AVIATION’s top team visited North Yorkshire on brief fly-through on the way home from the Great North Run.
Anyone out and about on Sunday morning in either Catterick Garrison or Lower Wensleydale would have seen the world famous RAF aerobatic team, the Red Arrows.
After a spectacular flight over the Tyne Bridge opening the Great North Run, the team chose to pass over Catterick Garrison, the home of the British Army in the North of England. Continuing south, the whole team, flying in close formation, chose the small Lower Wensleydale village of Thornton Steward as a turning point for the last leg on their homeward journey back to base in Lincolnshire.
Led by Yorkshireman Squadron Leader Tom Bould, their transit formation unusually contains ten aircraft – nine of the display pilots plus Red 10, the team’s supervisor, who also provides the commentary once on the ground. It is a spare aircraft in case of a mechanical failure and usually carries the team’s photographer.
Flying low, they were clearly visible to anyone curious enough to glimpse upwards.
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