Hangar doors of red Arrows aerobatic team are opened on misty morning. Hangar was HQ for WW2 617 Dambusters Squadron.
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RichardBakerRedArrows / Alamy Stock PhotoImage ID:
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4252 x 4136 px | 36 x 35 cm | 14.2 x 13.8 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
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RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire, England UKMore information:
On a misty morning, a red Hawk jet aircraft belonging to the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, is parked in the hangar at RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire, the home base for the squadron. The aircraft awaits attention from the engineer's night-shift who service and maintain all 11 of the famous red aerobatic jets before flying the next morning. The hangar, an original World War 2 shelter for the Lancaster bombers of 617 Dambusters squadron who attacked the damns of the German Ruhr valley on 16th May 1943 using the Bouncing Bomb. The Red Arrows use this and nearby offices administrative nerve-centre for the 90-plus displays they perform a year.