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  • Looking skyward is a USAF pilot learning how to vector in a potential helicopter rescue as part of a special US Air Force (USAF) survival course (see also Corbis image 42-18212808) Fairchild AFB, Spokane, Washington State. The man has been taught to use a special escape and evasion (E &E) techniques to visiting air crew whose flying careers depend on passing this rigorous week of survival instruction. Should they be downed in hostile territory for example, they will need every skill learned here to survive possibly weeks being hunted in the wilderness so trapping and preparing fresh meat for human consumption is important for survival. Here the crewman has let off a red smoke canister to mark his location for the friendly aircraft to see.
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  • In mid-flight between Hamburg in Germany and London Heathrow, we see a passenger?s view of a climbing airliner's port wing and the hazy German landscape below at a high altitude. The sky above reflects its soft blue hue on the upper surface of the left wing but the air below is a soft pink, a rural patchwork of fields and villages. As an example of aerodynamic design, the flying machine is a perfect gesture towards the conquest of flight, copied from the characteristics of a bird?s anatomy. As art, the mere beauty of taking to the air and maintaining level, organised speed is so routine, we rarely look our from our window to marvel at how and why. 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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  • Golden Tours tour bus Isabel Marant advertising, on 16th February 2022, in London, England.
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  • Golden Tours tour bus Isabel Marant advertising, on 16th February 2022, in London, England.
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  • Pilots belonging to the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, walk in line from their parked Hawk jet aircraft during their two-day visit to the airfield at the Payerne Air 04 show, Switzerland. It is a perfect day for aerobatics with blue alpine skies during the teams' two-day visit to the Swiss airfield. 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. European display teams and air forces gathered to celebrate the 90th anniversary of Swiss military aviation. The team walk towards waiting transport wearing the red flying suits, synonymous with an ambassadorial role for the UK and recruiting tool for the RAF's pilots of the future. Since their birth in 1965, they have performed over 4,000 shows in 52 countries.
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  • A mannequin family of parents and children display clothes on sale in a Polish shop in Ostroleka, Poland.
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  • A mannequin family of parents and children display clothes on sale in a Polish shop in Ostroleka, Poland.
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  • Golden Tours tour bus Isabel Marant advertising, on 16th February 2022, in London, England.
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  • A woman walks past a billboard advert for the Metropolitan Police which features a male schools officer of colour, beneath the railway bridges at Loughborough Junction in the south London borough of Lambeth, on 18th November 2021, in London, England.
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  • A billboard advert for the Metropolitan Police which features a male schools officer of colour is beneath the railway bridges at Loughborough Junction in the south London borough of Lambeth, on 18th November 2021, in London, England.
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  • Following the death, at the age of 96, of Queen Elizabeth II at Balmoral Castle in Scotland, a member of the public helps a mother and child on to a bus near the portrait of the queen, on 9th September 2022, in London, England. Queen Elizabeth came to the British throne in 1952 and is therefore, after 70 years, the longest reigning monarch in British history and she is succeeded by her eldest  son and heir Charles, who is now titled King Charles III.
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  • Three Met Police officers walk down the street near Covent Garden, past a signpost urging the public to maintain the correct Social Distances at the end of Lockdown 2 during the second wave of the Coronavirus pandemic, on 1st December 2020, in London, England.
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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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  • 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 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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  • RAF Flight Lieutenant Jez Griggs, exerts his last, tough repetition of sit-ups to reach his target during his annual basic fitness test. Griggs is a member of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, and each member has to pass fitness exams like this in order to maintain their military pilots' licence. Held in the gym at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus, it forms part of the team's Spring training month. The fatigued pilot is straining to sit upright once more while an RAF instructor shouts encouragement while holding down his feet at the ankles to ensure the sit-ups are performed perfectly. The picture is blurred to show movement during the exercise and the man's face is red with effort. Another instructor is seen in the background holding down another pilot's feet and the floor of the gymnasium is marked for indoor sport. .
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  • Passers-by walk beneath the large billboard, a portrait of English football player, Marcus Rashford, outsidee the Strand branch of Coutts Bank, on 14th October, 2021, in Westminster, London, England. Marcus Rashford has recently been awarded an honourary degree by The University of Manchester in recognition of his political campaigning on behalf of the underprivilged (in particular, of school meals) and his philanthropy. He currently plays for Manchester United and is in the English national team. He has also been the victim of online racial abuse.
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  • A woman of colour walks beneath the large billboard, a portrait of English football player, Marcus Rashford, outsidee the Strand branch of Coutts Bank, on 14th October, 2021, in Westminster, London, England. Marcus Rashford has recently been awarded an honourary degree by The University of Manchester in recognition of his political campaigning on behalf of the underprivilged (in particular, of school meals) and his philanthropy. He currently plays for Manchester United and is in the English national team. He has also been the victim of online racial abuse.
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  • A young girl and some adults walk beneath the large billboard, a portrait of English football player, Marcus Rashford, outsidee the Strand branch of Coutts Bank, on 14th October, 2021, in Westminster, London, England. Marcus Rashford has recently been awarded an honourary degree by The University of Manchester in recognition of his political campaigning on behalf of the underprivilged (in particular, of school meals) and his philanthropy. He currently plays for Manchester United and is in the English national team. He has also been the victim of online racial abuse.
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  • A young boy and some adults walk beneath the large billboard, a portrait of English football player, Marcus Rashford, outsidee the Strand branch of Coutts Bank, on 14th October, 2021, in Westminster, London, England. Marcus Rashford has recently been awarded an honourary degree by The University of Manchester in recognition of his political campaigning on behalf of the underprivilged (in particular, of school meals) and his philanthropy. He currently plays for Manchester United and is in the English national team. He has also been the victim of online racial abuse.
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  • A group of young people paddle past a riverside period house, lead by a paddle-board instructor  at Thorpe St Andrew, on 2nd July 2021, in Norwich, England.
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  • A group of young people paddle past a riverside period house, lead by a paddle-board instructor  at Thorpe St Andrew, on 2nd July 2021, in Norwich, England.
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  • A group of young people paddle past a riverside period house, lead by a paddle-board instructor  at Thorpe St Andrew, on 2nd July 2021, in Norwich, England.
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  • Three days after the killing of Jack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23, by the convicted teorrorist Usman Khan at Fishmongers' Hall on London Bridge, the Met Police Commissioner Cressida Dick and a Rabbi leave the vigil at the Guildhall for friends and families of the victims and Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Leader of the Opposition Jeremy Corbyn and London Mayor Sadiq Khan plus City and police officials, in the City of London, on 2nd December 2019, in London, England.
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  • Three days after the killing of Jack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23, by the convicted teorrorist Usman Khan at Fishmongers' Hall on London Bridge, the Met Police Commissioner Cressida Dick and a Rabbi leave the vigil at the Guildhall for friends and families of the victims and Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Leader of the Opposition Jeremy Corbyn and London Mayor Sadiq Khan plus City and police officials, in the City of London, on 2nd December 2019, in London, England.
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  • Schoolchildren of various ages learn circus skills from a circus performer with the small Snapdragon Circus, on 28th September 1990, in London, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • Young smiling couple pass a Nike retail poster of Northern Irish golfer Rory McIlroy, in central London.
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  • Man passes a Nike retail poster of Northern Irish golfer Rory McIlroy, in central London.
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  • Smiling woman and friend pass a Nike retail poster of Northern Irish golfer Rory McIlroy, in central London.
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  • Smiling woman and friend pass a Nike retail poster of Northern Irish golfer Rory McIlroy, in central London.
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  • Men pass a Nike retail poster of Northern Irish golfer Rory McIlroy, in central London.
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  • Women street shoppers in cenral London walk past an H&M fashion poster
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  • Women street shoppers in cenral London walk past an H&M fashion poster
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  • Young girl watches young smoker at a south London bus stop.
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  • A poster on the exterior of the corporate exhibition chalet of Roscosmos at the Farnborough Air Show, England. The Russian Federal Space Agency, commonly called Roscosmos is the government agency responsible for the Russian space science program and general aerospace research.
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  • A moon-walking NASA astronaut model stands in the middle of two terminal escalators - as an airline pilot glides past at Miami International airport. As the state from where all the Apollo moonshots were launched at Cape Canaveral, Florida is proud of its space race heritage. Like US astronauts of that era, the airline pilot may be an ex-military aviator too now flying commercial aircraft from hubs like Miami and across the US.
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  • British schoolchildren on a daytrip to the capital enjoy a chance encounter with guardsmen at Horseguards on London's Whitehall. Gathering around the two troops, they talk to the caucasian man rather than the smaller man of afro-caribbean descent, both wearing the scarlet uniform tunics of the British Household Cavalry. This regiment is classed as a corps in its own right, and consists of two regiments: Life Guards (British Army) and the Blues and Royals (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons). They are the senior regular regiments in the British Army, with traditions dating from 1660.
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  • A poster for original Berliner Bratwurst sausage next to a section of the Berlin wall near the former Checkpoint Charlie, the former border between Communist East and West Berlin during the Cold War. The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The Eastern Bloc claimed that the wall was erected to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the "will of the people" in building a socialist state in East Germany. In practice, the Wall served to prevent the massive emigration and defection that marked Germany and the communist Eastern Bloc during the post-World War II period.
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  • An image of Omar al-Bashir, President of Sudan, adorns an old section of the old Berlin Wall opposite the former Checkpoint Charlie, the former border between Communist East and West Berlin during the Cold War. The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The Eastern Bloc claimed that the wall was erected to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the "will of the people" in building a socialist state in East Germany. In practice, the Wall served to prevent the massive emigration and defection that marked Germany and the communist Eastern Bloc during the post-World War II period.
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  • A painted section of the old Berlin wall standing in a pedestrian precinct, near Checkpoint Charlie in central Berlin. The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the Communist German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The Eastern Bloc claimed that the wall was erected to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the "will of the people" in building a socialist state in East Germany. In practice, the Wall served to prevent the massive emigration and defection that marked Germany and the communist Eastern Bloc during the post-World War II period.
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  • Christian Taylor, the American world triple jump champion meets fans after his TV appearance on NBC's Today show broadcast live from the Olympic Park during the London 2012 Olympics. Taylor added Olympic gold to his tally, holding off his compatriot Will Claye in a contest whose earlier stages almost saw Taylor eliminated after two fouls.
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  • Christian Taylor, the American world triple jump champion meets fans after his TV appearance on NBC's Today show broadcast live from the Olympic Park during the London 2012 Olympics. Taylor added Olympic gold to his tally, holding off his compatriot Will Claye in a contest whose earlier stages almost saw Taylor eliminated after two fouls.
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  • Members of the United States women's water polo team meet friends and fans after making a TV appearance on NBC's Today show broadcast live from the Olympic Park during the London 2012 Olympics, and the morning after winning the gold medal match against Spain.
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  • Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt's Visa ad on a red London bus and a inspiring image of Team GB gold medallist heptathlete Jessica Ennis on the exterior of the Adidas store in central London's Oxford Street, during the London 2012 Olympic Games. The Ennis ad is for sports footwear brand Adidas and their 'Take The Stage' campaign which is viewable across Britain and to Britons who have been cheering these athletes who have been winning medals in numbers not seen for 100 years. Their heroic performances have surprised a host nation who until the victories, were largely anti-Olympics - now adoring their darling Ennis and her good looks.
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  • A man walks near the inspiring image of Team GB gold medallist heptathlete Jessica Ennis and diver Tom Daley which adorns the exterior of the Adidas store in central London's Oxford Street, during the London 2012 Olympic Games. The ad is for sports footwear brand Adidas and their 'Take The Stage' campaign which is viewable across Britain and to Britons who have been cheering these athletes who have been winning medals in numbers not seen for 100 years. Their heroic performances have surprised a host nation who until the victories, were largely anti-Olympics - now adoring their darling Ennis and her good looks.
    olympic_city17-08-08-2012.jpg
  • Two women window shop near the inspiring image of Team GB gold medallist heptathlete Jessica Ennis and long jumper Phillips Idowu which adorn the exterior of the Adidas store in central London's Oxford Street, during the London 2012 Olympic Games. The ad is for sports footwear brand Adidas and their 'Take The Stage' campaign which is viewable across Britain and to Britons who have been cheering these athletes who have been winning medals in numbers not seen for 100 years. Their heroic performances have surprised a host nation who until the victories, were largely anti-Olympics - now adoring their darling Ennis and her good looks.
    olympic_city15-08-08-2012.jpg
  • Passers-by walk beneath the inspiring images of Team GB gold medallist heptathlete Jessica Ennis and long jumper Phillips Idowu adorn the exterior of the Adidas store in central London's Oxford Street, during the London 2012 Olympic Games. The ad is for sports footwear brand Adidas and their 'Take The Stage/Crown' campaign which is viewable across Britain and to Britons who have been cheering these athletes who have been winning medals in numbers not seen for 100 years. Their heroic performances have surprised a host nation who until the victories, were largely anti-Olympics - now adoring their darling Ennis and her good looks.
    olympic_city10-08-08-2012.jpg
  • A woman stands beneath the inspiring image of Team GB gold medallist heptathlete Jessica Ennis which adorns the exterior of the Adidas store in central London's Oxford Street, during the London 2012 Olympic Games. The ad is for sports footwear brand Adidas and their 'Take The Stage/Crown' campaign which is viewable across Britain and to Britons who have been cheering these athletes who have been winning medals in numbers not seen for 100 years. Their heroic performances have surprised a host nation who until the victories, were largely anti-Olympics - now adoring their darling Ennis and her good looks.
    olympic_city08-08-08-2012.jpg
  • Passers-by walk beneath the inspiring images of Team GB gold medallist heptathlete Jessica Ennis and long jumper Phillips Idowu adorn the exterior of the Adidas store in central London's Oxford Street, during the London 2012 Olympic Games. The ad is for sports footwear brand Adidas and their 'Take The Stage' campaign which is viewable across Britain and to Britons who have been cheering these athletes who have been winning medals in numbers not seen for 100 years. Their heroic performances have surprised a host nation who until the victories, were largely anti-Olympics - now adoring their darling Ennis and her good looks.
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  • Men walk past a giant ad mural of a bare-chested young male model, carrying Abercrombie shopping bags.
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  • Older, obese woman walks past a giant ad mural of a bare-chested young male model
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  • Women walk past a giant ad mural of a bare-chested young male model, carrying Abercrombie shopping bags.
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  • Two women walk past a giant ad mural of a bare-chested young male model
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  • Women walk past a giant ad mural of a bare-chested young male model, carrying Abercrombie shopping bags.
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  • Two women walk past a giant ad mural of a bare-chested young male model
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  • Elderly couple walk past a giant ad mural of a bare-chested young male model.
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  • Young woman photographs a giant ad mural of a bare-chested young male model
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  • A woman hairdresser seemingly works on the graphics of glamourous models' hair in salon shop window.
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  • Acrylic teeth samples displayed at Ivoclar in Schaan, Liechtenstein who export 60 million false dentures a year worldwide
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  • It is morning in Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal, India and on the West bank of the Hooghly River the food market is busy with merchandise being brought across the Howrah Bridge. We see coconuts piled on the ground and women carrying sacks on their heads while others stand around them awaiting trade. Above them is the huge British engineering of the bridge which stretches across the water towards the city beyond. The bridge is one of three on the Hooghly River and is a famous symbol of Kolkata and West Bengal. Bearing the daily weight of approximately 150,000 vehicles and 4,000,000 pedestrians. It is one of the longest bridges of its type in the world. The Hooghly River is an approximately 260 km long distributary of the Ganges River and this bridge is one of the finest cantilever bridges in the world.
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  • In the mid-day heat, Flt. Lt. Anthony Parkinson 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • The Red Arrows pilot Flt. Lt. Matt Jarvis in the cockpit of a 2-seater Spitfire at RAF Scampton while helping raise funds for Macmillan cancer charity, Flt. Lt. Jarvis died in March 2005.
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  • The Hawk jets of the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team make a low-level pass through summer skies. ,
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  • A young boy sits in BAE Systems Hawk cockpit of the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team.
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  • Pilots of the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team sign autograpohs before their display at Eastborne.
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  • An old fashioned pair of public address speakers have been attached to a no access sign overlooking the Northumberland countryside at the Kielder Air Show. Here, the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, are to perform and the squadron's commentator - known as Red 10 - will be describing the 25-minute routine performed in front of a few hundred people, probably the smallest of the Red Arrows audiences. The Hawk aircraft will be flying over the borderland between England and Scotland during this display which has attracted a local crowd to this pretty landscape. This primitive method of amplification makes for it charmingly quirky. Tangled electrical wires and an extension reel is low-tech and makeshift, vastly different to other shows where digital sound quality reproduces audio to many of thousands of spectators.
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  • Pilot of the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team signs literature for junior RAF cadets. .
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  • Pilot of the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team signs literature for junior RAF cadets. .
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  • Pilots of the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team meet families after their fly-past over Paris on Bastille Day.
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  • Ending France's Bastille Day parade, the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, leave a trail of smoke over the pyramid peak of the Louvre art museum in the centre of Paris. Leaving vapour trails of red, white and blue smoke to mark the 100th anniversary of the Anglo-French Entente Cordiale. They were chosen by the French authorities to close the fly-pasts. British armed forces paraded in the historic parade for the first time. Under blue skies on a perfect summer day, the squadron lined up in their classic fly-past 'V-shape' called 'Big Battle', following the straight line of the Champs Elysees then eastwards over the Parisian suburbs. Personnel from four British military units were present and French Air Force jets performed their own fly-past to open the parade, while the British Hawk jets of the Red Arrows had the honour of completing it. .
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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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  • The Hawk jets of the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team make a low-level pass through summer skies.
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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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  • 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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  • Joystick controller at BAE Systems Hawk jet aircraft simulator test a Red Arrows pilot at the fast-jet flying training centre, RAF Valley, Anglesey, Wales. All fast-jet pilots are required to complete an 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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  • RAF fighter pilot in Harrier ground attack aircraft at RAF Wittering.
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  • RAF fighter pilot in Harrier ground attack aircraft at RAF Wittering.
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  • Young lad shows interest in Airfix models incl the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team.
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  • Young boy struck with awe at meeting pilot with the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team at air shiow.
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  • Young lad wears merchandising flight suit of the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team at air show.
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  • Young fans of the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team, collect memorablia.
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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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  • Two pilots of the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team walk out to their aircraft for another training sortie.
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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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  • Ground crew of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team polish 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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  • Ground crew of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team polish 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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  • Ground crew of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team polish 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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  • Pilots of the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team leave base before another winter training sortie.
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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. Fouteen 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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  • Members of the the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, spend hours aboard a C-130 Hercules transport aircraft during a two-day journey from RAF Scampton to RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus. 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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  • A pilot of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, is about to plunge into the blue  Mediterranean waters for his annual Wet Drill exercise during Spring training in Cyprus. There are lines attaching him to a boat ensuring his safety. The rehearsal is to practise a helicopter recovery after a fast-jet ejection over the sea. His RAF-issue life vest (containing a vital life-raft) has inflated when in  contact with the salt water and helps him stay afloat in the cold water. This yearly event is required of all flying personnel to ensure that any accident over water can reach a positive outcome - by the rescuing of an expensively-trained pilot or navigator.
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  • While visiting London's tourist sites, a young boy of about 5 years-old spends time at Horse Guards where a soldier from the Household Cavalry, also dressed in a deep red coat, stands motionless and at-ease. It is a bright day and the gray stonework amplifies the scarlett uniform tunics as the boy has his picture taken by family. The British Household Cavalry is classed as a corps in its own right, and consists of two regiments: Life Guards (British Army) and the Blues and Royals (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons). They are the senior regular regiments in the British Army, with traditions dating from 1660.
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  • Reflected in the surrounding pond, we see the glorious Victoria Memorial, the beautiful marble structure built by the British still during the days of the colonial Indian Raj. Couples and families gather in the Memorial's grounds to experience the cool air of late-afternoon near the white, domed building. Built between 1906 and 1921, it is a majestic white marble building at the southern end of the Maidan (literally meaning open field, the largest urban park, a large expansive plain in central Calcutta city. Nowadays it is a museum and group activities are being discouraged due to the fears that pollution will damage this fine structure that honours Queen Victoria, then Empress of India.
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  • Seen from behind as they stop at dotted give-way lines on this empty road junction, we see a strange perspective of deserted housing and empty roads, Jen West and her elderly wheelchair-bound mother Margaret - both residents of the experimental community village of Poundbury, Dorset, England. As if they are pedestrians about cross a busy highway, it is an incongruous scene of irony. Poundbury is the visionary model village that Charles, Prince of Wales sought to develop in 1993 as a successful and pioneering town near Dorchester, built on land owned by his own Duchy of Cornwall, challenging otherwise poor post-war trends in town planning and to some extent following the New Urbanism concept from the US except that the design influences are European.
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  • On its regular morning walk and wearing a matching red coat as its owner, a small dog exercises in Holmead Road in the experimental community village of Poundbury, Dorset, England. As the mutt looks at the camera, the man waits for him to stop sniffing around before moving on. The pair stand on crunchy gravel, a deterrent for would-be thieves who might be tempted to this small town where middle-class residents live. Poundbury is the visionary model village that Charles, Prince of Wales sought to develop in 1993 as a successful and pioneering town near Dorchester, built on land owned by his own Duchy of Cornwall, challenging otherwise poor post-war trends in town planning and to some extent following the New Urbanism concept from the US except that the design influences are European..
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  • A secure fence deters young children from entering and playing in the new (but as yet unused) playground in the experimental community village of Poundbury, Dorset, England. The new swings and mini-roundabout can be seen through the wire in the foreground while the safe surfaces of wood-chip ensures the little ones are protected from falls on to hard surfaces. Poundbury is the visionary model village that Charles, Prince of Wales sought to develop in 1993 as a successful and pioneering town near Dorchester, built on land owned by his own Duchy of Cornwall, challenging otherwise poor post-war trends in town planning and to some extent following the New Urbanism concept from the US except that the design influences are European.
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