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Amazing pictures of the Red Arrows captured over Cleethorpes for Armed Forces Weekend 2024

The aerobatics team of the Royal Air Force put on a stunning display for the crowds of onlookers

They never fail to impress and the Red Arrows were up to their amazing airborne tricks, much to the delight of onlookers at Cleethorpes’ Armed Forces Weekend.

The “Reds” put on a spectacular display over the sea off the town’s Central Promenade. There were breathtaking formations from nine of the world’s most famous aircraft.

Using their signature red, white and blue smoke trails, the Red Arrows swooped down, up and over, leaving loops, knots and plumes in their wake as they made perfect shapes in the air. Awed spectators watched from the promenade, the beach and the pier, hoping to capture the sights for posterity on phones and cameras.

With the sun glinting off their canopies and blue skies for a backdrop, the skilled Red Arrows pilots undertook seemingly impossible manoeuvres in nerve-jangling almost wingtip-to-wingtip contact. With necks craned, no one wanted to miss a thing.

People burst into spontaneous applause on the sands as the display team performed their routine, including the trademark diamond nine formation, marking the Reds’ milestone 60th display season. Cleethorpes has seen what millions more people will view at air shows and events as the Red Arrows perform their refreshed aerobatic routine, packed with big new shapes, dynamic manoeuvres not performed for more than a decade and some special additions to mark this diamond anniversary year.

The distinctive BAE Systems Hawk T1 fast-jets are also carrying 60th diamond season artwork and logos on the aircraft fuselage and tailfins during 2024.

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