I too remember back to the Black Arrows.
Luckily for me I managed to meet all the pilots of the Gnat Red Arrows when I was a teenager at Mildenhall.
Even more luck, when the Reds changed from the Gnats to the Hawks in 1980, I got an invite to Kemble to meet them and see them practice. Three times they went up that day, and then to attend the de-briefing for the rollicking because it seemed the challenge was to see who could get low enough to cause the corn to part in the neighbouring fields.
It was wonderful to realize that they are not "action men" but real people who are excellent at what they do.
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