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Old 29th Nov 2013, 16:42
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US teams are more about the showmanship, the pilots and crews, they are to boost recruitment to the services. The Blue Angels web-site has mug shots of the team. Seems clean-cut identikit lantern jawed college kids get to be the pilots and diversity tends to be in the Enlisted ranks. Meme is that anyone can do this, just visit the Navy recruitment office

Red Arrows are the best at the flying display. Generally used to promote the UK, rather than the armed forces alone. In this example they appear to be trying to flog UK built aircraft, Typhoon and the new Hawk.

UK also have beautifully maintained fleet of WW2 machines.
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