.Next on were the Blue Eagles, the helicopter display team. Ever see a helicopter fly upside down? Helicopters are notoriously difficult to fly without making them do that. Extraordinarily difficult to capture on camera with a digital LCD screen in bright sunlight. Next were the Red Arrows, which random shutter pressing caught here:
I love the Red Arrows, their skill is beyond belief. I have been known to cry at the sight of them.Of course, there is also the visceral thrill of what happens if...... Then this bastard turns up. The noise, the afterburners the manouverability, the sitting stationary on its' tail and the acceleration. Stunning
. The inevitable queue to get home. Lots of extra staff to collect tickets, but no extra trains or through trains stopping or even extra coaches. Thus are todays railways.
And yes, on the up platform at Dawlish, the trains do stop that far up the platform, god knows why. Probably just to piss off the passengers.
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Loved the photos of the planes. But Simon got really excited when he saw the train shot... going on about the atmospheric railway pumping station he could see!
The Red Arrows were based just up the road from where I grew up, and they practised over the hill behind my secondary school. I used to gaze out of the window during English lessons watching them instead of writing essays :-)
Yay. I thought the Arrows were fantastic this year. But they're always fanatstic... *sigh* Sheer brilliance.
And I am smarmy and saw them wondrously from a Teignmouth hill that overlooks Dawlish, thus avoiding all nasty crowds.
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