Red Arrows flight

OOOOOh i wish.

we appear to be in the middle of where they wont be flying

Oh, we have just seen them fly over, just xlightly west of our house. 8 of them. Brilliant!.

Slightly.

Gosh, so excited that I can't count.
9 aircraft all together.
5 at the front and 4 behind

Someone just posted a video of them on one of my local FB sites sadly not quite close enough for me to see them in person, they sound terrific in the video. I live in Ealing.

One advantage of living near Lincoln is that we see the Red Arrows practising quite frequently. One thing they sometimes do is leave a heart trail over the city.

When we lived in Cyprus in the 1980s the Red Arrows would spend each March out there practising, so we saw them frequently. They always did a display for the UK families, which was amazing. The best thing was after the display and the planes had landed you could see them close up and walk around them, and chat to the pilots. I have a photo of DS aged three next to one of the planes.

They also did a display for the RAF hospital too; I was a patient there at the time and we were allowed up on the hospital roof to watch. Afterwards the pilots toured the wards with souvenirs and to chat with the patients.

I have never seen the Red Arrows or could have added to my list of 'have seen.'. These being the Lancaster and Spitfire, in flight, during WW11 then Concorde take off and land at the Farnborough Air Show.
In the years that followed, living on Cornwalls north coast, the boom followed by the shaking of my house windows as it picked up speed on its journey over the Atlantic to the U.S.