Blue Eagles Team News for 2005

16 and 17 July at Fairford for the Royal International Air Tattoo.

Saturday 16 July was the first day of the Royal International Air Tattoo, held annualy at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire. The show is simply enormous, with participants from all over the world in a dazzling variety of types and colours. Fast jets, transport and historic aircraft and helicopters fill the eight hour flying display, showing the huge crowd the full scope of aviation. The Blue Eagles were joined by the Army Historic Aircraft Flight to form an eleven-ship flypast to open the Army flying display early in the show. They will be back to do it again tomorrow, and we will be bringing you the best of the action from both displays. You can see the AHAF site by clicking on the link above, they also have their own report from the show. The weather was just about perfect for an airshow, with a light, cool wind taking the edge off the hot sun, so a truly excellent display was flown, as evinced by the pictures below.

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Saturday 16 July

The display stand was busy from the very first, right through the day.	Paula made instant freinds while hard at work distributing Team posters.
The Lynx was parked next to the B-1.	The Fairford display area is vast, dwarfing the Team as they taxied out.
The Team flew out to the hold in tight V formation.	The eleven-ship formation took up a great deal of sky.
The cross-over break was superb!	Al and Al pulling up for the simultaneous pedal turns.
Neil and Dave coming out of a backflip….	….and flying round the top of a loop.
Grant and Jim in a close cross at the bottom of the heart.	The Lynx pulling out of the reverse vic.
The finale corkscrew was another good one!	The stand also saw the welcome return of the Gazelle cockpit, here Will explains the controls.
Other helicopters on the display bill, the Dutch Apache….	….and the incredibly agile RAF Chinook.

Click here to see the Fairford display on Sunday.