The Red Arrows, officially known as the Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team, is the aerobatics display team of the Royal Air Force (RAF) based at RAF Waddington. The team was formed in late 1964 as an all-RAF team, replacing a number of unofficial teams that had been sponsored by RAF commands.
The RAF Red Arrows depart the 2014 Royal International Air Tattoo, England, in a colour scheme that commemorates their 50th year.
"London Defended" 1925 Official Programme
Hawk T.1s on the flightline at RAF Mildenhall in 1985
Gnat T.1s on the flightline at RAF Kemble in 1973
The BAE Systems Hawk is a British single-engine, jet-powered advanced trainer aircraft. It was first known as the Hawker Siddeley Hawk, and subsequently produced by its successor companies, British Aerospace and BAE Systems. It has been used in a training capacity and as a low-cost combat aircraft.
A Royal Air Force Hawk T1A at Kemble Airport, Gloucestershire, with its pilot
RAF Hawk at Blackpool Airport, 2008