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The Red Arrows arrived at about the same time I did.
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A Eurofighter Typhoon on the taxiway.
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SE-5a Biplane
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A rather patriotic Tucano T1
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The Tucano looping the loop.
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A Sea Fury - one of the most powerful piston-engine aircraft ever built.
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The Blades display team in their Extra EA-300s
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The Blades are mostly ex-Red Arrows and it shows.
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Falling back down through your own smoke is kind of adventurous.
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Corkscrew?
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Perfectly synchronised.
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A rather bizarre formation.
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Vertical climb.
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The solo display Typhoon accelerates on reheat.
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I spiral of vapour comess off the tail fin.
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A cheery wave from the pilot.
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The Gloster Meteor - the RAFs first jet aircraft.
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The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Spitfire
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The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Hurricane
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The Red Arrows - in a formation to remember the colleagues they lost this year.
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The smoke doesn't hang around long in the wind.
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...
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A heart in the sky!
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The Synchro Pair.
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I'm a big fan of the Red Arrows. Big fan. Get it?
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One final pass...
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...then the battle break as they split up for landing.
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The Chinook makea a rather wonderful noise as it takes off.
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A giant Sentry AWACS takes off.
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A Tornado GR4 arrives at speed for the "role demonstration"
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1,000,000 flying hours - I guess the Tornado has been around a while!
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A Tornado and the smoke from its rockets (or at least the charges on the ground that simulated them)
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Tornado GR4.
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Another explosion...
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The Vulcan Bomber.
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Graceful. Beautiful. Terrible.
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Flying over the dissipating smoke from the Tornado display.
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Empty bomb-bay.
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Configured for landing - although she didn't actually land at Leuchars, instead coming direct from Robin Hood Airport and returning there.
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Such a striking shape.
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This is by a clear mile my favourite aircraft. Spectacular.
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The Chinook showing off.
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I'm just impressed that the rotors never clash!
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Chinook landing.
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An American B53 Stratofortress gives us a fly-past.
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Sentry AWACS again - not much in the way of aerobatics from a plane this size!
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Vietnam veteran: Huey
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Vietnam veteran: Loach
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A pair of Typhoons takes off.
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Typhoon heading off at speed.
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Vampires.
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B52 Engine.
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KC135 Refuelling Boom.
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Typhoon landing.
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Red Arrows departing.
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The Sunset Ceremony featured a flypast by 9 Typhoons in a Diamond formation to celebrate the Jubilee. Spectacular, and spectacularly noisy...
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Disappearing into the sunset.
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