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  • Members of the RAF Royal Air Force and British Army stand to attention while rehearsing the ceremonial event to mark the Queens 90th birthday the oldest for any British monarch at St Pauls Cathedral, on 9th June 2016, in London, United Kingdom. In summer sunshine they practice marching into position and ensuring theyre precisely in the correct spacing in preparation for the monarchs celebration here on 10th June, the day after.
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  • Members of the RAF Royal Air Force and British Army stand to attention while rehearsing the ceremonial event to mark the Queens 90th birthday the oldest for any British monarch at St Pauls Cathedral, on 9th June 2016, in London, United Kingdom. In summer sunshine they practice marching into position and ensuring theyre precisely in the correct spacing in preparation for the monarchs celebration here on 10th June, the day after.
    city_people-05-09-06-2016.jpg
  • Members of the RAF Royal Air Force and British Army march under the columns of St Pauls Cathedral to attention, rehearsing the ceremonial event to mark the Queens 90th birthday the oldest for any British monarch at St Pauls Cathedral, on 9th June 2016, in London, United Kingdom. In summer sunshine they practice marching into position and ensuring theyre precisely in the correct spacing in preparation for the monarchs celebration here on 10th June, the day after.
    city_people-03-09-06-2016.jpg
  • According to protocol, members of the Coldstream Guards mark in chalk the route along Whitehall for a future royal funeral, on 5th October, 2017, in London, England.
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  • According to protocol, members of the Coldstream Guards mark in chalk the route along Whitehall for a future royal funeral, on 5th October, 2017, in London, England.
    route_marking-01-05-10-2017.jpg
  • Ganga Thampi, applies make up to her hands shortly before taking the staring role of Sita in the Indian epic Ramayana. She is both a teacher and one of the stars of  the traditional and highly prestigious Kalakshetra school for the arts, Chennai. The school was founded in 1936 and due to its exacting and demanding schedule is considered India's formost classical dance academy of this ancient cultural art heritage that is informally known as "temple dancing" and that dates back to the Natya Shastra, the 2000 year old text that lays down the principles of Indian dramatic theory and performance. Tamil Nadu, India.
    20071125_india_0166_1.jpg
  • Ganga Thampi, applies make up to her face shortly before taking the staring role of Sita in the Indian epic Ramayana. She is both a teacher and one of the stars of  the traditional and highly prestigious Kalakshetra school for the arts, Chennai. The school was founded in 1936 and due to its exacting and demanding schedule is considered India's formost classical dance academy of this ancient cultural art heritage that is informally known as "temple dancing" and that dates back to the Natya Shastra, the 2000 year old text that lays down the principles of Indian dramatic theory and performance. Tamil Nadu, India.
    20071125_india_0100_1.jpg
  • Ganga Thampi, teaches young   dancers  movement, rhythm and expression, known as "nritya" and seen here a lesson in "abhinaya", or stylized expressions at the traditional and highly prestigious Kalakshetra school for the arts, Chennai. The school was founded in 1936 and due to its exacting and demanding schedule is considered India's formost classical dance academy of this ancient cultural art heritage that is informally known as "temple dancing" and that dates back to the Natya Shastra, the 2000 year old text that lays down the principles of Indian dramatic theory and performance. Tamil Nadu, India
    20071120_india_0244_1.jpg
  • Lying in undergrowth, a camouflaged British infantry soldier is seen looking 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.
    sniper_rifle16-06-03-2008 _1_1.jpg
  • Lying on his stomach, a camouflaged British infantry soldier is seen looking 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.
    sniper_rifle08-06-03-2008 _1_1.jpg
  • Seen from another aircraft, the Diamond Nine formation of the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team is seen over freshly-ploughed English fields and hedgerows (the result of the old agricultural ‘enclosure’ system of land division) the nine aircraft fly in a tight formation approximately 8 feet (2.5m) apart from each other. This is an In-Season Practice (ISP) training flight near their base at RAF Scampton. In front of a local crowd at the airfield they practice 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 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_Arrows642_RBA_1.jpg
  • Official publicity portrait for the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team in mid-day glare at RAF Akrotiri. 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.
    Red_Arrows168_RBA.jpg
  • Two Silversmith etch their many years experience into the making of elaborate Silver tableware objects from Buenos Aires' most famous Silversmith family, the Pallarols originally from Catalunya, Spain.
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  • A Silversmith etches his many years experience into the making of a Silver gourde from which to drink "Mate" tea (Yerba Mate) in Buenos Aires' most famous Silversmith family, the Pallarols originally from Catalunya, Spain.
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  • During a performance of the Indian epic the Ramayana Ganga Thampi (center), plays the role of Sita the wronged wife of the exiled King Rama. She is both teacher and one of the stars of  the traditional and highly prestigious Kalakshetra school for the arts, Chennai. The school was founded in 1936 and due to its exacting and demanding schedule is considered India's formost classical dance academy of this ancient cultural art heritage that is informally known as "temple dancing" and that dates back to the Natya Shastra, the 2000 year old text that lays down the principles of Indian dramatic theory and performance. Tamil Nadu, India.
    20071125_india_0307_1.jpg
  • During a performance of the Indian epic the Ramayana Ganga Thampi (center), plays the role of Sita the wronged wife of the exiled King Rama. She is both teacher and one of the stars of  the traditional and highly prestigious Kalakshetra school for the arts, Chennai. The school was founded in 1936 and due to its exacting and demanding schedule is considered India's formost classical dance academy of this ancient cultural art heritage that is informally known as "temple dancing" and that dates back to the Natya Shastra, the 2000 year old text that lays down the principles of Indian dramatic theory and performance. Tamil Nadu, India.
    20071125_india_0284_1.jpg
  • Ganga Thampi, applies make up to her feet shortly before taking the staring role of Sita in the Indian epic Ramayana. She is both a teacher and one of the stars of  the traditional and highly prestigious Kalakshetra school for the arts, Chennai. The school was founded in 1936 and due to its exacting and demanding schedule is considered India's formost classical dance academy of this ancient cultural art heritage that is informally known as "temple dancing" and that dates back to the Natya Shastra, the 2000 year old text that lays down the principles of Indian dramatic theory and performance. Tamil Nadu, India.
    20071125_india_0193_1.jpg
  • Ganga Thampi, applies make up to her face shortly before taking the staring role of Sita in the Indian epic Ramayana. She is both a teacher and one of the stars of  the traditional and highly prestigious Kalakshetra school for the arts, Chennai. The school was founded in 1936 and due to its exacting and demanding schedule is considered India's formost classical dance academy of this ancient cultural art heritage that is informally known as "temple dancing" and that dates back to the Natya Shastra, the 2000 year old text that lays down the principles of Indian dramatic theory and performance. Tamil Nadu, India.
    20071125_india_0146_1.jpg
  • Ganga Thampi, applies make up to her face shortly before taking the staring role of Sita in the Indian epic Ramayana. She is both a teacher and one of the stars of  the traditional and highly prestigious Kalakshetra school for the arts, Chennai. The school was founded in 1936 and due to its exacting and demanding schedule is considered India's formost classical dance academy of this ancient cultural art heritage that is informally known as "temple dancing" and that dates back to the Natya Shastra, the 2000 year old text that lays down the principles of Indian dramatic theory and performance. Tamil Nadu, India.
    20071125_india_0127_1.jpg
  • Ganga Thampi, applies make up to her face shortly before taking the staring role of Sita in the Indian epic Ramayana. She is both a teacher and one of the stars of  the traditional and highly prestigious Kalakshetra school for the arts, Chennai. The school was founded in 1936 and due to its exacting and demanding schedule is considered India's formost classical dance academy of this ancient cultural art heritage that is informally known as "temple dancing" and that dates back to the Natya Shastra, the 2000 year old text that lays down the principles of Indian dramatic theory and performance. Tamil Nadu, India.
    20071125_india_0091_1.jpg
  • Ganga Thampi, teaches young   dancers  movement, rhythm and expression, known as "nritya" and seen here a lesson in "abhinaya", or stylized expressions at the traditional and highly prestigious Kalakshetra school for the arts, Chennai. The school was founded in 1936 and due to its exacting and demanding schedule is considered India's formost classical dance academy of this ancient cultural art heritage that is informally known as "temple dancing" and that dates back to the Natya Shastra, the 2000 year old text that lays down the principles of Indian dramatic theory and performance. Tamil Nadu, India
    20071120_india_0186_1.jpg
  • Ganga Thampi a classical dance performer and teacher in a quiet moment of meditative yoga before a lesson at the highly prestigious Kalakshetra school for the arts, Chennai. The school was founded in 1936 and due to its exacting and demanding schedule is considered India's formost classical dance academy of this ancient cultural art heritage that is informally known as "temple dancing" and that dates back to the Natya Shastra, the 2000 year old text that lays down the principles of Indian dramatic theory and performance. Tamil Nadu, India.
    20071120_india_0170_1.jpg
  • Young indian dancers  practice and train in the traditional and highly prestigious Kalakshetra school for the arts, Chennai. The school was founded in 1936 and due to its exacting and demanding schedule is considered India's formost classical dance academy of this ancient cultural art heritage that is informally known as "temple dancing" and that dates back to the Natya Shastra, the 2000 year old text that lays down the principles of Indian dramatic theory and performance. Tamil Nadu, India.
    20071120_india_0132_1.jpg
  • Young indian dancers  practice and train in the traditional and highly prestigious Kalakshetra school for the arts, Chennai. The school was founded in 1936 and due to its exacting and demanding schedule is considered India's formost classical dance academy of this ancient cultural art heritage that is informally known as "temple dancing" and that dates back to the Natya Shastra, the 2000 year old text that lays down the principles of Indian dramatic theory and performance. Tamil Nadu, India.
    20071120_india_0108_1.jpg
  • Ganga Thampi, teaches young  trainee dancers  movement, rhythm and expression, known as "nritya" and seen here a lesson in "abhinaya", or stylized expressions at the traditional and highly prestigious Kalakshetra school for the arts, Chennai. The school was founded in 1936 and due to its exacting and demanding schedule is considered India's formost classical dance academy of this ancient cultural art heritage that is informally known as "temple dancing" and that dates back to the Natya Shastra, the 2000 year old text that lays down the principles of Indian dramatic theory and performance. Tamil Nadu, India.
    20071119_india_0368_1.jpg
  • Ganga Thampi, teaches young  trainee dancers  movement, rhythm and expression, known as "nritya" and seen here a lesson in "abhinaya", or stylized expressions at the traditional and highly prestigious Kalakshetra school for the arts, Chennai. The school was founded in 1936 and due to its exacting and demanding schedule is considered India's formost classical dance academy of this ancient cultural art heritage that is informally known as "temple dancing" and that dates back to the Natya Shastra, the 2000 year old text that lays down the principles of Indian dramatic theory and performance. Tamil Nadu, India.
    20071119_india_0334_1.jpg
  • Ganga Thampi, teaches young  trainee dancers  movement, rhythm and expression, known as "nritya" and seen here a lesson in "abhinaya", or stylized expressions at the traditional and highly prestigious Kalakshetra school for the arts, Chennai. The school was founded in 1936 and due to its exacting and demanding schedule is considered India's formost classical dance academy of this ancient cultural art heritage that is informally known as "temple dancing" and that dates back to the Natya Shastra, the 2000 year old text that lays down the principles of Indian dramatic theory and performance. Tamil Nadu, India.
    20071119_india_0292_1.jpg
  • Students and teachers have lunch and rest after an intense morning's  session of dance practice and routines  at the traditional and highly prestigious Kalakshetra school for the arts, Chennai. The school was founded in 1936 and due to its exacting and demanding schedule is considered India's formost classical dance academy of this ancient cultural art heritage that is informally known as "temple dancing" and that dates back to the Natya Shastra, the 2000 year old text that lays down the principles of Indian dramatic theory and performance. Tamil Nadu, India.
    20071119_india_0239_1.jpg
  • Young indian trainee dancers  practice and train in the traditional and highly prestigious Kalakshetra school for the arts, Chennai. The school was founded in 1936 and due to its exacting and demanding schedule is considered India's formost classical dance academy of this ancient cultural art heritage that is informally known as "temple dancing" and that dates back to the Natya Shastra, the 2000 year old text that lays down the principles of Indian dramatic theory and performance. Tamil Nadu, India.
    20071119_india_0169_1.jpg
  • Ganga Thampi, teaches young  trainee dancers  movement, rhythm and expression, known as "nritya" as well as focusing on the gesture of the hands known as "katakamukh" at the traditional and highly prestigious Kalakshetra school for the arts, Chennai. The school was founded in 1936 and due to its exacting and demanding schedule is considered India's formost classical dance academy of this ancient cultural art heritage that is informally known as "temple dancing" and that dates back to the Natya Shastra, the 2000 year old text that lays down the principles of Indian dramatic theory and performance. Tamil Nadu, India.
    20071119_india_0112_1.jpg
  • A teacher adjusts a student's hand in the "mudra" (gesture) called "katakamukh" as well as teaching a  young dancer  movement, rhythm and expression, known as "nritya" at the traditional and highly prestigious Kalakshetra school for the arts, Chennai. The school was founded in 1936 and due to its exacting and demanding schedule is considered India's formost classical dance academy of this ancient cultural art heritage that is informally known as "temple dancing" and that dates back to the Natya Shastra, the 2000 year old text that lays down the principles of Indian dramatic theory and performance. Tamil Nadu, India.
    20071119_india_0090_1.jpg
  • Ganga Thampi, teaches young  trainee dancers  movement, rhythm and expression, known as nritya at the traditional and highly prestigious Kalakshetra school for the arts, Chennai. The school was founded in 1936 and due to its exacting and demanding schedule is considered India's formost classical dance academy of this ancient cultural art heritage that is informally known as "temple dancing" and that dates back to the Natya Shastra, the 2000 year old text that lays down the principles of Indian dramatic theory and performance. Tamil Nadu, India.
    20071119_india_0071_1.jpg
  • Young indian trainee dancers  practice and train in the traditional and highly prestigious Kalakshetra school for the arts, Chennai. The school was founded in 1936 and due to its exacting and demanding schedule is considered India's formost classical dance academy of this ancient cultural art heritage that is informally known as "temple dancing" and that dates back to the Natya Shastra, the 2000 year old text that lays down the principles of Indian dramatic theory and performance. Tamil Nadu, India.
    20071119_india_0035_1.jpg
  • Kneeling in undergrowth, a camouflaged British infantry soldier is seen looking 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.
    sniper_rifle22-06-03-2008 _1_1.jpg
  • 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.
    sniper_rifle14-06-03-2008 _1_1.jpg
  • Lying in undergrowth, a camouflaged British infantry soldier is seen looking 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.
    sniper_rifle12-06-03-2008 _1_1.jpg
  • A camouflaged British infantry soldier is seen 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.
    sniper_rifle11-06-03-2008 _1_1.jpg
  • Lying in undergrowth with a photographer shooting pictures, a camouflaged British infantry soldier is seen looking 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.
    sniper_rifle03-06-03-2008 _1_1_1.jpg
  • Lying in undergrowth, a camouflaged British infantry soldier is seen looking 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.
    sniper_rifle02-06-03-2008 _1_1_1.jpg
  • A detail of a Hawk aircraft’s fuselage and canopy opening of the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team. Two blue arrows point towards each other to show that the aircraft’s canopy is securely closed and ready for flight. Painted the Squadron’s famous red, we can also see the rivets which can be turned by specially-designed screwdrivers that help gain access to internal technology. The Red Arrows Hawks power the team throughout their calendar of appearances at air shows and fly-pasts across the UK and a few European venues. Since 1965 the squadron have flown over 4,000 shows in 52 countries and are an important part of Britain's summer events where aerobatics aircraft perform their manoeuvres in front of massed crowds.
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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). Passing overhead, there are two beach guards sitting just 100 feet below the passing jets who perform in front of an unseen crowd behind the sands. The team are using this coastal reference point as display datum (centre) during their display, a show-stopping manoeuvre of their 25-minute air show display routine. 'Datum' is an axis on which the Red Arrows focus their displays, from where the whole show is visible at the crowd's centre. The bikes are but one of a series of datum points selected by the team leader as a geographical point from which to navigate. Since 1965 the squadron has flown over 4,000 shows in 52 countries an important part of Britain's summer events where they perform their manoeuvres in front of massed crowds.
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  • The Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team, perform their public display over a lake and boating landscape. A family stay still below the elite team as they perform their display on one of the UK's most beautiful locations in norhern England. The team are using the lake as a reference point as display datum (centre) during their display, a show-stopping manoeuvre of their 25-minute air show display routine. 'Datum' is an axis on which the Red Arrows focus their displays, from where the whole show is visible at the crowd's centre. The lake is but one of a series of datum points selected by the team leader as a geographical point from which to navigate. Since 1965 the squadron have flown over 4,000 shows in 52 countries and are an important part of Britain's summer events where aerobatics aircraft perform their manoeuvres in front of massed crowds.
    Red_Arrows532_RBA.jpg
  • The Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team, perform their public display over a landscape of darkening skies and danger sign. Beachcombers walk along the beach as the jet aircraft fly their display overhead on a rather dull summer day on the English Channel near Bristol. Since 1965 the squadron have flown over 4,000 shows in 52 countries and are an important part of Britain's summer events where aerobatics aircraft perform their manoeuvres in front of massed crowds.
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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. Overhead they fly near an old MoD landing light at the end of the airfield runway at RAF Scampton. This is an In-Season Practice (ISP) training flight near their base at RAF Scampton. In front of a local crowd at the airfield they practice 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 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_Arrows422_RBA.jpg
  • Hawk jets of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team perform training display over the skies above their Lincolnshire home. Their winter training flight takes them over Brattleby Hill just outside the perimeter fence of their base at RAR Scampton. But ironically, the word Slow has been stencilled on this quiet road though the Hawk jets fly up to 500mph. During their training period, they fly up to 6 times daily, when weather permits, learning new manoeuvres.
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  • A group portrait is taken by local media of the 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team. With the photographer on some high steps, accompanied by the team’s PR manager, the nine pilots stand in their famous stance with their leader, Squadron Leader Spike Jepson in the very centre and a Hawk jet aircraft in the background. To the right are members of the Blues, the squadron’s ground support crew who out number the pilots (the Reds) by 8 to 1. The team are at RAF Kemble during one event during a busy calendar of appearances at air shows and fly-pasts across the UK and a few European venues. Since 1965 the squadron have flown over 4,000 shows in 52 countries and are an important part of Britain's summer events where aerobatics aircraft perform their manoeuvres in front of massed crowds.
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  • During the annual Southend Air show on the Thames river estuary, two jets of the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team, perform their Corkscrew manoeuvre, a fly-past 100 feet (30m) off the ground. Children playing on the low-tide mud pause from digging holes with a bucket and spade as the aircraft make their way over boating and mudflats. The Red Arrows Hawks perform throughout their calendar of appearances at air shows and fly-pasts across the UK and a few European venues. Since 1965 the squadron have flown over 4,000 shows in 52 countries and are an important part of Britain's summer events where aerobatics aircraft perform their manoeuvres in front of massed crowds.
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  • The Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team, perform their public display over a landscape of the Thames estuary mud.<br />
During the annual Southend Air show on the Thames river estuary, the jets of the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team, perform their Corkscrew manoeuvre, a fly-past 100 feet (30m) off the ground. Children playing on the low-tide mud pause from digging holes with a bucket and spade as the aircraft make their way over boating and mudflats. The Red Arrows Hawks perform throughout their calendar of appearances at air shows and fly-pasts across the UK and a few European venues. Since 1965 the squadron have flown over 4,000 shows in 52 countries and are an important part of Britain's summer events where aerobatics aircraft perform their manoeuvres in front of massed crowds.
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  • RAF fundraisers watch the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team during a private display high above RAF Akrotiri. Spectators at 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. Since 1965 the squadron have flown over 4,000 shows in 52 countries and are an important part of Britain's summer events where aerobatics aircraft perform their manoeuvres in front of massed crowds.
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  • Hawk jets of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team practice display using an old ship wreck as display datum (centre). Looking out to the Mediterranean Sea from the Akrotiri Peninsular, Cyprus, we see the elite team, practising their display, a show-stopping manoeuvre of their 25-minute air show display routine. A rusted and crumbling hulk of a ship lies in the shallow surf and the Hawk jets used by the Red Arrows fan out above it using red, white and blue smoke. The shipwreck's remains provide a sad foreground to the dynamic flying beyond making a graphic landscape. 'Datum' is an axis on which the Red Arrows focus their displays, from where the whole show is visible at the crowd's centre. 'The Wreck' is but one of a series of datum points selected by the team leader at short notice to simulate diverse geographical features and wind directions
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  • Hawk jets of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team practice display using an old ship wreck as display datum (centre). Looking out to the Mediterranean Sea from the Akrotiri Peninsular, Cyprus, we see the elite team, practising their display, a show-stopping manoeuvre of their 25-minute air show display routine. A rusted and crumbling hulk of a ship lies in the shallow surf and the Hawk jets used by the Red Arrows fan out above it using red, white and blue smoke. The shipwreck's remains provide a sad foreground to the dynamic flying beyond making a graphic landscape. 'Datum' is an axis on which the Red Arrows focus their displays, from where the whole show is visible at the crowd's centre. 'The Wreck' is but one of a series of datum points selected by the team leader at short notice to simulate diverse geographical features and wind directions
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  • A detail of a Grenadier Guardsmans chinstrap during a ceremonial parade for Queen Elizabeths Golden Jubilee celebrations, on 3rd June 2002, in London, England.
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  • Empty seats in a vacant meeting or conference room awaiting a future event for attendees and speakers, on 5th March 2017, at the Barbican in the City of London, England.
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  • The grand finale of a performance of the Indian epic the Ramayana Ganga Thampi (center), plays the role of Sita the wronged wife of the exiled King Rama. She is both teacher and one of the stars of  the traditional and highly prestigious Kalakshetra school for the arts, Chennai. The school was founded in 1936 and due to its exacting and demanding schedule is considered India's formost classical dance academy of this ancient cultural art heritage that is informally known as "temple dancing" and that dates back to the Natya Shastra, the 2000 year old text that lays down the principles of Indian dramatic theory and performance. Tamil Nadu, India.
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  • Ganga Thampi, applies make up to her face shortly before taking the staring role of Sita in the Indian epic Ramayana. She is both a teacher and one of the stars of  the traditional and highly prestigious Kalakshetra school for the arts, Chennai. The school was founded in 1936 and due to its exacting and demanding schedule is considered India's formost classical dance academy of this ancient cultural art heritage that is informally known as "temple dancing" and that dates back to the Natya Shastra, the 2000 year old text that lays down the principles of Indian dramatic theory and performance. Tamil Nadu, India.
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  • Ganga Thampi, applies make up to her face shortly before taking the staring role of Sita in the Indian epic Ramayana. She is both a teacher and one of the stars of  the traditional and highly prestigious Kalakshetra school for the arts, Chennai. The school was founded in 1936 and due to its exacting and demanding schedule is considered India's formost classical dance academy of this ancient cultural art heritage that is informally known as "temple dancing" and that dates back to the Natya Shastra, the 2000 year old text that lays down the principles of Indian dramatic theory and performance. Tamil Nadu, India.
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  • Ganga Thampi, applies make up to her face shortly before taking the staring role of Sita in the Indian epic Ramayana. She is both a teacher and one of the stars of  the traditional and highly prestigious Kalakshetra school for the arts, Chennai. The school was founded in 1936 and due to its exacting and demanding schedule is considered India's formost classical dance academy of this ancient cultural art heritage that is informally known as "temple dancing" and that dates back to the Natya Shastra, the 2000 year old text that lays down the principles of Indian dramatic theory and performance. Tamil Nadu, India.
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  • Ganga Thampi, teaches young  trainee dancers  movement, rhythm and expression, known as "nritya" and seen here a lesson in "abhinaya", or stylized expressions at the traditional and highly prestigious Kalakshetra school for the arts, Chennai. The school was founded in 1936 and due to its exacting and demanding schedule is considered India's formost classical dance academy of this ancient cultural art heritage that is informally known as "temple dancing" and that dates back to the Natya Shastra, the 2000 year old text that lays down the principles of Indian dramatic theory and performance. Tamil Nadu, India.
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  • Ganga Thampi, teaches young  trainee dancers  movement, rhythm and expression, known as "nritya" and seen here a lesson in "abhinaya", or stylized expressions at the traditional and highly prestigious Kalakshetra school for the arts, Chennai. The school was founded in 1936 and due to its exacting and demanding schedule is considered India's formost classical dance academy of this ancient cultural art heritage that is informally known as "temple dancing" and that dates back to the Natya Shastra, the 2000 year old text that lays down the principles of Indian dramatic theory and performance. Tamil Nadu, India.
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  • Ganga Thampi, teaches young  trainee dancers  movement, rhythm and expression, known as "nritya" and seen here a lesson in "abhinaya", or stylized expressions at the traditional and highly prestigious Kalakshetra school for the arts, Chennai. The school was founded in 1936 and due to its exacting and demanding schedule is considered India's formost classical dance academy of this ancient cultural art heritage that is informally known as "temple dancing" and that dates back to the Natya Shastra, the 2000 year old text that lays down the principles of Indian dramatic theory and performance. Tamil Nadu, India.
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  • Ganga Thampi, teaches young  trainee dancers  movement, rhythm and expression, known as nritya at the traditional and highly prestigious Kalakshetra school for the arts, Chennai. The school was founded in 1936 and due to its exacting and demanding schedule is considered India's formost classical dance academy of this ancient cultural art heritage that is informally known as "temple dancing" and that dates back to the Natya Shastra, the 2000 year old text that lays down the principles of Indian dramatic theory and performance. Tamil Nadu, India.
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  • Looking down a firing range towards numbered targets, seen 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.
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  • A collection of domestic tools stored on the wall of a small farmstead garage. Nailed into a home-made board attached to the wall of this shed, the tools have their own specialplace, marked by drawn shapes of each item allowing easy replacement after use. Hammers, chisels, screw drivers, hacksaws, alan keys and spanners all their own location giving the idea of a well-organised workshop.
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  • 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 aircraft before 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.
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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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  • From the rear seat of a 'Red Arrows' Hawk of Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team during an In-Season Practice (ISP) training flight near their base at RAF Scampton. Through the explosive Plexiglass canopy, we look towards the Lincolnshire countryside from an altitude of a few thousand feet. This is the view from the leader’s jet during an In-Season Practice (ISP) training flight. Waiting for the other eight members of the team to re-form as an airborne squadron, they fly 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 aerobatic and piloting skills before re-joining the air show circuit. Since 1965 they've flown over 4,000 shows in 52 countries.
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  • Hawk jets of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team practice display using an old ship wreck as display datum (centre). Looking out to the Mediterranean Sea from the Akrotiri Peninsular, Cyprus, we see the elite team, practising their display, a show-stopping manoeuvre of their 25-minute air show display routine. A rusted and crumbling hulk of a ship lies in the shallow surf and the Hawk jets used by the Red Arrows fan out above it using red, white and blue smoke. The shipwreck's remains provide a sad foreground to the dynamic flying beyond making a graphic landscape. 'Datum' is an axis on which the Red Arrows focus their displays, from where the whole show is visible at the crowd's centre. 'The Wreck' is but one of a series of datum points selected by the team leader at short notice to simulate diverse geographical features and wind directions
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  • Hawk jets of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team practice display using an old ship wreck as display datum (centre). Looking out to the Mediterranean Sea from the Akrotiri Peninsular, Cyprus, we see the elite team, practising their display, a show-stopping manoeuvre of their 25-minute air show display routine. A rusted and crumbling hulk of a ship lies in the shallow surf and the Hawk jets used by the Red Arrows fan out above it using red, white and blue smoke. The shipwreck's remains provide a sad foreground to the dynamic flying beyond making a graphic landscape. 'Datum' is an axis on which the Red Arrows focus their displays, from where the whole show is visible at the crowd's centre. 'The Wreck' is but one of a series of datum points selected by the team leader at short notice to simulate diverse geographical features and wind directions
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  • Hawk jets of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team practice display using an old ship wreck as display datum (centre). Looking out to the Mediterranean Sea from the Akrotiri Peninsular, Cyprus, we see the elite team, practising their display, a show-stopping manoeuvre of their 25-minute air show display routine. A rusted and crumbling hulk of a ship lies in the shallow surf and the Hawk jets used by the Red Arrows fan out above it using red, white and blue smoke. The shipwreck's remains provide a sad foreground to the dynamic flying beyond making a graphic landscape. 'Datum' is an axis on which the Red Arrows focus their displays, from where the whole show is visible at the crowd's centre. 'The Wreck' is but one of a series of datum points selected by the team leader at short notice to simulate diverse geographical features and wind directions
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  • Corporal Karen McNally is a flight planning administrator in the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team. Reaching up across the information board, this RAF lady is responsible for maintaining this vital part of the team's logistical plans that are outlined on this busy calendar of their movements and appearances at a seasonal series of air shows and fly-pasts across the UK and a few European venues. Since 1965 the squadron have flown over 4,000 shows in 52 countries and are an important part of Britain's summer events where aerobatics aircraft perform their manoeuvres in front of massed crowds. Corporal McNally is a part of the team called the Blues, the team's ground support personnel that outnumber the pilots (the Reds) by 8 to 1.
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  • Hawk jets of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team practice display over a pilot officer who sits in his cool car on the cliff edge at RAF Akrotiri, a British-run RAF air base in southern Cyprus, using this coastal cliff as display datum (centre). Looking out to the Mediterranean Sea from the Akrotiri Peninsular, Cyprus, we see the elite team, practising their display, a show-stopping manoeuvre of their 25-minute air show display routine. 'Datum' is an axis on which the Red Arrows focus their displays, from where the whole show is visible at the crowd's centre. The cliffs are but one of a series of datum points selected by the team leader at short notice to simulate diverse geographical features and wind directions
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  • Ganga Thampi, teaches young   dancers  movement, rhythm and expression, known as "nritya" and seen here a lesson in "abhinaya", or stylized expressions at the traditional and highly prestigious Kalakshetra school for the arts, Chennai. The school was founded in 1936 and due to its exacting and demanding schedule is considered India's formost classical dance academy of this ancient cultural art heritage that is informally known as "temple dancing" and that dates back to the Natya Shastra, the 2000 year old text that lays down the principles of Indian dramatic theory and performance. Tamil Nadu, India
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  • During the annual Southend Air show on the Thames river estuary, two jets called the Synchro Pair of the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team, perform their most dynamic manoeuvres, a high-speed  crossover called the ‘Cubans to Opposition Barrel Roll’ 100 feet (30m) off the ground at a combined closing speed of 700 knots airspeed. Spectators gather on a coastal groyne for a better view on the low-tide mud. The Red Arrows Hawks perform throughout their calendar of appearances at air shows and fly-pasts across the UK and a few European venues. Since 1965 the squadron have flown over 4,000 shows in 52 countries and are an important part of Britain's summer events where aerobatics aircraft perform their manoeuvres in front of massed crowds.
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  • Single pilot of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team walks out to his Hawk aircraft before a display flight to Jordan. In the mid-day heat, Flt. Lt. Jez Griggs 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 Griggs carrying his flight bag and life-vest. 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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  • A flying helmet belonging to a member of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, is cradled in the highly-polished open Plexiglass  canopy of a team Hawk jet aircraft. With the arrow pointing downwards we see it from below along with the airplane's red fuselage and the words Royal Air Force stencilled in blue lettering on the side within a white stripe. There are strong angles with clear blue space on the top right. The colours that dominate this image are red, white and blue - the colors of the Union Jack, United Kingdom's flag. This scene is at RAF Akrotiri, Cypus where the Red Arrows put the finishing touches to their display sequences before starting the gruelling air show calendar in the UK and Europe. The squadron represents all that is perfect with aerobatic flying, about teamwork and discipline.
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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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  • Missile systems for the BAE Systems Typhoon at the Farnborough Airshow, on 16th July 2018, in Farnborough, England.
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  • 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.
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  • BAE Systems Typhoon jet fighter, exhibited with missile and smart bomb systems, at the Farnborough Air Show, England. Brimstone, ASRAAM AND IRIS-T missile systems are seen in detail shown on the ground: Brimstone is an air-launched ground attack missile developed by MBDA. as is ASRAAM (Advanced Short Range Air-to-Air Missile) which is an imaging infrared homing ("heat seeking") air-to-air missile. The IRIS-T (Infra Red Imaging System Tail/Thrust Vector-Controlled) is a German-led program to develop a short-range air-to-air missile to replace the venerable AIM-9 Sidewinder found in some of the NATO member countries.
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  • A 40th anniversary celebration cake has been baked for the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team who are soon to appear. Displayed in a hospitality tent at the Kemble Air Show, the iced gateau has a red ribbon and an image of nine aircraft in mid-flight. A bouquet of flowers and assorted cutlery for the forthcoming lunch is alongside. Blue paper is draped over the top adding to the patriotic red, white and blue colours. After several identities, the Red Arrows started life near this location in 1964 at RAF Little Rissington in Gloucestershire. Their name originates from the French 'Fleches Noirs', or Black Arrows, so in England, a new team was established flying black Hawker Hunters in the colour of their Squadron 111. As the Red Arrows display team, they have since flown over 4,000 shows in 52 countries.
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  • Flight Lieutenants Steve Underwood and Anthony Parkinson and Wing Commander Bill Ramsey of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, discuss logistics beneath the emblems of long-disbanded fighter squadrons which decorate the squadron building at RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus. They sit in faded pink armchairs supplied by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) that are seen in many RAF stations and airfields with the same drab blue paint on the walls. Painted by hand are circular badges  with bold colours (colors) and illustrations of birds of prey, fighter-jets, swords and shields which all symbolise  warfare. The three pilots are relaxed wearing their red flying suits with their sunglasses dangling in the regulation loop, they are holding a bottle of mineral water and a coffee cup.
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  • 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.
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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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  • 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.
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  • Senior Machinist Supervisor, Tricia Randle finishes a red flying suit of Squadron Leader David Thomas, a pilot of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team. Tricia is a bespoke seamstress 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. Fourteen 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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  • Chief Technician Kerry Griffiths is a with the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team, the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team. In camouflaged military green jacket, large forearms and rolled-up sleeves, he oversees the loading of spares and personal effects into a C-130 Hercules aircraft before the two-day journey from RAF Scampton to RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus. Surrounded by heavy-duty flight-spares, survival equipment boxes and a tyre for a Hawk jet aircraft, the Hercules looms large in the overcast sky. The team complete their winter training schedule in Cyprus. The Red Arrows pilots fly their own jet aircraft to air shows but when requiring the support of ground crew  they borrow a transporter to fly behind the main airborne squadron. 10 tons of spares and personal effects are shipped for a six-week stay.
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  • Corporal Chris Ward, one of the photographers belonging to the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, reads a novel while wrapped up in sleeping bag and hammock aboard a C-130 Hercules transport aircraft during a two-day journey from RAF Scampton to RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus. Corporal Ward has established for himself a comfortable nest in the rear section at the loading ramp. The interior is basic with sharp corners but the walls are padded.  Ward wears a heavy camouflaged coat to counteract the cold and ear-plugs from the droning engines. The Red Arrows pilots fly their Hawk jet aircraft to air shows but on long journeys requiring the support of ground crew borrow RAF transporters that fly behind the main airborne squadron shipping 10 tons of spares and personal effects for their six-week winter training stay.
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  • 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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  • Corporal Andrew Haynes and Senior Aircraftman Michael Owen load boxes packed with the possessions and kit belonging to the elite 'Red Arrows' pilots, Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, before travelling for winter training at Akrotiri in Cyprus. In the team's hangar at RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire, the two Suppliers lift the reinforced cardboard 'tri-pack' struggling to lift the weight from the ground. Corporal Haynes lifts with the correct technique: knees bent, straight back. The man on the right, has a bent back risking spinal injury. Some 80-plus members of the team will spend six weeks away from home. 23 tons of spares and personal effects travel ahead by ship with another 10 tons travelling on-board a C-130 transport aircraft. The Suppliers ensure possessions and spares are stored taking many weeks of meticulous planning.
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  • A red Hawk jet aircraft belonging to the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, is parked outside a nearby hangar on the concrete 'apron' (where aircraft park) at the squadron's headquarters at RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire. A member of the team's support ground crew (the Blues because of their distinctive blue overalls worn at summer air shows) prepare to refuel as the last daylight fades and artificial light from the hangar illuminates the scene. Their winter training schedule is both rigorous on the aircraft and demanding on the pilots who will typically fly up to six times a day in preparation of the forthcoming summer when they display at 90-plus air shows. After the day's flying, the engineers' night shift arrive to service and maintain the aging fleet of 11 aircraft.
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  • At the start of another day's work, pilots belonging to the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, walk in single-file out into the pink morning light for the first winter training flight of the day at RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire. Emerging from their squadron building the aviators make their way along a pathway towards the waiting Hawk jet aircraft known the world over. Wearing winter green flying suits and carrying their helmets, their day is spent flying and de-briefing up to six times a day when weather permits. Long shadows spill over on to the airfield's cropped grass. Scampton  is one of the original World War 2 RAF stations for the Lancaster bombers the 617 Dambusters squadron who attacked the damns of the German Ruhr valley on 16th May 1943 using the Bouncing Bomb. Today, it is used almost exclusively by the team.
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  • A red Hawk jet aircraft belonging to the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, is parked in the hangar at RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire, the home base for the squadron. Night is falling with only blue daylight remaining in the western sky and the warm light from the hangar spills out of the giant open doors on to the concrete. The aircraft awaits attention from the engineer's night-shift who service and maintain all 11 of the famous red aerobatic jets before flying the next morning. The hangar, an original World War 2 shelter for the Lancaster bombers of 617 Dambusters squadron who attacked the damns of the German Ruhr valley on 16th May 1943 using the Bouncing Bomb. The Red Arrows use this and nearby offices administrative nerve-centre for the 90-plus displays they perform a year.
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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 precautions 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 rain clouds in the gloomy Lincolnshire sky.
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  • Behind railings that honoured American aviator Wilbur Wright at the annual Le Mans air show, France, seven spectators gaze upwards to a clear sky where a lone but unseen aircraft performs in front of the French crowd. Wright made 110 flights at Le Mans and nearby Auvours in 1908 and his legacy for French and global aerospace lives on at events like this where a replica of his Wright Flyer was also exhibited. It is a bright summer's day and the blue sky has vapour trails left by a previous display pilot's jet engine. A prominent British Union Jack flutters on a pole and the words 'invites' (for invited guests only) are printed on to sheets of paper. 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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  • A lone Tornado jet fighter arcs across a typically overcast sky at Southend-on-Sea on a Bank Holiday Sunday. Well-defined figures of children and adults either play nonchalantly on the beach at low tide, or watch in awe as the aircraft thunders over the Thames Estuary mud. A few stranded yachts stand upright in the low water and a groyne stretches out to sea towards the Kent coast, seen in the distance. It is a bleak and depressingly empty scene and the jet is merely a dot in the grey English sky, traditionally familiar summer weather. 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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  • Spectators watch an air show at North Weald in Cambridgeshire, England. A man films a lone aircraft that banks across the summer sky. The enthusiast's blue denim jacket is almost fully-covered with aeronautical badges which depict various foreign military aerobatic teams, including the Swiss, Norwegian and German squadrons, whose emblems have been stitched into the fabric. Plane spotters form hardcore groups of aviation pilgrims. Logging and photographing flying machines, they follow air displays across their own countries and the calendars of other European festivals that attract hundreds of thousands. 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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  • Some of the nine Hawk jet aircraft of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, perform the 5/4 Split high 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.
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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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  • Missile systems for the BAE Systems Typhoon at the Farnborough Airshow, on 16th July 2018, in Farnborough, England.
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