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  • Two people of east Asian-descent look at Toshiba laptops displayed in a computer specialist in Tottenham Court Road - the centre for technology, gadgets and computing in central London. It is 1990 and the smaller, more portable laptop market is just taking off. The man takes notes on paper, writing prices, technical  specifications and offers for these Japanese-made items. Vying for sales with Toshiba in this particular window is Psion, Epson and Canon - all players in the early 1990s.
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  • Engineering ground staff of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team, consult technical information on Mod computers.
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  • Member of the Blues, the technical ground staff with the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team works on Hawk.
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  • Detail of NATS air traffic controller's hand pointing to flight IDs on screen in control tower at Heathrow airport, London.
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  • NATS Heathrow air traffic controller in control tower at Heathrow airport, London.
    adie_dolan_atc143-03-06-2014.jpg
  • Detail of stealth technology surfaces on a Lockheed-Martin F-35 II Joint Strike Fighter at the Farnborough Air Show, England. The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is a family of single-seat, single-engine, fifth-generation multirole fighters under development to perform ground attack, reconnaissance, and air defense missions with stealth capability. F-35 JSF development is being principally funded by the United States with additional funding from partners. The partner nations are either NATO members or close U.S. allies.
    farnborough_air_show08-14-07-2014.jpg
  • A new model of Routemaster bus has broken down and disrupts traffic in a City of London street. The New Bus for London, sometimes referred to as NB4L, and colloquially as the New Routemaster or Borismaster (after the Mayor of London who drove their introduction) is a 21st-century replacement of the iconic AEC Routemaster as a bus built specifically for use in London. Designed by Heatherwick Studio, it is built by Wrightbus, and features the 'hop-on hop-off' rear open platform of the original Routemaster, but meets the requirements for modern buses to be fully accessible. The first bus entered service on 27 February 2012. The cost of each bus is £354,500.
    bus_breakdown04-10-10-2013.jpg
  • Architectural landscape of missile silo doors entrance at the former nuclear weapons-era airfield occupied by US Air force personnel during the Cold War and now vacant, awaiting re-landscaping and returning to common parkland for the public to use. Opened in 1942, it was used by both the Royal Air Force and United States Army Air Forces during World War II and the United States Air Force during the Cold War. After the Cold War ended, it was closed in 1993. The airfield was also known for the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp held outside its gates in the 1980s. In 1997 Greenham Common was designated as public parkland.
    greenham_common15-19-03-2003.jpg
  • Engineering ground staff of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team, during turnarounds of training flights.
    Red_Arrows304_RBA.jpg
  • Engineering ground staff of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team, rest in the shade before working on their Hawk jets.
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  • Trays of spilled dye derv he hangar that makes the coloured smoke of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team.
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  • Lying in undergrowth, a camouflaged British infantry soldier is seen squinting down the telescopic sight of the new British-made Long Range L115A3 sniper rifle on Salisbury Plain, Warminster, England. Sniping means concealment, observation and assassination, a strategy the British are using more against the Taliban in Afghanistan. Swiss Lapua .338 inch rounds (8.59mm) travel at sub-sonic speeds of 936 metres/sec, finding its target accurately up to 1,100 metres. The rifle weighs 6.8kg with telescopic image-intensified scopes to 25x life size vision, made by Schmidt & Bender. Front-mounted 'suppressor' minimises the signature normally compromising snipers' position. At £23,000 each, a £4 million contract has been awarded to Accuracy International, to provide the Army, Royal Marines and RAF. The British say this is the best sniper rifle in the world.
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  • From 1,100m away, a shooting target at a firing range belonging to the Land Warfare Centre, has been punctured by bullet holes from a new British-made Long Range L115A3 sniper rifle on Salisbury Plain, Warminster, England.  Sniping means concealment, observation and assassination, a strategy the British are using more against the Taliban in Afghanistan. Swiss Lapua .338 inch rounds (8.59mm) travel at sub-sonic speeds of 936 metres/sec, finding its target accurately up to 1km. The rifle weighs 6.8kg with telescopic image-intensified scopes to 25x life size vision, made by Schmidt & Bender. Front-mounted 'suppressor' minimises the signature normally compromising snipers' position. At £23,000 each, a £4 million contract has been awarded to Accuracy International, to provide the Army, Royal Marines and RAF. The army say it's their best ever sniper rifle.
    sniper_rifle09-06-03-2008 .jpg
  • Squiggles and unreadable notes written on a whiteboard at an auditing companys's London headquarters
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  • Gnomes and garden figures displayed below an electricity pylon in a back Somerset garden.
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  • An electricity pylon stands astride a car park at a local Rugby club on land near Wrington, North Somerset England.
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  • A sign showing instant death warns anyone climbing this electricity pylon standing in woodland near Wrington, North Somerset England.
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  • Billy Cocklin has painted woz ere on the aluminium leg of an electricity pylon near a housing estate in Beckton.
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  • Plantation of sapling trees near an electricity pylon on Rainham Marshes, Essex.
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  • Camouflaged birdspotters peer through binoculars for wildlife at the RSPB's bird and wildlife reserve at Rainham Marshes, Essex
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  • Thorny twig in the foreground near an electricity pylon behind one foggy morning on Botany Marshes, Swanscombe, Kent
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  • Detail of NATS air traffic controllers' screen plan of ground operations, in control tower at Heathrow airport, London.
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  • Detail of NATS air traffic controllers' screen plan of ground operations, in control tower at Heathrow airport, London.
    adie_dolan_atc378-03-06-2014.jpg
  • Detail of NATS air traffic controller's hand and radio trigger in control tower at Heathrow airport, London.
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  • Detail of spare NATS air traffic controllers' headsets in control tower at Heathrow airport, London.
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  • Detail of spare NATS air traffic controllers' headsets in control tower at Heathrow airport, London.
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  • NATS Heathrow air traffic controller in control tower at Heathrow airport, London.
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  • NATS Heathrow air traffic controller in control tower at Heathrow airport, London.
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  • NATS Heathrow air traffic controller in control tower at Heathrow airport, London.
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  • NATS Heathrow air traffic controller in control tower at Heathrow airport, London.
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  • NATS Heathrow air traffic controller in control tower at Heathrow airport, London.
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  • NATS Heathrow air traffic controller in control tower at Heathrow airport, London.
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  • NATS Heathrow air traffic controller in control tower at Heathrow airport, London.
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  • Ballerina, Dorothée Gilbert warms up in the Salon de Danse, at the Palais Garnier, Paris. <br />
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From the chapter entitled 'Etoile' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015). <br />
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FOR REPRODUCTION OTHER THAN RELATED TO THE BOOK 'RISK WISE', PERMISSION FROM DOROTHEE GILBERT IS REQUIRED.
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  • Ballerina, Dorothée Gilbert warms up in the Salon de Danse, at the Palais Garnier, Paris. <br />
<br />
From the chapter entitled 'Etoile' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015). <br />
<br />
FOR REPRODUCTION OTHER THAN RELATED TO THE BOOK 'RISK WISE', PERMISSION FROM DOROTHEE GILBERT IS REQUIRED.
    dorothee_gilbert275-05-06-2014.jpg
  • Ballerina, Dorothée Gilbert warms up in the Salon de Danse, at the Palais Garnier, Paris. <br />
<br />
From the chapter entitled 'Etoile' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015). <br />
<br />
FOR REPRODUCTION OTHER THAN RELATED TO THE BOOK 'RISK WISE', PERMISSION FROM DOROTHEE GILBERT IS REQUIRED.
    dorothee_gilbert262-05-06-2014.jpg
  • Ballerina, Dorothée Gilbert warms up in the Salon de Danse, at the Palais Garnier, Paris. <br />
<br />
From the chapter entitled 'Etoile' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015). <br />
<br />
FOR REPRODUCTION OTHER THAN RELATED TO THE BOOK 'RISK WISE', PERMISSION FROM DOROTHEE GILBERT IS REQUIRED.
    dorothee_gilbert303-05-06-2014.jpg
  • Ballerina, Dorothée Gilbert warms up in the Salon de Danse, at the Palais Garnier, Paris. <br />
<br />
From the chapter entitled 'Etoile' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015). <br />
<br />
FOR REPRODUCTION OTHER THAN RELATED TO THE BOOK 'RISK WISE', PERMISSION FROM DOROTHEE GILBERT IS REQUIRED.
    dorothee_gilbert292-05-06-2014.jpg
  • Ballerina, Dorothée Gilbert warms up in the Salon de Danse, at the Palais Garnier, Paris. <br />
<br />
From the chapter entitled 'Etoile' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015). <br />
<br />
FOR REPRODUCTION OTHER THAN RELATED TO THE BOOK 'RISK WISE', PERMISSION FROM DOROTHEE GILBERT IS REQUIRED.
    dorothee_gilbert289-05-06-2014.jpg
  • Ballerina, Dorothée Gilbert warms up in the Salon de Danse, at the Palais Garnier, Paris. <br />
<br />
From the chapter entitled 'Etoile' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015). <br />
<br />
FOR REPRODUCTION OTHER THAN RELATED TO THE BOOK 'RISK WISE', PERMISSION FROM DOROTHEE GILBERT IS REQUIRED.
    dorothee_gilbert305-05-06-2014.jpg
  • NATS Heathrow air traffic controller in control tower at Heathrow airport, London. <br />
<br />
From the chapter entitled 'Up in the Air' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
    adie_dolan_atc329-03-06-2014.jpg
  • NATS Heathrow air traffic controller in control tower at Heathrow airport, London. <br />
<br />
From the chapter entitled 'Up in the Air' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
    adie_dolan_atc366-03-06-2014.jpg
  • Spinning turbine blades of the Wind farm near the Cornish town of Delabole in England are blurred against fast-fading light. We barely see the three blades as they revolve to produce electricity for the national grid. First operational in mid December 1991 they were a very controversial project with locals who saw them as a blot on their familiar c though it’s permission went ahead nonetheless. The 10 turbines operated by Windelectric are carefully positioned in existing hedge lines about 270 m apart and have an annual output of about 12 million Kw hours, which equals 1 years consumption by 2700 average homes (a small town). To produce the same amount of electricity by conventional means, about 2000 tonnes of oil or 5000 tonnes of coal would have to be burnt each year, this has a Co2 offset of 4,475 tonnes.
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  • Flying machine invention and Last Supper painting at Chateau de Clos Lucé, home to Leonardo da Vinci for the last 3 years of his life and now a celebration of his life and achievements, Amboise, France.
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  • Delegate makes a call alongside a Spear missile of defence manufacturer MBDA at the Farnborough Air Show, England. MBDA, a world leader in missiles and missile systems, is a multi-national group with 10,000 employees working across France, the United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, Spain and the United States.
    farnborough_air_show44-14-07-2014.jpg
  • Covered stealth technology engine on a Lockheed-Martin F-35 II Joint Strike Fighter at the Farnborough Air Show, England. The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is a family of single-seat, single-engine, fifth-generation multirole fighters under development to perform ground attack, reconnaissance, and air defense missions with stealth capability. F-35 JSF development is being principally funded by the United States with additional funding from partners. The partner nations are either NATO members or close U.S. allies.
    farnborough_air_show18-14-07-2014.jpg
  • Detail of stealth technology surfaces on a Lockheed-Martin F-35 II Joint Strike Fighter at the Farnborough Air Show, England. The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is a family of single-seat, single-engine, fifth-generation multirole fighters under development to perform ground attack, reconnaissance, and air defense missions with stealth capability. F-35 JSF development is being principally funded by the United States with additional funding from partners. The partner nations are either NATO members or close U.S. allies.
    farnborough_air_show16-14-07-2014.jpg
  • Detail of stealth technology surfaces on a Lockheed-Martin F-35 II Joint Strike Fighter at the Farnborough Air Show, England. The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is a family of single-seat, single-engine, fifth-generation multirole fighters under development to perform ground attack, reconnaissance, and air defense missions with stealth capability. F-35 JSF development is being principally funded by the United States with additional funding from partners. The partner nations are either NATO members or close U.S. allies.
    farnborough_air_show15-14-07-2014.jpg
  • Detail of stealth technology surfaces on a Lockheed-Martin F-35 II Joint Strike Fighter at the Farnborough Air Show, England. The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is a family of single-seat, single-engine, fifth-generation multirole fighters under development to perform ground attack, reconnaissance, and air defense missions with stealth capability. F-35 JSF development is being principally funded by the United States with additional funding from partners. The partner nations are either NATO members or close U.S. allies.
    farnborough_air_show10-14-07-2014.jpg
  • Detail of stealth technology surfaces on a Lockheed-Martin F-35 II Joint Strike Fighter at the Farnborough Air Show, England. The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is a family of single-seat, single-engine, fifth-generation multirole fighters under development to perform ground attack, reconnaissance, and air defense missions with stealth capability. F-35 JSF development is being principally funded by the United States with additional funding from partners. The partner nations are either NATO members or close U.S. allies.
    farnborough_air_show09-14-07-2014.jpg
  • Detail of stealth technology surfaces on a Lockheed-Martin F-35 II Joint Strike Fighter at the Farnborough Air Show, England. The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is a family of single-seat, single-engine, fifth-generation multirole fighters under development to perform ground attack, reconnaissance, and air defense missions with stealth capability. F-35 JSF development is being principally funded by the United States with additional funding from partners. The partner nations are either NATO members or close U.S. allies.
    farnborough_air_show06-14-07-2014.jpg
  • A Chinese exile is interviewed by a radio journalist opposite his embassy a day after the Tiananmen Sq massacre. Using old technology consisting of a tape recorder and analogue microphone, the reporter records the words of an activist, his words being broadcast, potentially across the world. The political crackdown that initiated on June 3–4 1989 became known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre as troops with assault rifles and tanks inflicted casualties on unarmed civilians trying to block the military’s advance towards Tiananmen Square in the heart of Beijing, which student demonstrators had occupied for seven weeks.
    tiananmen_london02-05-06-1989.jpg
  • A new model of Routemaster bus has broken down and disrupts traffic in a City of London street. The New Bus for London, sometimes referred to as NB4L, and colloquially as the New Routemaster or Borismaster (after the Mayor of London who drove their introduction) is a 21st-century replacement of the iconic AEC Routemaster as a bus built specifically for use in London. Designed by Heatherwick Studio, it is built by Wrightbus, and features the 'hop-on hop-off' rear open platform of the original Routemaster, but meets the requirements for modern buses to be fully accessible. The first bus entered service on 27 February 2012. The cost of each bus is £354,500.
    bus_breakdown06-10-10-2013.jpg
  • A new model of Routemaster bus has broken down and disrupts traffic in a City of London street. The New Bus for London, sometimes referred to as NB4L, and colloquially as the New Routemaster or Borismaster (after the Mayor of London who drove their introduction) is a 21st-century replacement of the iconic AEC Routemaster as a bus built specifically for use in London. Designed by Heatherwick Studio, it is built by Wrightbus, and features the 'hop-on hop-off' rear open platform of the original Routemaster, but meets the requirements for modern buses to be fully accessible. The first bus entered service on 27 February 2012. The cost of each bus is £354,500.
    bus_breakdown01-10-10-2013.jpg
  • A detail of the bomb-aimer's window in the nose of a Victor bomber from the nuclear Cold War V-bomber era. The Handley Page Victor was a British jet-powered strategic bomber, developed and produced by the Handley Page Aircraft Company and served during the Cold War. It was the third and final of the V-bombers operated by the Royal Air Force (RAF)
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  • Detail of the catapult that propels F-A/18 fighters from the deck of the US Navy's Harry S Truman aircraft carrier whilst on exercise somewhere in the Persian Gulf. The cable drives $38 million F/A-18s fighters off the ship's deck and into the air from a standing position. The angled flight decks of the carriers use a CATOBAR arrangement to operate aircraft, with steam catapults and arrestor wires for launch and recovery. The Truman is the largest and newest of the US Navy's fleet of new generation carriers, a 97,000 ton floating city with a crew of  5,137, 650 are women.
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  • Architectural detail of a missile silo door entrance at the former nuclear weapons-era airfield occupied by US Air force personnel during the Cold War and now vacant, awaiting re-landscaping and returning to common parkland for the public to use. Opened in 1942, it was used by both the Royal Air Force and United States Army Air Forces during World War II and the United States Air Force during the Cold War. After the Cold War ended, it was closed in 1993. The airfield was also known for the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp held outside its gates in the 1980s. In 1997 Greenham Common was designated as public parkland.
    greenham_common04-19-03-2003.jpg
  • An airline flight-engineer occupies his own seat in the cockpit of a Boeing 747 - before the era arrived when technology made his role as a third flight crew member redundant. With a bowl of fresh fruit beside his seat, the male member of the flight-deck crew watches instruments and readings in front of the unseen pilots at the front. Wearing the three stripes designating his rank and seniority within his unspecified airline, the specialist's skills are in engineering systems that maintain efficient flight. When introduced, the Boeing 747-400 model was equipped with a two-crew glass cockpit, which dispensed with the need for a flight engineer - many of whom lost their jobs or retrained as pilots themselves.
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  • Late night work on a cargo pallet Ball Mat Flooring System by an engineer staff member who performs maintenance checks in the British Airways engineering hangar on the far side of London's Heathrow airport. On his hands and knees in the otherwise spacious compartment beneath the aircraft passengers' cabin, the hold is used for storing cargo freight and baggage containers that are pushed freely along then locked into position during the loading process.
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  • A Boeing 747 is surrounded by gantries during late night work by engineering staff who perform maintenance checks in the British Airways engineering hangar on the far side of London's Heathrow airport. As a landscape of confusing lines and linear design, we see the paintwork of the jet aircraft echoed in those of the platform struts and the steps that help the maintenance crews gain height and access to the high places required for the work to be carried out. At its tallest point, the 747's tail is 63 feet (19m).
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  • Man waves arms in the dark creating blurred effect in the darkness.
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  • Amercian NBC TV correspondent Natalie Morales plus technicians reports live for the Today show from media village behind railings as tension mounts outside St Mary's Hospital, Paddington London. Here, media and royalists await news of Kate, Duchess of Cambridge's impending labour and birth. Some have been camping out for up to two weeks during a UK heatwave, having bagged the best locations where an heir to the British throne will eventually be shown to the world.
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  • Amercian NBC TV correspondent Natalie Morales plus technicians reports live for the Today show from media village behind railings as tension mounts outside St Mary's Hospital, Paddington London. Here, media and royalists await news of Kate, Duchess of Cambridge's impending labour and birth. Some have been camping out for up to two weeks during a UK heatwave, having bagged the best locations where an heir to the British throne will eventually be shown to the world.
    royal_baby-wait20-19-07-2013.jpg
  • London 19th July 2013: Media interview Met policeman as tension mounts outside St Mary's Hospital, Paddington London, where media and royalists await news of Kate, Duchess of Cambridge's impending labour and birth. Some have been camping out for up to two weeks during a UK heatwave, having bagged the best locations where an heir to the British throne will eventually be shown to the world. Copyright Richard Baker/Alamy Live News
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  • Amercian NBC TV correspondent Natalie Morales plus technicians reports live for the Today show from media village behind railings as tension mounts outside St Mary's Hospital, Paddington London. Here, media and royalists await news of Kate, Duchess of Cambridge's impending labour and birth. Some have been camping out for up to two weeks during a UK heatwave, having bagged the best locations where an heir to the British throne will eventually be shown to the world.
    royal_baby-wait18-19-07-2013.jpg
  • US NBC TV reporter and technicians in media village behind railings as tension mounts outside St Mary's Hospital, Paddington London, where media and royalists await news of Kate, Duchess of Cambridge's impending labour and birth. Some have been camping out for up to two weeks during a UK heatwave, having bagged the best locations where an heir to the British throne will eventually be shown to the world.
    royal_baby-wait16-19-07-2013.jpg
  • Cockpit controls detail inside a BAE Ststems Hawk of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team.
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  • Cockpit controls detail inside a BAE Ststems Hawk of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team.
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  • Cockpit controls detail inside a BAE Ststems Hawk of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team.
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  • Iconic nosewheel portrait of a Hawk jet of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team.
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  • The Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team, perform their public display over a harbour wall seaside crowd landscape.
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  • Airspeed pitot tube on nose of BAE Systems Hawk of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team.
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  • Exhaust jet pipe at rear of BAE Systems Hawk of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team.
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  • Hawk jets of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team display over beach using quad bikes as display datum (centre).
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  • Engineering ground staff of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team, make repairs between training flights.
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  • A tailor cuts red material for flying suits of of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team. The man is a bespoke tailor at Dale Techniche, Nelson, Lancashire. Every Winter, the Red Arrows place about 40 pilot suit orders and 180 blue (support ground crew) suits. Tricia adjusts her thread while the suit is complete on her work bench. The clothing factory also designs the Red Arrows badges, each requiring 15,000 stitches. All suits are made from Nomex by the Du Pont corporation, containing 5% Kevlar. Flame-retardant, they fit exactly each team member. Fouteen different measurements are taken before the first suit is cut, each one requiring approximately three metres of dyed cloth. When a suit is complete, each one is signed inside by the machinist.
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  • Safety poster in the supplies office of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team.
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  • Engineering ground staff of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team, makes last pre-flight checks before training flight.
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  • Engineering ground staff of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team, makes last pre-flight checks before training flight.
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  • Hawk jets of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team perform training display over the skies above their Lincolnshire home.
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  • Engineering ground staff of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team, await pilots to sign flight manuals before  flight
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  • Local firefighters learn about the Hawk jet belonging to a Hawk jet in the hangar of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team.
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  • Pilot of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team with flight planning duties gazes for a moment out of the window.
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  • Engineer ground staff perform scheduled maintenance to a Hawk jet in the hangar of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team.
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  • Engineering ground staff of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team, perform scheduled maintenance on Hawk equipment.
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  • Ground staff sweeping the near-empty hangar of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team.
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  • Pilots of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team endure a post-flight de-brief in the squadron crew room at RAF Scampton.
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  • Pilots of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team endure a post-flight de-brief in the squadron crew room at RAF Scampton.
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  • Engineering ground staff of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team, during turnarounds of training flights.
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  • Survival Equippers (squippers) of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team, fits a guest's helmet in the supplies office.
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  • Haw jets of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team practice display using Cyprus coast as display datum (centre).
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  • Hawk jets of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team practice their display using an old ship wreck as display datum (centre). The wreck is the MV Achaios. Built in 1932, it was on a voyage from Yugoslavia to Jeddah in 1976 with a cargo of timber. She ran aground in a storm at Akrotiri Peninsula, but no lives were lost.
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  • Engineering ground staff of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team, during turnarounds of training flights.
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  • Engineer working on maintenance duties with equipment of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team.
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  • Squadron Leader Spike Jepson, leader of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team memorises manoeuvres.
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  • Engineering ground staff of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team, rest before next stage of annual trip to Cyprus.
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  • Hawk jet and spares in the hangar of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team.
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  • Closed doors outside the hangar of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team.
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  • Towing bars on the ground in the hangar of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team.
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  • Flight spares ready for shipping to Cyprus in the hangar of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team.
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