"What can one say about the Red Arrows that has not already been said. I used to see them regularly when I worked at RAF Manston from 1965 to 1972 they used us to practice away from the public gaze over the sea in fact in those days we used to see them so often I used to go home with my clothes smelling of diesel fumes which they used to make smoke. And they flew so low! I actually stopped bothering to look out of my office window to watch them. In the early days of course they flew “Gnats” (sometimes very very low); right to the modern day they continue to enthrall young and old, but not me so much these days now that they are obliged to fly so far away with the closure of Manston as an airfield!!"/p
The first 20 slides are pre-digital taken from 1965 onwards when the pilots flew Folland Gnats. The following 40 slides are also pre-digital taken from 1979 onwards when the pilots switched to BAE Hawk Trainers. The remaining slides (90) are all digital taken after the millennium."
