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  • A detailed view of a Mark 1 Hawk jet belonging to 'Synchro Leader' of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team. We see the flight controls and instrument panels looking grubby and worn with grey paint rubbed or flaking off. This version of the BAE Systems Hawk is low-tech without computers nor fly-by-wire technology it is one of the most user-friendly modern jets to fly and serves as a first step trainer for pilots to accumulate fast-jet flying hours and who are destined for the most sophisticated of fast military fighters in the future. Their aerobatic displays demands that their workhorse machine must have phenomenal turning circle ability and rate of climb. The team's aircraft are in some cases over 25 years old and their airframes require constant attention, with frequent engineering overhauls needed..
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  • A detailed view of a Mark 1 Hawk jet belonging to 'Synchro Leader' of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team. We see the flight controls and instrument panels looking grubby and worn with grey paint rubbed or flaking off. This version of the BAE Systems Hawk is low-tech without computers nor fly-by-wire technology it is one of the most user-friendly modern jets to fly and serves as a first step trainer for pilots to accumulate fast-jet flying hours and who are destined for the most sophisticated of fast military fighters in the future. Their aerobatic displays demands that their workhorse machine must have phenomenal turning circle ability and rate of climb. The team's aircraft are in some cases over 25 years old and their airframes require constant attention, with frequent engineering overhauls needed..
    Red_Arrows691_RBA.jpg
  • A detailed view of a Mark 1 Hawk jet belonging to 'Synchro Leader' of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team. We see the flight controls and instrument panels looking grubby and worn with grey paint rubbed or flaking off. This version of the BAE Systems Hawk is low-tech without computers nor fly-by-wire technology it is one of the most user-friendly modern jets to fly and serves as a first step trainer for pilots to accumulate fast-jet flying hours and who are destined for the most sophisticated of fast military fighters in the future. Their aerobatic displays demands that their workhorse machine must have phenominal turning circle ability and rate of climb. The team's aircraft are in some cases over 25 years old and their airframes require constant attention, with frequent engineering overhauls needed. .
    Red_Arrows769_RBA.jpg
  • Cockpit controls detail inside a BAE Ststems Hawk of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team.
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  • Cockpit controls detail inside a BAE Ststems Hawk of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team.
    Red_Arrows770_RBA.jpg
  • A detailed view of a Mark 1 Hawk jet belonging to 'Synchro Leader' of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team. We see the flight controls and instrument panels looking grubby and worn with grey paint rubbed or flaking off. This version of the BAE Systems Hawk is low-tech without computers nor fly-by-wire technology it is one of the most user-friendly modern jets to fly and serves as a first step trainer for pilots to accumulate fast-jet flying hours and who are destined for the most sophisticated of fast military fighters in the future. Their aerobatic displays demands that their workhorse machine must have phenomenal turning circle ability and rate of climb. The team's aircraft are in some cases over 25 years old and their airframes require constant attention, with frequent engineering overhauls needed..
    Red_Arrows688_RBA.jpg
  • Cockpit controls detail inside a BAE Ststems Hawk of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team.
    Red_Arrows771_RBA.jpg
  • Residential London homes in the foreground and new high-rises under construction in the capital, seen from Ruskin Park, a south London green space in Lambeth, on 6th October 2022, in London, England.
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  • A dog walker passes in front of residential London homes in the foreground and new high-rises under construction in the capital, seen from Ruskin Park, a south London green space in Lambeth, on 6th October 2022, in London, England.
    ruskin_homes-02-06-10-2022.jpg
  • Residential London homes in the foreground and new high-rises under construction at Loughborough Junction, seen from Ruskin Park, a south London green space in Lambeth, on 28th October 2022, in London, England.
    ruskin_homes-2-28-10-2022.jpg
  • Residential London homes in the foreground and new high-rises under construction at Loughborough Junction, seen from Ruskin Park, a south London green space in Lambeth, on 28th October 2022, in London, England.
    ruskin_homes-1-28-10-2022.jpg
  • Residential London homes in the foreground and new high-rises under construction at Loughborough Junction, seen from Ruskin Park, a south London green space in Lambeth, on 27th October 2022, in London, England.
    ruskin_homes-5-27-10-2022.jpg
  • Residential London homes in the foreground and new high-rises under construction at Loughborough Junction, seen from Ruskin Park, a south London green space in Lambeth, on 27th October 2022, in London, England.
    ruskin_homes-4-27-10-2022.jpg
  • Residential London homes in the foreground and new high-rises under construction in the capital, seen from Ruskin Park, a south London green space in Lambeth, on 6th October 2022, in London, England.
    ruskin_homes-04-06-10-2022.jpg
  • Residential London homes in the foreground and new high-rises under construction in the capital - and in the distance, the growing development at Nine Elms at Battersea, seen from Ruskin Park, a south London green space in Lambeth, on 6th October 2022, in London, England.
    ruskin_homes-03-06-10-2022.jpg
  • A dog walker passes in front of residential London homes in the foreground and new high-rises under construction in the capital, seen from Ruskin Park, a south London green space in Lambeth, on 6th October 2022, in London, England.
    ruskin_homes-05-06-10-2022.jpg
  • Residential London homes in the foreground and new high-rises under construction in the capital - and in the distance, the growing development at Nine Elms at Battersea, seen from Ruskin Park, a south London green space in Lambeth, on 6th October 2022, in London, England.
    ruskin_homes-07-06-10-2022.jpg
  • A wide view of residential London homes in the foreground and new high-rises under construction in the capital - and in the distance, the growing development at Nine Elms at Battersea, seen from Ruskin Park, a south London green space in Lambeth, on 6th October 2022, in London, England.
    ruskin_homes-08-06-10-2022.jpg
  • A wide view of residential London homes in the foreground and new high-rises under construction in the capital - and in the distance, the growing development at Nine Elms at Battersea, seen from Ruskin Park, a south London green space in Lambeth, on 6th October 2022, in London, England.
    ruskin_homes-09-06-10-2022.jpg
  • A dog walker passes in front of residential London homes in the foreground and new high-rises under construction in the capital, seen from Ruskin Park, a south London green space in Lambeth, on 6th October 2022, in London, England.
    ruskin_homes-06-06-10-2022.jpg
  • The cockpit of a Boeing 737 Max 10 airliner, the experimental variant of 737 that replaces the 737 Max, the model which suffered fatal crashes in Indonesia and Kenya, at the Farnborough Airshow, on 20th July 2022, at Farnborough, England. As a result of the accidents, the 737 Max fleets around the world were grounded with the US aviation manufacturer now recovering from a financial downturn. The flight test cabin is configured for computer work stations and cabling which relay data while water ballast transfers weight and centre-of-gravity information to sensors during flight, gathering callibrated performance information before official the aircraft's eventual certification.
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  • The cockpit of a Boeing 737 Max 10 airliner, the experimental variant of 737 that replaces the 737 Max, the model which suffered fatal crashes in Indonesia and Kenya, at the Farnborough Airshow, on 20th July 2022, at Farnborough, England. As a result of the accidents, the 737 Max fleets around the world were grounded with the US aviation manufacturer now recovering from a financial downturn. The flight test cabin is configured for computer work stations and cabling which relay data while water ballast transfers weight and centre-of-gravity information to sensors during flight, gathering callibrated performance information before official the aircraft's eventual certification.
    farnborough_airshow-06-20-07-2022.jpg
  • The cockpit of a Boeing 737 Max 10 airliner, the experimental variant of 737 that replaces the 737 Max, the model which suffered fatal crashes in Indonesia and Kenya, at the Farnborough Airshow, on 20th July 2022, at Farnborough, England. As a result of the accidents, the 737 Max fleets around the world were grounded with the US aviation manufacturer now recovering from a financial downturn. The flight test cabin is configured for computer work stations and cabling which relay data while water ballast transfers weight and centre-of-gravity information to sensors during flight, gathering callibrated performance information before official the aircraft's eventual certification.
    farnborough_airshow-05-20-07-2022.jpg
  • The cockpit of a Boeing 737 Max 10 airliner, the experimental variant of 737 that replaces the 737 Max, the model which suffered fatal crashes in Indonesia and Kenya, at the Farnborough Airshow, on 20th July 2022, at Farnborough, England. As a result of the accidents, the 737 Max fleets around the world were grounded with the US aviation manufacturer now recovering from a financial downturn. The flight test cabin is configured for computer work stations and cabling which relay data while water ballast transfers weight and centre-of-gravity information to sensors during flight, gathering callibrated performance information before official the aircraft's eventual certification.
    farnborough_airshow-02-20-07-2022.jpg
  • The cockpit of a Boeing 737 Max 10 airliner, the experimental variant of 737 that replaces the 737 Max, the model which suffered fatal crashes in Indonesia and Kenya, at the Farnborough Airshow, on 20th July 2022, at Farnborough, England. As a result of the accidents, the 737 Max fleets around the world were grounded with the US aviation manufacturer now recovering from a financial downturn. The flight test cabin is configured for computer work stations and cabling which relay data while water ballast transfers weight and centre-of-gravity information to sensors during flight, gathering callibrated performance information before official the aircraft's eventual certification.
    farnborough_airshow-03-20-07-2022.jpg
  • The cockpit of a Boeing 737 Max 10 airliner, the experimental variant of 737 that replaces the 737 Max, the model which suffered fatal crashes in Indonesia and Kenya, at the Farnborough Airshow, on 20th July 2022, at Farnborough, England. As a result of the accidents, the 737 Max fleets around the world were grounded with the US aviation manufacturer now recovering from a financial downturn. The flight test cabin is configured for computer work stations and cabling which relay data while water ballast transfers weight and centre-of-gravity information to sensors during flight, gathering callibrated performance information before official the aircraft's eventual certification.
    farnborough_airshow-07-20-07-2022.jpg
  • The cockpit of a Boeing 737 Max 10 airliner, the experimental variant of 737 that replaces the 737 Max, the model which suffered fatal crashes in Indonesia and Kenya, at the Farnborough Airshow, on 20th July 2022, at Farnborough, England. As a result of the accidents, the 737 Max fleets around the world were grounded with the US aviation manufacturer now recovering from a financial downturn. The flight test cabin is configured for computer work stations and cabling which relay data while water ballast transfers weight and centre-of-gravity information to sensors during flight, gathering callibrated performance information before official the aircraft's eventual certification.
    farnborough_airshow-04-20-07-2022.jpg
  • The cockpit of a Boeing 737 Max 10 airliner, the experimental variant of 737 that replaces the 737 Max, the model which suffered fatal crashes in Indonesia and Kenya, at the Farnborough Airshow, on 20th July 2022, at Farnborough, England. As a result of the accidents, the 737 Max fleets around the world were grounded with the US aviation manufacturer now recovering from a financial downturn. The flight test cabin is configured for computer work stations and cabling which relay data while water ballast transfers weight and centre-of-gravity information to sensors during flight, gathering callibrated performance information before official the aircraft's eventual certification.
    farnborough_airshow-01-20-07-2022.jpg
  • US Navy pilot grasps cyclic in the cockpit of a Sikorsky MH-60R helicopter at the Farnborough Airshow. The MH-60R is the U.S. Navy's newest and most advanced multi-mission helicopter, designed for anti-submarine and surface warfare (ASW/ASuW). Secondary missions include: Search and Rescue, anti-ship surveillance and targeting, communication relay and medevac/vertical replenishment. The Sikorsky-built helicopter with integrated avionics and mission systems by Lockheed Martin.
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  • US Navy pilot grasps cyclic in the cockpit of a Sikorsky MH-60R helicopter at the Farnborough Airshow. ..The MH-60R is the U.S. Navy's newest and most advanced multi-mission helicopter, designed for anti-submarine and surface warfare (ASW/ASuW). Secondary missions include: Search and Rescue, anti-ship surveillance and targeting, communication relay and medevac/vertical replenishment. The Sikorsky-built helicipter with integrated avionics and mission systems by Lockheed Martin.
    farnborough_airshow58-19-07-2010-1.jpg
  • US Navy pilot grasps cyclic in the cockpit of a Sikorsky MH-60R helicopter at the Farnborough Airshow. ..The MH-60R is the U.S. Navy's newest and most advanced multi-mission helicopter, designed for anti-submarine and surface warfare (ASW/ASuW). Secondary missions include: Search and Rescue, anti-ship surveillance and targeting, communication relay and medevac/vertical replenishment. The Sikorsky-built helicipter with integrated avionics and mission systems by Lockheed Martin.
    farnborough_airshow57-19-07-2010-1.jpg
  • US Navy pilot grasps cyclic in the cockpit of a Sikorsky MH-60R helicopter at the Farnborough Airshow. The MH-60R is the U.S. Navy's newest and most advanced multi-mission helicopter, designed for anti-submarine and surface warfare (ASW/ASuW). Secondary missions include: Search and Rescue, anti-ship surveillance and targeting, communication relay and medevac/vertical replenishment. The Sikorsky-built helicopter with integrated avionics and mission systems by Lockheed Martin.
    farnborough_airshow56-19-07-2010-1.jpg
  • US Navy pilot grasps cyclic in the cockpit of a Sikorsky MH-60R helicopter at the Farnborough Airshow. The MH-60R is the U.S. Navy's newest and most advanced multi-mission helicopter, designed for anti-submarine and surface warfare (ASW/ASuW). Secondary missions include: Search and Rescue, anti-ship surveillance and targeting, communication relay and medevac/vertical replenishment. The Sikorsky-built helicopter with integrated avionics and mission systems by Lockheed Martin.
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  • Climbing at sub-sonic speed, a Hawk jet aircraft of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, is seen from a neighbouring aircraft during an 'In-Season Practice' (ISP), a summer training flight over the farming fields of Lincolnshire. A landscape of agriculture is behind the red airplanes as they loop after a vertical climb. The front-seated pilot and his guest passenger stare through visors towards the wing to keep a perfect 'reference', maintaining an exact formation as seen from the ground. The Red Arrows fly to within 10 feet (3 metres) apart in some formations with speeds of 480 mph (770 kph), keeping in formation is a skill they learn every winter and refine on spare days like this between public air shows. The RAF roundel, (emblem), is on the nearest wing and the other fuselage as the world falls away in perspective.
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  • A pilot of the US Air Force holds the cyclic abnd collective sticks in the cockpit of a V-22 Osprey at the Farnborough Air Show, UK.
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  • Pilots of the US Air Force in the cockpit of a C-17 transport jet at the Farnborough Air Show, UK.
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  • A pilot of the US Air Force holds the throttle levers in the cockpit of a C-17 transport jet at the Farnborough Air Show, UK.
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  • A pilot of the US Air Force holds the throttle levers in the cockpit of a C-17 transport jet at the Farnborough Air Show, UK.
    C-17_cockpit04-09-07-2012.jpg
  • Looking down vertically upon the Hawk jet aicraft of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, the team loop over agricultural countryside during an In-Season Practice (ISP) training flight near their base at RAF Scampton. Roman Ermine Street road is a diagonal line through the centre, dissecting wisps of organic white smoke left hanging in the air. Reforming in front of a local crowd at the airfield they work through a 25-minute series of display manoeuvres that are loved by thousands at summer air shows. Freshly-ploughed English fields with properties, roads, hedgerows plus former nuclear silos 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.   .
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  • With the runways and former nuclear silos of RAF Scampton below, Lincolnshire, the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team swoop down to their home airfield during an In-Season Practice (ISP) training flight. Trailing white organic smoke before reforming in front of a local crowd they work through a 25-minute series of display manoeuvres that are loved by thousands at summer air shows. They curve round in a similar trajectory as seen on the bending taxi-way. Freshly-ploughed English fields with properties, roads, hedgerows and cold war nuclear solios are seen below on a perfect day for aerobatic displaying. 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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  • Banking hard right over the agricultural Lincolnshire countryside are the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, who have commenced an In-Season Practice (ISP) training flight near their base at RAF Scampton. They turn at a ninety degree angle, two trailing white organic smoke before reforming in front of a local crowd at the airfield and working through 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. Freshly-ploughed English fields with properties, roads and hedgerows 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.   .
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  • Banking slowly left over the agricultural Lincolnshire countryside are the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, who have commenced an In-Season Practice (ISP) training flight near their base at RAF Scampton. They turn at a gentle angle trailing white organic smoke  before reforming in front of a local crowd at the airfield and working through 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. Freshly-ploughed English fields with properties, roads and hedgerows 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.   .
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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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  • Craning their necks skyward, both a pilot and support ground engineers of elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, gaze up to view an air display directly overhead at the Payerne Air 04 show, Switzerland. It is a perfect day for aerobatics with blue skies and during the team's two-day visit to the Swiss airfield at Payerne. Pilot Squadron Leader John Green is one of nine aviators who are collectively known as the Reds because of their famous red flying suits. The ground crew are obviously called the Blues. Payerne 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. The picture is full of humour because John Green is looking one way and the two others look in the opposite direction, while standing next to the aircraft.   .
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  • Seen in profile view, we are looking at the edge of a Hawk jet aircraft port wing flap set at about 45 degrees. Designed by BAE Systems and painted in the colour of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, at RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire. An original serial and issue numbers plate is riveted to its end assembly. The Hawk's classic, highly-efficient lifting wing is legendary with aeronatutical designer experts who recognise its ability to withstand excellent rates of climb and high g-forces (positive or negative gravity) routinely exerted on it by the Red Arrows team who fly more sorties (flights) and undergo more 'g' than other RAF squadron. In bright sunlight we see the graish red that is the signature colour of the team and the RAF's roundel is seen out of focus in the background to make a graphic engineering detail. .
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  • Squadron Leader Spike Jepson, leader of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, demonstrates the Corkscrew manoeuvre to his group of pilots and visitors in the briefing room at their RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire headquarters. Using two scaled model Hawk jet aircraft he shows how their formation is to be flown on their next training flight. Five autumn and winter months are spent teaching new recruits manual aerobatic display flying while the older members (who rotate positions) learn new disciplines within the routine. Their leaning curve is steep, even for these accomplished fast-jet aviators who had already accumulated 1,500 hours in fighters. By Summer they need every aspect of their 25-minute displays honed to perfection. In this meeting room they meet before and after every flight discussing safety, merits and failures.
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  • A 7 year-old boy has been lucky enough to spend a day with the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team. As just four members of the team of nine red jet aircraft fly past in formation, Mitchell stretches out his arm, holding a plastic toy Hawk aircraft up to the blue sky and light cloud with his back to the practice show, part of the team's winter training schedule. The Red Arrows' main purpose is Press and PR and corporate guest visitors are a weekly item in the team's diary during the winter training period - a 5-month schedule of up to six flights a day. Companies who help the RAF, the Red Arrows or local charities are privileged to be invited behind-the-scenes at the squadron's home facilities.
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  • Nine pilots of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, stand in the shape of their signature 'Diamond Nine' formation with one of their Hawk jet aircraft at the team's headquarters at RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire. Today they have reached the all-important milestone of 'first 9-ship' (when all nine aircraft have flown a basic air show display together, after two groups have practiced seperately) and is the culmination of five months rigorous Winter training. They stand proud with beaming smiles on a warm spring day, their flying helmets with those famous arrows pointing towards blue sky and fluffy clouds. Still dressed in green flying suits, they go on to their spring training ground at Akrotiri, Cyprus where they earn the right to wear red suits, known around the world. At the front is team leader, Squadron Leader Spike Jepson...
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  • Stored temporarily in a storeroom shelf, are the front and rear sections of a Hawk jet aircraft smoke pod belonging to the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team. Grubby and old, like museum artifacts, the two items are attached to the ageing aircrafts' belly accessory that provides the team with their distinctive red, white and blue smoke (a vegetable dye and diesel fuel mixture) during their air show display routines. This version of the BAE Systems Hawks are primitive pieces of equipment, without computers or fly-by-wire technology. Nevertheless, the team's aircraft are in some cases over 20 years old and their air-frames require constant attention with increasingly frequent major overhauls due. Here the parts are separated from the middle section which are receiving a winter modification.
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  • Looking out to the Mediterranean Sea from the Akrotiri Peninsular, Cyprus, we see the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, practising their display finale, the Vixen Break, 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. It is a calm sea near the shoreline and 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 simluate diverse geographical features and wind directions. The wreck is the MV Achaios. Built in 1932, it was on a voyage from Yugoslavia to Jeddah in 1976 with a cargo of timber. She ran aground in a storm at Akrotiri Peninsula, but no lives were lost.
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  • The elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, fly over an area known as the Cliffs on the Akrotiri peninsular of southern Cyprus. We see a barren scene of scrub and in the air, the team are in their signature 'Diamond Nine' formation, climbing up in a long arc through the blue sky and traversing above the dusty, featureless landscape where a naval Transit marker in the shape of a giant red arrow aids coastal shipping to safely navigate but which is missing some panels. The nine Hawk jets pass-by as a tight 'nine-ship' (the term used to describe nine aircraft in close formation) during a training flight in the clear Mediterranean skies. They return to this stretch of Cypriot coast each Spring to complete their rigorous winter schedule before the UK's air show display season.
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  • The Hawk jet aircraft of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, are lined up at RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus as members of the team's ground crew step away from the aircraft that they respectively look after. From a low angle we see a wide landscape looking over the taxi-way markings that direct military airplanes. The Red Arrows aircraft are a deep red colour that stand out against the horizon in an identical line. It is a wide expanse of road surface, the yellow centre-lines are for the benefit of pilots who need guidance for parking areas after landing, or leaving towards the departing runway on the southern part of the Cypriot Mediterranean island. With the Red Arrows, the nine taxiing jets all peel off in unison to and from the parking area and these lines are vital for this technique.
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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 Gloucesterhire. 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 diaplay team, they have since flown over 4,000 shows in 52 countries.
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  • Flight Lieutenant Dan Simmons of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, zips up his g-pants before climbing into his Hawk jet. G-pants counterac the effects of high gravity stresses that jet-fighters impose on the human body, automatically inflating and squeezing blood back to the thorax and head when blood drains towards the legs. As he attaches the zipper, he rests his straight right leg on a retractable step which helps him and his ground crew engineers to gain access to the cockpit, high above the ground. Hanging from another part of his airplane is his life-vest which he will wear around his neck, whilst in flight. Flight Lieutenant Simmons wears heavy-duty black boots which are regulation footwear for flying personnel and dressed in his red flying suit that is famous around the world.
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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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  • Specialist Corporal Mal Faulder is an armourer engineer (qualified to handle ejection seats and weaponry on military jets) but here in the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team he is seen polishing the aircraft's flying surfaces using wool and cleaning fluid on the morning of the team's PDA Day. PDA (or 'Public Display Authority'), is a special test flight when their every move and mistake is assessed and graded. Corporal Faulder is to buff up the airplane for an extra special shine on such an important day and we see the UK's Union Jack flag on the side of the diagonal stripes of the tail fin. The Red Arrows ground crew take enormous pride in their role as supporting the aviators whose air displays are known around the world. Blues like Mal outnumber the pilots 8:1. Without them, the Red Arrows couldn't fly.
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  • A lone figure stands silhouetted against a hangar belonging to the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team at RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire. Two huge hangar doors are ajar revealing an orange glow spilling on to the concrete outside. A Hawk jet aircraft is parked awaiting overnight maintenance. Engineers talk inside as the door travels along its track. The men are the team's support ground crew and eleven trades are imported from some sixty that the RAF qualifies. The hangar dates to World War 2, housing Lancaster bombers of 617 Dambusters squadron who attacked the damns of the German Ruhr valley on 16th May 1943 using the Bouncing Bomb. This version of BAE Systems Hawks are low-tech, without computers nor fly-by-wire technology, Some of the  team's aircraft are 25 years old and their airframes require frequent overhauls due.
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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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  • 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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  • Junior Technician Brian Robb, an engineer with the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, shines his torch inside the flaps of a Hawk jet aircraft checking for obstructions, RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire. Wearing ear defenders clasped to his head, J/Tech Robb peers into the wing assembly during a pre-flight inspection before the pilot emerges from for another winter training flight. Robb is a member of 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. Crouching by an RAF roundel emblem, he wears an army style green camouflage coat as protection over the biting Lincolnshire wind, and a fluorescent tabard required for any personnel working on the 'line', where the aircraft taxi to and park. .
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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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  • Squadron Leader Duncan Mason of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, strides out across a gloomy, rainswept 'apron' at RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire. Squadron Leader Mason will fly up to 6 times daily during winter training ,when weather permits, learning new manoeuvres. Wearing winter green flying suits, their day is spent flying and de-briefing. Mason  wears a green flying suit with anti-g pants and helmet on with its pilot number. He is being greeted by a member of the team's support ground crew who outnumber the pilots 8:1.  The engineer wears a fluorescent yellow tabard and stands politely by the waiting aircraft on the 'line'. He has already prepared it for flight and helps with any technical issues that may arise.
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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, Loncolnshire. 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 hangaran 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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  • The rusting remains of a NASA Mercury Project-era spacecraft instrument panel awaits bids during a NASA space junk auction on Merrit Island, Florida - part of a sale of space paraphernalia belonging to NASA enginer Charlie Bell, on 10th March 2003, on Merrit Island, Florida, USA. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • A large man with a shaved head and hairy back is seen from behind as he watches a display by the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team at Weymouth, England. A heart shape which grows from his bald head has been drawn with red smoke in the sky two Hawk jet aircraft taking part in the town's annual air show along the sea front. Such a tough-looking male specimen contrasts with the romance of this valentine symbol helping to make this picture's quirky juxtaposition touching. The Red Arrows use smoke to emphasize their flight-path, help the spectators see their manoeuvres and to make more of an enjoying spectacle. In blue sky they use white smoke for The Heart and red when overcast. We watch the man from below and see him craning his neck skywards, the skin on his thick neck wrinkling as he looks heavy from this angle.
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  • Squadron Leader John Green the executive officer of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, instructs a group of RAF fighter pilots in the art of manual close-formation aerobatic flying. Explaining how to line up their aircraft with their nearest neighbour using a system called 'referencing', he shows them with his fingers the margin of error that is tolerated when only 12ft (3-4m) apart and flying at 400mph (650kph).  The recruits all hope to be selected for next year's team and have travelled to RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus where the Red Arrows complete their pre-season training. Seen from beneath the Hawk jet aircraft's nose on the 'line' Squadron Leader Green kneels by the trailing wing edge to demonstrate what he will expect from their upcoming flying test.
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  • A young boy wearing ear-defenders and dressed in a child's miniature red flying suit is perched on a metal crate of flight spares belonging to the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team. Joshua Lewis is the son of one of the team's electricians Corporal Dave Lewis, and they are both at RAF Scampton in Lincolshire to wave goodbye to the departing Hawk jet aircraft who are leaving for their winter training ground at Akrotiri, Cyprus. Other team-member families have come along to see these famous red aircaft. Most of the team leave the UK for a six-week stint, refining their evolving air display routines and manoeuvres in the clear Mediteranean skies. Pilots and ground support crew will be away from loved-ones and their absence is one of the toughest aspects of RAF frontline personnel - and aerobatic squadrons.
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  • Engineer airframe specialist Junior Technician Barry Pritchard of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, forms part of the team's highly-skilled group of support ground crew who outnumber the pilots 8:1. Here J/Tech Pritchard straddles the fuselage of  the Hawk jet aircraft performing a Ram Air Turbine (RAT) jack change in the squadron hangar. Eleven trades are imported from some sixty that the RAF employs and teaches. The team's aircraft are in some cases 25 years old and their airframes require constant attention, with frequent overhauls needed. In these shelters were housed the Lancaster bombers 617 Dambusters squadron who attacked the damns of the German Ruhr valley on 16th May 1943 using the Bouncing Bomb. The Red Arrows nearby offices as their 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 precuations 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 rainclouds in the gloomy Lincolnshire sky.
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  • A pet owner walks past Edwardian homes that border Ruskin Park and morning fog partially obscures high-rise residential properties in the distance at Nine Elms in Battersea, on 8th February 2023, in London, England.
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  • City office workers ride escalators alongside an artwork entitled 'Evanescent' is being displayed in January and February beneath at the Leadenhall Building in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 6th February 2023, in London, England. Evanescent is a free to visit public installation cnsisting of a cluster of gigantic bubbles that together tower to more than seven metres in height. The work, from Atelier Sisu, has been placed beside the west entrance of the Leadenhall Building aka 'The Cheesegrater'.
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  • A cityscape of corporate office spaces in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 6th February 2023, in London, England.
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  • With Edwardian homes that border Ruskin Park in the foreground, morning fog partially obscures high-rise residential properties in the distance at Nine Elms in Battersea, on 8th February 2023, in London, England.
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  • A runner jogs past Edwardian homes that border Ruskin Park and morning fog partially obscures high-rise residential properties in the distance at Nine Elms in Battersea, on 8th February 2023, in London, England.
    city_mist-07-08-02-2023.jpg
  • A runner jogs past Edwardian homes that border Ruskin Park and morning fog partially obscures high-rise residential properties in the distance at Nine Elms in Battersea, on 8th February 2023, in London, England.
    city_mist-06-08-02-2023.jpg
  • A pet owner walks past Edwardian homes that border Ruskin Park and morning fog partially obscures high-rise residential properties in the distance at Nine Elms in Battersea, on 8th February 2023, in London, England.
    city_mist-05-08-02-2023.jpg
  • A pet owner walks past Edwardian homes that border Ruskin Park and morning fog partially obscures high-rise residential properties in the distance at Nine Elms in Battersea, on 8th February 2023, in London, England.
    city_mist-03-08-02-2023.jpg
  • A pet owner walks past Edwardian homes that border Ruskin Park and morning fog partially obscures high-rise residential properties in the distance at Nine Elms in Battersea, on 8th February 2023, in London, England.
    city_mist-01-08-02-2023.jpg
  • City office workers ride escalators alongside an artwork entitled 'Evanescent' is being displayed in January and February beneath at the Leadenhall Building in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 6th February 2023, in London, England. Evanescent is a free to visit public installation cnsisting of a cluster of gigantic bubbles that together tower to more than seven metres in height. The work, from Atelier Sisu, has been placed beside the west entrance of the Leadenhall Building aka 'The Cheesegrater'.
    evanescent_spheres-07-06-02-2023.jpg
  • City office workers ride escalators alongside an artwork entitled 'Evanescent' is being displayed in January and February beneath at the Leadenhall Building in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 6th February 2023, in London, England. Evanescent is a free to visit public installation cnsisting of a cluster of gigantic bubbles that together tower to more than seven metres in height. The work, from Atelier Sisu, has been placed beside the west entrance of the Leadenhall Building aka 'The Cheesegrater'.
    evanescent_spheres-08-06-02-2023.jpg
  • City office workers ride escalators alongside an artwork entitled 'Evanescent' is being displayed in January and February beneath at the Leadenhall Building in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 6th February 2023, in London, England. Evanescent is a free to visit public installation cnsisting of a cluster of gigantic bubbles that together tower to more than seven metres in height. The work, from Atelier Sisu, has been placed beside the west entrance of the Leadenhall Building aka 'The Cheesegrater'.
    evanescent_spheres-06-06-02-2023.jpg
  • City office workers ride escalators alongside an artwork entitled 'Evanescent' is being displayed in January and February beneath at the Leadenhall Building in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 6th February 2023, in London, England. Evanescent is a free to visit public installation cnsisting of a cluster of gigantic bubbles that together tower to more than seven metres in height. The work, from Atelier Sisu, has been placed beside the west entrance of the Leadenhall Building aka 'The Cheesegrater'.
    evanescent_spheres-04-06-02-2023.jpg
  • City office workers ride escalators alongside an artwork entitled 'Evanescent' is being displayed in January and February beneath at the Leadenhall Building in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 6th February 2023, in London, England. Evanescent is a free to visit public installation cnsisting of a cluster of gigantic bubbles that together tower to more than seven metres in height. The work, from Atelier Sisu, has been placed beside the west entrance of the Leadenhall Building aka 'The Cheesegrater'.
    evanescent_spheres-03-06-02-2023.jpg
  • City office workers ride escalators alongside an artwork entitled 'Evanescent' is being displayed in January and February beneath at the Leadenhall Building in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 6th February 2023, in London, England. Evanescent is a free to visit public installation cnsisting of a cluster of gigantic bubbles that together tower to more than seven metres in height. The work, from Atelier Sisu, has been placed beside the west entrance of the Leadenhall Building aka 'The Cheesegrater'.
    evanescent_spheres-01-06-02-2023.jpg
  • A cityscape of corporate office spaces in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 6th February 2023, in London, England.
    cityscape_flag-03-06-02-2023.jpg
  • A solitary person stands in a window surrounded by a tall cityscape of high-rise offices and corporate spaces in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 6th February 2023, in London, England.
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  • City workers merge with classical architecture and 21st century modernity in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 6th February 2023, in London, England.
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  • City workers merge with classical architecture and 21st century modernity in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 6th February 2023, in London, England.
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  • City workers merge with classical architecture and 21st century modernity in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 6th February 2023, in London, England.
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  • City workers merge with classical architecture and 21st century modernity in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 6th February 2023, in London, England.
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  • City workers merge with classical architecture and 21st century modernity in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 6th February 2023, in London, England.
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  • City workers merge with classical architecture and 21st century modernity in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 6th February 2023, in London, England.
    bishopsgate_workplace-07-06-02-2023.jpg
  • City workers merge with classical architecture and 21st century modernity in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 6th February 2023, in London, England.
    bishopsgate_workplace-06-06-02-2023.jpg
  • City workers merge with classical architecture and 21st century modernity in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 6th February 2023, in London, England.
    bishopsgate_workplace-05-06-02-2023.jpg
  • City workers merge with classical architecture and 21st century modernity in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 6th February 2023, in London, England.
    bishopsgate_workplace-04-06-02-2023.jpg
  • City workers merge with classical architecture and 21st century modernity in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 6th February 2023, in London, England.
    bishopsgate_workplace-03-06-02-2023.jpg
  • City workers merge with classical architecture and 21st century modernity in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 6th February 2023, in London, England.
    bishopsgate_workplace-01-06-02-2023.jpg
  • City workers merge with classical architecture and 21st century modernity in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 6th February 2023, in London, England.
    bishopsgate_workplace-02-06-02-2023.jpg
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