UK - Northumberland - Air show public address system

An old fashioned pair of public address speakers have been attached to a scaffolding pole overlooking the Northumberland countryside at the Kielder Air Show. Here, the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team are to perform and the squadron's commentator - known as Red 10 - will be describing the 25-minute routine performed in front of a few hundred people, probably the smallest of the Red Arrows audiences. The Hawk aircraft will be flying over the borderland between England and Scotland during this display which has attracted a local crowd to this pretty landscape. This primitive method of amplification makes for it charmingly quirky. We see a low-tech and makeshift apparatus, vastly different to other shows where digital sound quality reproduces audio to many of thousands of spectators.

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An old fashioned pair of public address speakers have been attached to a scaffolding pole overlooking the Northumberland countryside at the Kielder Air Show. Here, the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team are to perform and the squadron's commentator - known as Red 10 - will be describing the 25-minute routine performed in front of a few hundred people, probably the smallest of the Red Arrows audiences. The Hawk aircraft will be flying over the borderland between England and Scotland during this display which has attracted a local crowd to this pretty landscape. This primitive method of amplification makes for it charmingly quirky. We see a low-tech and makeshift apparatus, vastly different to other shows where digital sound quality reproduces audio to many of thousands of spectators.