The Festival of Flight at Newcastle is always a great day out and this year was no exception. The main attractions were the Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team, The Red Arrows and a Vulcan Bomber from the cold war era.
The Red Arrows are ever popular and always get an enthusiastic reception. Their display was full on for nearly 30 minutes and at times the planes are flying in formation with only about 6 feet between them. To describe them as impressive doesn’t do them justice. The pilots talking with each other is played over the speakers so the crowd can hear them but I don’t know if it’s a two way thing and the pilots can hear the crowd cheering and clapping.
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The drive home was in sharp contrast to 700 MPH Eurofighters. I’ve heard there were around 125,000 people at the show and it seemed like they all left at once in front of me – I probably averaged around 7 MPH for the first few miles.
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