Britain gallery: Red Arrows 4

The Red Arrows, Britain's pre-eminent (RAF) aerial display team operate out of RAF

Scampton, as a home base, and Boscombe Down, the RAF's long-established research and

development base in Wiltshire. This is also the location of the Empire Test Pilots' School,

where the best of the world's military and commercial pilots are trained to within an inch of

their pension fund. I thought I knew a little bit about how an aeroplane flew, but in the course

of attending a couple of lectures there whilst shooting a film on the School itself, I didn't

understand a single word. And why would I? - these guys could probably take an entire

Typhoon attack aircraft to pieces and re-assemble it again without leaving out any bits. I

couldn't do that with an Ikea wardrobe. This is why we have the best trained and most

exceptional pilots in the world, and why the Red Arrows are the best of the best.

The Red Arrows, Britain's pre-eminent (RAF) aerial display team operate out of RAF Scampton, as

a home base, and Boscombe Down, the RAF's long-established research and development base

in Wiltshire. This is also the location of the Empire Test Pilots' School, where the best of the world's

military and commercial pilots are trained to within an inch of their pension fund. I thought I knew

a little bit about how an aeroplane flew, but in the course of attending a couple of lectures there

whilst shooting a film on the School itself, I didn't understand a single word. And why would I? -

these guys could probably take an entire Typhoon attack aircraft to pieces and re-assemble it

again without leaving out any bits. I couldn't do that with an Ikea wardrobe. This is why we have

the best trained and most exceptional pilots in the world, and why the Red Arrows are the best of

the best.