, England. Twenty-three per cent of Northumberland National Park is owned by the Ministry of Defence and used as a military training area though they encourage as much access to the area as possible. Sometimes areas are cordoned off from the public for military exercises. Visitors are welcome outside of live firing times if no red flags are displayed. When military exercises are happening, red flags around the boundaries indicate restricted access. Visitors are told not to pick up, kick or remove any object and not to stray off the public rights of way or tarmac roads.
    otterburn-08-28-09-2017.jpg
  • A red warning flag flies on the perimeter during military live firing at Otterburn Ranges, on 28th September 2017, in Otterburn, Northumberland, England. Twenty-three per cent of Northumberland National Park is owned by the Ministry of Defence and used as a military training area though they encourage as much access to the area as possible. Sometimes areas are cordoned off from the public for military exercises. Visitors are welcome outside of live firing times if no red flags are displayed. When military exercises are happening, red flags around the boundaries indicate restricted access. Visitors are told not to pick up, kick or remove any object and not to stray off the public rights of way or tarmac roads.
    otterburn-07-28-09-2017.jpg
  • A red warning flag flies on the perimeter during military live firing at Otterburn Ranges, on 28th September 2017, in Otterburn, Northumberland, England. Twenty-three per cent of Northumberland National Park is owned by the Ministry of Defence and used as a military training area though they encourage as much access to the area as possible. Sometimes areas are cordoned off from the public for military exercises. Visitors are welcome outside of live firing times if no red flags are displayed. When military exercises are happening, red flags around the boundaries indicate restricted access. Visitors are told not to pick up, kick or remove any object and not to stray off the public rights of way or tarmac roads.
    otterburn-06-28-09-2017.jpg
  • A red warning flag flies on the perimeter during military live firing at Otterburn Ranges, on 28th September 2017, in Otterburn, Northumberland, England. Twenty-three per cent of Northumberland National Park is owned by the Ministry of Defence and used as a military training area though they encourage as much access to the area as possible. Sometimes areas are cordoned off from the public for military exercises. Visitors are welcome outside of live firing times if no red flags are displayed. When military exercises are happening, red flags around the boundaries indicate restricted access. Visitors are told not to pick up, kick or remove any object and not to stray off the public rights of way or tarmac roads.
    otterburn-05-28-09-2017.jpg
  • A red warning flag flies on the perimeter during military live firing at Otterburn Ranges, on 28th September 2017, in Otterburn, Northumberland, England. Twenty-three per cent of Northumberland National Park is owned by the Ministry of Defence and used as a military training area though they encourage as much access to the area as possible. Sometimes areas are cordoned off from the public for military exercises. Visitors are welcome outside of live firing times if no red flags are displayed. When military exercises are happening, red flags around the boundaries indicate restricted access. Visitors are told not to pick up, kick or remove any object and not to stray off the public rights of way or tarmac roads.
    otterburn-03-28-09-2017.jpg
  • A red warning flag flies on the perimeter during military live firing at Otterburn Ranges, on 28th September 2017, in Otterburn, Northumberland, England. Twenty-three per cent of Northumberland National Park is owned by the Ministry of Defence and used as a military training area though they encourage as much access to the area as possible. Sometimes areas are cordoned off from the public for military exercises. Visitors are welcome outside of live firing times if no red flags are displayed. When military exercises are happening, red flags around the boundaries indicate restricted access. Visitors are told not to pick up, kick or remove any object and not to stray off the public rights of way or tarmac roads.
    otterburn-02-28-09-2017.jpg
  • A red warning flag flies on the perimeter during military live firing at Otterburn Ranges, on 28th September 2017, in Otterburn, Northumberland, England. Twenty-three per cent of Northumberland National Park is owned by the Ministry of Defence and used as a military training area though they encourage as much access to the area as possible. Sometimes areas are cordoned off from the public for military exercises. Visitors are welcome outside of live firing times if no red flags are displayed. When military exercises are happening, red flags around the boundaries indicate restricted access. Visitors are told not to pick up, kick or remove any object and not to stray off the public rights of way or tarmac roads.
    otterburn-01-28-09-2017.jpg
  • As a seagull flies overhead, young men wearing suits look out across the River Thames towards the Houses of Parliament in Westminster, on 21st August 2017, in London, England.
    westminster_suits-01-21-08-2017.jpg
  • Man flies kite on a summer evening in front of Edwardian period homes in Ruskin Park, south London.
    ruskin_evening01-07-06-2015.jpg
  • The British Union Jack Flag flies in a stiff breeze, its colours of red-white and blue almost wholly horizontal as the wind tears through the blue skies and beneath wispy cirrus clouds, in Eastbourne, West Sussex, England UK. Tied to its flag-pole, this symbol of patriotic nationalism, evokes a sense of pride and spirit the British are known for - having encouraged them through two world wars and more recently, other military campaigns. The colours (colors) of Scotland's blue and white crosses and the English cross of St. George are merged to make this well-known symbol of the British Isles.
    British_seaside01-01-05-2010.jpg
  • A Norwegian jet airliner flies overhead in blue skies on its flight-path into London Heathrow airport, on 10th August 2018, in London, England.
    airliner_overhead-02-10-08-2018.jpg
  • A jet airliner flies overhead in blue skies on its flight-path into London Heathrow airport, on 10th August 2018, in London, England.
    airliner_overhead-06-10-08-2018.jpg
  • A Boeing 747-436 jet airliner (GBYGG) with British Airways flies overhead in blue skies on its flight-path into London Heathrow airport, on 10th August 2018, in London, England.
    airliner_overhead-11-10-08-2018.jpg
  • A Boeing 737 8 Max jet airliner (SP-LVD) with the Polish airline LOT, flies overhead in blue skies on its flight-path into London Heathrow airport, on 8th August 2018, in London, England.
    airliner_overhead-06-08-08-2018.jpg
  • An Airbus A350-941 jet airliner (ET-AVC) with Ethiopian Airlines flies overhead in blue skies on its flight-path into London Heathrow airport, on 8th August 2018, in London, England.
    airliner_overhead-03-08-08-2018.jpg
  • A Boeing 777-F1H jet airliner (A6-EFF) with Emirates flies overhead in blue skies on its flight-path into London Heathrow airport, on 8th August 2018, in London, England.
    airliner_overhead-02-08-08-2018.jpg
  • Marine One flies over a temporary perimeter fence encircling Winfield House, the official residence of the US Ambassador during the visit to the UK of US President, Donald Trump, on 12th July 2018, in Regent's Park, London, England.
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  • Marine One flies over a temporary perimeter fence encircling Winfield House, the official residence of the US Ambassador during the visit to the UK of US President, Donald Trump, on 12th July 2018, in Regent's Park, London, England.
    trump_london-02-12-07-2018.jpg
  • A red warning flag flies on the perimeter during military live firing at Otterburn Ranges, on 28th September 2017, in Otterburn, Northumberland, England. Twenty-three per cent of Northumberland National Park is owned by the Ministry of Defence and used as a military training area though they encourage as much access to the area as possible. Sometimes areas are cordoned off from the public for military exercises. Visitors are welcome outside of live firing times if no red flags are displayed. When military exercises are happening, red flags around the boundaries indicate restricted access. Visitors are told not to pick up, kick or remove any object and not to stray off the public rights of way or tarmac roads.
    otterburn-04-28-09-2017.jpg
  • Airbus A380 9V-SKS flies overhead in south London low sunlight.
    A380_jet-01-17-11-2016.jpg
  • A passing jet airliner flies overhead, above the cross of a family mausoleum, on 14th July 2016, at Prazeres Cemetery, Lisbon, Portugal. Prazeres Cemetery (Cemitério dos Prazeres) is the largest cemetery in Lisbon, Portugal, located in the west part of the city in the former Prazeres parish. It was created in 1833 after the outbreak of a cholera epidemic. Many famous Portuguese citizens are buried here, including artists, authors and government figures, and the cemetery features many large mausoleums built in the 19th century. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    portugal_lisbon-118-14-07-2016.jpg
  • Coincidental timing of a Billy Elliot musical poster while a young skateboarder flies through the air during his acrobatic jump over steps.
    skateboarder_jump24-07-02-2014.jpg
  • A Concorde supersonic airliner registration G-BOAB flies overhead during its service for British Airways - en-route for a foreign destination. The delta-winged jet was first flown in 1969, entering commercial service in 1976 for 27 years until the disastrous in Paris ended its viability. Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde was a turbojet-powered supersonic passenger airliner or supersonic transport (SST). With a program cost of £1.3 billion and a unit cost of £23 million in 1977.
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  • The cross of St George flies above ornate reliefs on the tower of St Dunstan-in-the-West church on Fleet Street. .First founded between AD 988 and 1070, St. Dunstan-in-the-West is an Anglican Guild Church in the City of London. The present building has stood on Fleet Street for over 170 years. Dunstan was one of the foremost Saints of Anglo-Saxon England. At weekends St Dunstan's is used by the Romanian Orthodox Church.
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  • Seen from the steps of Westminster underground tube station, foreign tourists walk along Whitehall days before the royal wedding ceremony of Prince William and Kate Middleton. Their spending and interest in this state occasion will bring in millions of Pounds into the country's exchequer, bolstering local businesses at a time of debt and recession. The Union Jack flies along the wedding procession route as the nation prepares to celebrate the state occasion.
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  • Parked on the apron at Paris Orly Airport, a lone pilot of the French national airline Air France, leans out of his right-hand seat's cockpit window of his Boeing 777-328/ER aircraft (F-GSQT). It is a bright morning at this international hub for Air France and without help from ground staff, the silver-haired gentleman who may be the captain and commander of the aircraft (because of age and seat position) has decided to get on with the job of cleaning his window himself much like a driver wiping away flies from his car windscreen. Here however, this chore being performed approximately six meters off the ground so safety is vital - just as a clear front view for the flight-deck crew before their flight. Attached to the plane is the mobile walkway, the air bridge, that awaits boarding passengers but no 'ramp agent' is below.  .
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  • The British Union Jack Flag flies in a stiff breeze, its colours of red-white and blue almost wholly horizontal as the wind tears through the blue skies and beneath wispy cirrus clouds, in Eastbourne, West Sussex, England UK. Tied to its flag-pole, this symbol of patriotic nationalism, evokes a sense of pride and spirit the British are known for - having encouraged them through two world wars and more recently, other military campaigns. The colours (colors) of Scotland's blue and white crosses and the English cross of St. George are merged to make this well-known symbol of the British Isles.
    union_jack03-11-04-2010.jpg
  • A union jack flies proudly in front of tall Leylandii trees in a garden at Horning on the Norfolk Broads. As a statement of British territorial ownership in sububia where an Englishman's home is his castle is reflected also in his garden and the high boundaries between him and his neighbour, with the blight of the evergreen - a screen of privacy and supremacy. Even on sites of relatively poor culture, plants have been known to grow to heights of 15 metres (49 ft) in 16 years. Their rapid, thick growth means they are sometimes used to enforce privacy, but such use can result in disputes with neighbours whose own property becomes overshadowed.[
    british_garden01-01-08-2013.jpg
  • Britain's Union Jack flag flies in a breeze with British Parliament's Big Ben clock tower at the Palace of Westminster in the background. As a symbol of parliamentary power and a national democracy, the colours flutter in a breeze alongside the Thames River on the southern Lambeth bank side. The clock shows just after 1 in the afternoon. The Palace, also known as the Houses of Parliament or Westminster Palace, is where the two Houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (the House of Lords and the House of Commons) conduct their business. It is therefore a potent symbol for British Governmental power, influence and a world-famous landmark for tourists. Big Ben is the name of the clock's bell and not the tower itself.
    big_ben_flag2-19-July-2011.jpg
  • Britain's Union Jack flag flies in a breeze with British Parliament's Big Ben clock tower at the Palace of Westminster in the background. As a symbol of parliamentary power and a national democracy, the colours flutter in a breeze alongside the Thames River on the southern Lambeth bank side. The clock shows just after 1 in the afternoon. The Palace, also known as the Houses of Parliament or Westminster Palace, is where the two Houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (the House of Lords and the House of Commons) conduct their business. It is therefore a potent symbol for British Governmental power, influence and a world-famous landmark for tourists. Big Ben is the name of the clock's bell and not the tower itself.
    big_ben_flag1-19-July-2011.jpg
  • Squadron Leader Duncan Mason of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, strides out across a gloomy, rainswept 'apron' at RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire. Squadron Leader Mason will fly up to 6 times daily during winter training ,when weather permits, learning new manoeuvres. Wearing winter green flying suits, their day is spent flying and de-briefing. Mason  wears a green flying suit with anti-g pants and helmet on with its pilot number. He is being greeted by a member of the team's support ground crew who outnumber the pilots 8:1.  The engineer wears a fluorescent yellow tabard and stands politely by the waiting aircraft on the 'line'. He has already prepared it for flight and helps with any technical issues that may arise.
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  • A competitor in the annual Birdman of Bognor event attempts to fly at Bognor Regis, East Sussex, England. English eccentrics gather annually at the southern seaside town to jump from the pier into the chilly waters of the English Channel. Fun jumpers ?wearing? their aeroplane suits compete for a £25,000 prize for the one to fly 100 metres from the pier platform ? a record not yet achieved. Entrants (who often jump for charity rather than any aeronautical pretensions) include sugar plum fairies, condoms, Ninja Turtles and vampires. The winner was a hang-glider pilot reaching 26 metres but here, a Spitfire sponsored by a milk company drops vertically. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903. .
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  • Brian Lecomber flew as a professional aerobatic pilot for 23 years, during which time his Firebird Aerobatics team completed over 2,800 solo and formation displays in front of an estimated total of 90 million spectators. They gave displays in 15 countries, and had a 100% safety record before closing in 2003. They will be remembered as one of the UK's most successful professional civilian aerobatic display company. Lecomber has been a racing motorcycle mechanic; journalist; wing-walker in a flying circus; chief flying instructor in the Caribbean; crop-spray pilot, and then a best-selling author of aviation novels. We see him in-flight performing a tight turn above southern English fields of Buckinghamshire with flying partner Alan Wade when the team was sponsored by the Rover Group.
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  • Squadron Leader John Green the executive officer of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, instructs a group of RAF fighter pilots in the art of manual close-formation aerobatic flying. Explaining how to line up their aircraft with their nearest neighbour using a system called 'referencing', he shows them with his fingers the margin of error that is tolerated when only 12ft (3-4m) apart and flying at 400mph (650kph).  The recruits all hope to be selected for next year's team and have travelled to RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus where the Red Arrows complete their pre-season training. Seen from beneath the Hawk jet aircraft's nose on the 'line' Squadron Leader Green kneels by the trailing wing edge to demonstrate what he will expect from their upcoming flying test.
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  • Flight Lieutenant Simon Stevens, a pilot in the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, makes a pre-flight check of his Hawk jet aircraft before a practice flight at RAF Scampton. Stevens and his fellow-aviators fly up to 6 times in winter training, learning new manoeuvres. The dangers of high-speed close formation flight makes health and safety precuations vital; the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and the Royal Air Force take working environments of their personnel seriously so pre-flight examination of aircraft happens before every sortie (flight). Performing the brief safety walk-around, Stevens bends at the waste to avoid the aeroplane's low aileron despite wearing a helmet, full flying suit, boots, life-vest and anti-g-pants. Flying still continues despite rainclouds in the gloomy Lincolnshire sky.
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  • The stars of the EU flag fly over the Victoria Tower at the  Houses of Parliament in Westminster, seat of government and power of the United Kingdom during Brexit negotiations with Brussels, on 30th January 2018, in London England.
    eu_flag-01-30-01-2018.jpg
  • The stars of the EU flag fly over the Houses of Parliament in Westminster, seat of government and power of the United Kingdom during Brexit negotiations with Brussels, on 23rd November 2017, in London England.
    eu_flag-20-23-11-2017.jpg
  • The stars of the EU flag fly over the Houses of Parliament in Westminster, seat of government and power of the United Kingdom during Brexit negotiations with Brussels, on 23rd November 2017, in London England.
    eu_flag-15-23-11-2017.jpg
  • The stars of the EU flag fly over the Houses of Parliament in Westminster, seat of government and power of the United Kingdom during Brexit negotiations with Brussels, on 23rd November 2017, in London England.
    eu_flag-11-23-11-2017.jpg
  • The stars of the EU flag fly over the Houses of Parliament in Westminster, seat of government and power of the United Kingdom during Brexit negotiations with Brussels, on 23rd November 2017, in London England.
    eu_flag-06-23-11-2017.jpg
  • The stars of the EU flag fly over the Houses of Parliament in Westminster, seat of government and power of the United Kingdom during Brexit negotiations with Brussels, on 23rd November 2017, in London England.
    eu_flag-05-23-11-2017.jpg
  • The stars of the EU flag fly over the Victoria Tower at the  Houses of Parliament in Westminster, seat of government and power of the United Kingdom during Brexit negotiations with Brussels, on 23rd November 2017, in London England.
    eu_flag-04-23-11-2017.jpg
  • The stars of the EU flag fly over a London bus and the Houses of Parliament in Westminster, seat of government and power of the United Kingdom during Brexit negotiations with Brussels, on 23rd November 2017, in London England.
    eu_flag-02-23-11-2017.jpg
  • Young women are unaware of a young skateboarder suddenly flying through the air during his acrobatic jump over steps during London's rush hour.
    skateboarder_jump21-07-02-2014.jpg
  • Commuters watch a young skateboarder flying through the air during his acrobatic jump over steps during London's rush hour.
    skateboarder_jump13-07-02-2014.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
  • 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_Arrows673_RBA.jpg
  • Pilots belonging to the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, walk in line from their parked Hawk jet aircraft during their two-day visit to the airfield at the Payerne Air 04 show, Switzerland. It is a perfect day for aerobatics with blue alpine skies during the teams' two-day visit to the Swiss airfield. Payerne 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. The team walk towards waiting transport wearing the red flying suits, synonymous with an ambassadorial role for the UK and recruiting tool for the RAF's pilots of the future. SInce their birth in 1965, they have performed over 4,000 shows in 52 countries. .
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  • Nine pilots of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, stand in the shape of their signature 'Diamond Nine' formation with one of their Hawk jet aircraft at the team's headquarters at RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire. Today they have reached the all-important milestone of 'first 9-ship' (when all nine aircraft have flown a basic air show display together, after two groups have practiced seperately) and is the culmination of five months rigorous Winter training. They stand proud with beaming smiles on a warm spring day, their flying helmets with those famous arrows pointing towards blue sky and fluffy clouds. Still dressed in green flying suits, they go on to their spring training ground at Akrotiri, Cyprus where they earn the right to wear red suits, known around the world. At the front is team leader, Squadron Leader Spike Jepson...
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  • Officer pilots of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, lean aginst a wing of their Hawk jet in a pre-flight briefing while a member of their ground crew positions some wheel chocks. The highly-skilled engineer is known as a 'Blue' but the 'Reds' discuss  flight plans. Eleven trades skills are imported from some sixty that the RAF employs and teaches. It is mid-day and only their flying boots and red legs are seen with the RAF roundel emblem is on the underside of the wing. The better-educated officers in the armed forces enjoy a more privileged lifestyle than their support staff. In the aerobatic squadron, the Blues outnumber the pilots 8:1. Without them, the Red Arrows couldn't fly. SOme of the team's Hawks are 25 years old and their air frames require constant attention, with increasingly frequent major overhauls due.
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  • Flight Lieutenant Dan Simmons of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, zips up his g-pants before climbing into his Hawk jet. G-pants counterac the effects of high gravity stresses that jet-fighters impose on the human body, automatically inflating and squeezing blood back to the thorax and head when blood drains towards the legs. As he attaches the zipper, he rests his straight right leg on a retractable step which helps him and his ground crew engineers to gain access to the cockpit, high above the ground. Hanging from another part of his airplane is his life-vest which he will wear around his neck, whilst in flight. Flight Lieutenant Simmons wears heavy-duty black boots which are regulation footwear for flying personnel and dressed in his red flying suit that is famous around the world.
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  • Specialist Corporal Mal Faulder is an armourer engineer (qualified to handle ejection seats and weaponry on military jets) but here in the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team he is seen polishing the aircraft's flying surfaces using wool and cleaning fluid on the morning of the team's PDA Day. PDA (or 'Public Display Authority'), is a special test flight when their every move and mistake is assessed and graded. Corporal Faulder is to buff up the airplane for an extra special shine on such an important day and we see the UK's Union Jack flag on the side of the diagonal stripes of the tail fin. The Red Arrows ground crew take enormous pride in their role as supporting the aviators whose air displays are known around the world. Blues like Mal outnumber the pilots 8:1. Without them, the Red Arrows couldn't fly.
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  • In the mid-day heat, Squadron Leader John Green is a member of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team. Here he walks out alone to his aircraft, which is lined up with some of the others jets at RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus before flying out to Marka in Jordan for the first display of the year. The Red Arrows arrive each April to fine-tune their air show skills in the clear Mediterranean skies and continue their busy display calendar above the skies of the UK and other European show circuit. We see John Green carrying his flight bag and life-vest over his shoulder. He paces confidently across the bright 'apron' dressed in his famous red flying suit that the Red Arrows have made famous since 1965. He is alone and striding confidently towards the matching red eight Hawk airplanes.
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  • Flight Lieutenant Dave Slow of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, is seated in a BAE Systems Hawk jet aircraft simulator at the fast-jet flying training centre, RAF Valley, Anglesey, Wales. Like all fast-jet pilots, Flight Lieutenant Slow is required to complete this emergency drill every six months. The pilot is seated in his ejector seat as if in a real jet using back-projected computer graphics representing a generic landscape below. Each aviator proves they can cope with a series of failures that operators select: Engine, hydraulic failure or bird strike.  Apart from the aircraft fuselage, the high-tech facility loads malfunctions on a pilot that he could experience in reality. The version of Hawk that the Red Arrows fly is actually a primitive piece of equipment, without computers or fly-by-wire technology.
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  • The stars of the EU flag fly over the Houses of Parliament in Westminster, seat of government and power of the United Kingdom during Brexit negotiations with Brussels, on 23rd November 2017, in London England.
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  • The stars of the EU flag fly over the Houses of Parliament in Westminster, seat of government and power of the United Kingdom during Brexit negotiations with Brussels, on 23rd November 2017, in London England.
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  • The stars of the EU flag fly over the Houses of Parliament in Westminster, seat of government and power of the United Kingdom during Brexit negotiations with Brussels, on 23rd November 2017, in London England.
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  • The stars of the EU flag fly over the Houses of Parliament in Westminster, seat of government and power of the United Kingdom during Brexit negotiations with Brussels, on 23rd November 2017, in London England.
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  • The stars of the EU flag fly over the Houses of Parliament in Westminster, seat of government and power of the United Kingdom during Brexit negotiations with Brussels, on 23rd November 2017, in London England.
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  • The stars of the EU flag fly over the Victoria Tower at the  Houses of Parliament in Westminster, seat of government and power of the United Kingdom during Brexit negotiations with Brussels, on 23rd November 2017, in London England.
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  • The stars of the EU flag fly over a London bus and the Houses of Parliament in Westminster, seat of government and power of the United Kingdom during Brexit negotiations with Brussels, on 23rd November 2017, in London England.
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  • The stars of the EU flag fly over a London tour bus and the Houses of Parliament in Westminster, seat of government and power of the United Kingdom during Brexit negotiations with Brussels, on 23rd November 2017, in London England.
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  • The stars of the EU flag fly over the Victoria Tower at the  Houses of Parliament in Westminster, seat of government and power of the United Kingdom during Brexit negotiations with Brussels, on 23rd November 2017, in London England.
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  • The stars of the EU flag fly over a London bus and the Houses of Parliament in Westminster, seat of government and power of the United Kingdom during Brexit negotiations with Brussels, on 23rd November 2017, in London England.
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  • The stars of the EU flag fly over a London bus and the Houses of Parliament in Westminster, seat of government and power of the United Kingdom during Brexit negotiations with Brussels, on 23rd November 2017, in London England.
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  • A young woman drinks, unaware of a young skateboarder flying through the air during his acrobatic jump over steps during London's rush hour.
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  • Pedestrians ignore a young skateboarder flying through the air during his acrobatic jump over steps during London's rush hour.
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  • Onlookers watch a young skateboarder flying through the air during his acrobatic jump down steps.
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  • Pedestrians ignore a young skateboarder flying through the air during his acrobatic jump down steps.
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  • An airshow aviation enthusiast adorned with badges enjoy aerobatic activity above their heads at Biggin Hill, Kent, England. As a helicopter banks tightly to the right, other groupies film something else to the left from the public areas during the many varied flying displays  at this small airfield north of London that saw action as an important airfield during the WW2 Battle of Britain, a location for the "Operations Room" for the Operation Crossbow V-1 flying bomb defences.
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  • New first year pilots of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team try on their new red flying suits for size.
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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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.
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  • A detailed view of a Mark 1 Hawk jet belonging to 'Synchro Leader' of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team. We see the flight controls and instrument panels looking grubby and worn with grey paint rubbed or flaking off. This version of the BAE Systems Hawk is low-tech without computers nor fly-by-wire technology it is one of the most user-friendly modern jets to fly and serves as a first step trainer for pilots to accumulate fast-jet flying hours and who are destined for the most sophisticated of fast military fighters in the future. Their aerobatic displays demands that their workhorse machine must have phenominal turning circle ability and rate of climb. The team's aircraft are in some cases over 25 years old and their airframes require constant attention, with frequent engineering overhauls needed. .
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  • Craning their necks skyward, both a pilot and support ground engineers of elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, gaze up to view an air display directly overhead at the Payerne Air 04 show, Switzerland. It is a perfect day for aerobatics with blue skies and during the team's two-day visit to the Swiss airfield at Payerne. Pilot Squadron Leader John Green is one of nine aviators who are collectively known as the Reds because of their famous red flying suits. The ground crew are obviously called the Blues. Payerne 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. The picture is full of humour because John Green is looking one way and the two others look in the opposite direction, while standing next to the aircraft.   .
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  • Flying overhead into the distance, Hawk jet aircraft of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, leave behind a trail of red, white and blue smoke in the clear skies above RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus. 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.
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