ALL THE ACTION from the Friday at the MIDLANDS AIR FESTIVAL at RAGLEY HALL! ✈️ 🚁 | 30.05.2025

A brilliant Friday spend at this years Midlands Air Festival, with some impressive acts kicking off the 2025 Airshow Season in style!

Displays included the world famous RAF aerobatic team the Red Arrows proudly impressing the crowds at their first display of the 2025 season, having just returned from overseas pre season training in Greece, the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight in the iconic Lancaster Bomber with two Spitfires from RAF Coningsby having passing their Public Display Authority last week, and one of the fighters carrying a fitting tribute to Sqn Ldr Mark Long, a flypast by a pair of RAF Typhoons heading to the English Riviera Airshow, and Red Bulls Aerobatic Helicopter BO 105 C of the Flying Bulls, flown by none other than Felix Baumgartner, who set the record for the highest skydive, highest manned balloon flight, and breaking the sound barrier in a freefall!

There were some other great acts to open the first of this brilliant three day airshow, including The Commemorative Air Force welcoming Douglas R4D ‘Ready 4 Duty’ conducting her ‘Navy to Victory’ tour, which is currently seeing the aircraft work a 12,000 mile, 12-week round trip from Texas to Europe as a charitable activity to honour the service and sacrifice of American WWII sailors and airmen for VE Day and the 80th anniversary of the end of WWII. We also see Historic Helicopters RAF SAR Sea King and a brand new barnstorming demonstration as well as lots of other exhibits and model aircraft flying to enjoy. The organisers did well to deliver a great show in spite of the nagging wind and light rain to start, but thankfully the weather improved through the afternoon!

CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Introduction
0:24 - Airshow build up and helicopters landing
8:51 - Model aircraft flying
15:37 - Red Arrows Flypast
16:25 - Captain Bruce's Ballistic Barnstormers
18:48 - Cassutt Racer
21:57 - RAF Tutor Display
26:03 - x2 RAF Typhoon flypast
26:27 - Red 10 arrives
28:46 - BBMF Lancaster and Spitfires
38:38 - Pitts Special S1-S
44:40 - Historic Helicopters Sea King departs
45:35 - Flying Bulls BO 105 C
49:25 - Douglas R4D-6S Skytrain 'Ready 4 Duty'
53:11 - Historic Helicopters Sea King arrives
55:00 - Gyro Air Display
59:52 - Bell 47 helicopters depart
1:02:37 - Steve Carr, Largest radio controlled Yak-54
1:06:46 - RAF Red Arrows
1:19:48 - Rolls Royce Heritage Flight Spitfire PS853
1:25:45 - Evening departures and arrivals
1:27:25 - RAF Falcons parachute display team

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