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The Red Arrows (Hardback)

A Pilots’ Perspective

Aviation > Aircraft Aviation > Pilots Aviation > Reference Aviation > Royal Air Force World History > UK & Ireland

By Jarrod Cotter
Imprint: Air World
Pages: 248
Illustrations: 64 colour illustrations, 60 mono illustrations
ISBN: 9781036116637
Published: 30th November 2025

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Displaying since 1965, for many decades the RAF’s Red Arrows have entertained and amazed millions of people around the world with their breathtaking formation aerobatic skills. Familiarly known as the Reds, during those years the team has risen to the pinnacle of excellence and has gained universal acclaim.

Officially called the Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team, the Red Arrows have performed their combination of close formations and precision flying, often with their trademark Diamond Nine shape, thousands of times across the globe. Indeed, by the beginning of the 2023 season, the Red Arrows had flown almost 5,000 displays in a staggering fifty-seven countries. Not for nothing is their motto the French word Éclat, meaning ‘brilliance’ or ‘excellence’.

In The Red Arrows: A Pilot's Perspective, the renowned aviation author Jarrod Cotter brings together former pilots to write about what it is like flying precision close formation aerobatics in a fast jet. Featured in this book are pilots from the Red Arrows’ home county of Lincolnshire to lands as far away as New Zealand. There are also contributions from a former Red Arrows pilot who flew on the last year of the Folland Gnats and the first year of the BAE Systems Hawk. Another pilot whose stories are related here was on the team for the glamourous 50th display season, but who remembers only too painfully the tragedy of the accidents in which several members of the team died.

The Red Arrows: A Pilot's Perspective is packed with scores of contemporary and historic images from both inside and outside the cockpit, including many dramatic air-to-air scenes. It also features team portraits of the pilots.

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About Jarrod Cotter

Jarrod Cotter served in the RAF during the 1980s and 1990s. In that time he experienced the change from front line Cold War operations with the RAF Germany Harrier Force to the then new operational conflicts in the Gulf region with Tornados from RAF Brüggen. Specialising in the aerial photographic reconnaissance role, he worked on the HS Harrier GR.3 and Panavia Tornado GR.1/1A, working on Nos IV(AC) Squadron, IX(B) and 14 Squadrons. Following his time in the RAF he become a professional magazine editor with Warners Group Publications in Bourne, Lincolnshire, and went on to become the Deputy Editor of FlyPast magazine, the launch Editor of Aviation Classics and the Editor of Aeroplane Monthly. He now enjoys work as a freelance author, which allows him the opportunity to carry out detailed historical research. He is the author of Living Lancasters (Sutton, 2005), Battle of Britain Memorial Flight – 50 Years of Flying (Pen & Sword, 2007), the Avro Lancaster Owners’ Workshop Manual (Haynes, 2008), the North American P-51 Mustang Owners’ Workshop Manual (Haynes, 2010), the Bristol Blenheim Owners’ Workshop Manual (Haynes, 2015) and the Sopwith Camel Owners’ Workshop Manual (Haynes, 2016).

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