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Blue Eagles Team Displays – Eastbourne Airborne – 12th to 15th August 2004

Eastbourne Airborne is another of the very large seaside airshows that have become such a popular attraction in the UK. Eastbourne’s show is unusual in as much as it is a four day event, taking place this year from Thursday 12th to Sunday 15th August. Again, it means a long weekend for the Team, with the aircraft operating from Shoreham and the Team stand crew down on the seafront at Eastbourne. Thursday and Friday the Team flew full displays to a packed seafront and on Saturday we were able to capture the images below.

Farah and Nargiza from the Congress and Grand hotels had been looking after the Team well, and were invited to have a look at the Gazelle cockpit.	Jenna Taylor from Brighton and Ben Davis from Eastbourne enjoyed the cockpit display….

….as did Ross Hastings and Steven Hill from Newhaven.	Keiran was enjoying working with the people of Eastbourne.

The stand was on a main throughfare, so was busy all day!	Running in in close formation.

The crossover break part 1…	….and part 2!

Als Rickers and Scott in line abreast.	The four-way cross.

Stewart and Nige in the 270 turns.	Ed and Graham in the bright sunlight.

Stewart and Nige in a perfect heart….	….balanced across the Eastbourne seafront.

The Lynx with Al Rickers and Al Scott in formation.	Nige and Stewart pulling up for the bunts.

Ed and Graham in the Eagle Roll.	One of the other display aircraft was the Tornado GR4, who made a spectacular final flypast in the humid air.

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