England - Lincolnshire - Red Arrows technician readies cockpit for flight

A line engineer technician, prepares a Mk 1 Hawk jet of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team at RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire. Sitting in a Martin-Baker ejection seat, the workplace of a highly-trained RAF pilot, the man fixes an item on to the instrument panel before another arduous flight at the team's base in Lincolnshire, England. The man is a member of the team's support ground crew (called the Blues because of their distinctive blue overalls worn at summer air shows). The team's support ground crew who outnumber the pilots 8:1 and without them, the Red Arrows couldn't fly. Eleven trades are imported from some sixty that the RAF employs and teaches.

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A line engineer technician, prepares a Mk 1 Hawk jet of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team at RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire. Sitting in a Martin-Baker ejection seat, the workplace of a highly-trained RAF pilot, the man fixes an item on to the instrument panel before another arduous flight at the team's base in Lincolnshire, England. The man is a member of the team's support ground crew (called the Blues because of their distinctive blue overalls worn at summer air shows). The team's support ground crew who outnumber the pilots 8:1 and without them, the Red Arrows couldn't fly. Eleven trades are imported from some sixty that the RAF employs and teaches.