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They're the elite, daring combat veterans, flying on the edge

of what's possible.

They're called, the best aerobatic display team in the world.

On reflection, what we are doing is extraordinary, but it's just feels

absolutely normal now.

For the first time, they've allowed cameras to follow them

for an entire year.

As a new leader takes charge in one of the most challenging periods

in the squadron's history.

It's a year of triumphs, of tragedy...

On Tuesday, one of the squadron's aircraft crashed at RAF Valley.

...and of courage.

We have to move on and the best way to do that,

is to get on with our jobs.

But ultimately, it's a year of breathtaking,

awe-inspiring flying.

These are the Red Arrows.

The Red Arrows have just begun their six months of winter training

for the 2018 display season.

Weather and divergence has just run through, we are on two- two

right hand, surface weather is 26015 to 17.

Martin Pert, Perty, has recently taken over as team leader.

Becoming Red One is a privileged moment of my career.

I'm obviously exceedingly proud, but now I'm into the role,

it's all about responsibility that I have, taking on this iconic

part of British history.

Typhoon, go. Eight. Nine.

Two new pilots have joined the team.

John Bond and David Stark, call signs, Red Two and Red Three.

Swan, go. Two. Three.

Excitement and nerves all in one, because it's a completely new skill

that we are going to have to try and learn.

Pilots usually spend three years with the Red Arrows, each year

moving formation position, and performing increasingly

difficult manoeuvres, so months of training are needed

before the team can fly together in their famous

nine aircraft formations.

The training we have here is very stepped approach

to how we get to those nine jets.

What I tend to focus on for about a month,

is getting our new boys up to speed.

So, myself, Red Two and Red Three, fly as a formation,

just to build up the very core.

Its simple things like turning left and turning right.

Today, we will add Four and Five on board and that us, as a core

of what are known as Enid, after Enid Blyton's Famous Five.

We'll train together for about three months before we add

any other aircraft.

Up to now, Perty has been teaching the two new pilots the basics

of close formation aerobatics.

Take off, go.

Today for the first time, second year pilots Dan Lowes

and Chris Lyndon-Smith will be flying outside them.

Three, two, one.

Hack, welcome. Here it is then.

First trip for Enid.

As far as hazards go, it's probably weather is the biggest hazard for us

this afternoon and we will still make a call about whether we are

going to go, even unto the point of taxi.

And if it's just not fit, we won't go.

We need to be not below 1000 feet for all the manoeuvring we do

this afternoon, and I'm not going to go if we're scrambling

around with a 1,200 foot cloud base.

I'm sure it will be intimidating having the second years

on the outside of us, and I'm sure we will tense up for the first time

as soon as we feel them on our shoulder,

and I'm sure we'll feel the eyes in the back of our heads.

We will check in on stud 19, at minute one-eight.

It going to be a mental challenge for the first sortie.

It is going to be unnerving, it's going to be a degree

of pressure not only because the person being outside

there with their experience and their scrutiny, but the fact

that there is another red jet out there as well,

that we don't necessarily want to hit at this stage.

And the weather conditions don't make it any easier.

Coming left, now.

It's getting dark and high winds are causing turbulence.

Holding the bank, now.

They were challenging conditions for the first five shift.

Bondy and I thought it was bumpy, but we were swiftly told by Four

and Five that we hadn't seen anything yet.

It's the sort of turbulence you definitely have a seat belt

on for in an airliner for example.

So trying to formate in that kind of turbulence is just adding

to their complications, because they're not now sure

whether they've just over egged it on the stick,

or they're feeling the chop.

Just to prevent fatigue, who have something called

an "open up and relax". It just provides a little opportunity

for Four and Five to give us in the air debrief points that we can fix

for the next 15 minutes.

Outside me was Smiley, and I've got to be a stable platform for him,

so he has the absolute right to tell me that I'm not in position,

or being a bit too violent with the controls.

Right hand, break.

Break. Breaking now.

After their dark and bumpy flight, everyone's in need of a cuppa.

It was awesome, it was great to get airborne as a five ship,

good to have Four and Five outside of us.

Good for the experience, they're going to be whipping

us into shape. I think it's learning the skill for the first time

and then having to repeat that, the same time, every time

which completely, a different way of flying an aeroplane.

It gets harder and probably exponentially harder,

because I will be asking them every day

to be to be doing something new, so just when they think they've got

on top of it, we'll be on for the next formation,

we'll be on to the next position. Good to know. Good to know.

More than 100 engineers keep the Red Arrows flying.

Landing gear slick down.

Each year, ten of them are selected to travel in the back seats

of the jets to service them when they land away from home.

This elite team is known as Circus.

And the candidates for 2018 have just been announced.

Attention RAFA, all Circus to the sign up area, that's

all Circus to the sign up area.

They'll be led by junior engineering officer Lissy Mason,

call sign, Circus One.

So, who's being flying before? Who's had a trip?

I did it practice trip in Spain back last year.

Yeah, you did, didn't you? So, who's never been?

I've never been in one. At all, nothing? Never.

What about light aircraft, anything?

I've done light aircraft and helicopters. Cool.

I've just been on holiday.

Looking forward to it? I am, yeah.

What are you most nervous about, though?

What if you need a wee, do you know what I mean?

I just really don't want to throw up.

Yeah, that's the main one.

Make sure you've got sick bags with you if you're not sure.

Again, well done.

But the hard work starts now. Cool.

Rose Buchanan is the only perspective Circus member

who isn't an engineer.

See you in a bit.

She's part of the photographic team, which films the Reds

every time they practice, or display.

The pilots use the videos to assess their performance,

but it's also needed to assist investigators

following any accident.

The rest is just waiting.

I suppose this is sort of the less glamorous side

of the job, but it's good fun and it's practice for the display

season, so this is kind of what I'll be doing for the whole year,

so it's good to get as much practice in as I can.

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There were a couple of times I've had to have a little panic

with myself because you just can't find them, and there's been times

where you're filming and the whole time, they're just up in the clouds,

so you're just waiting for them to reappear, but eventually they do.

Reverting right, now.

The pilots have a set way they like things filming especially

when it comes to different manoeuvres.

Every now and then they'll call up as well and say,

just for this one can you do this differently, or can we have it a bit

more zoomed out, a bit more zoomed in. It all depends

on what they've done that day, so they keep us in the loop

of what exactly they want.

Rose's job is about to get busier, because so far only the five jets

of Enid formation have been training, but soon,

the remaining four jets will be taking to the air.

We've got Gypo formation down here, Six, seven, eight and nine,

who themselves make up the more dynamic portion

of the second half of the show, who can train as a single entity.

And when we are ready to put it all together, to make the iconic

diamond nine, we will simply move Gypo up into formation

just behind Enid there, making that trademark diamond nine

formation that the Red Arrows are famous for.

Within Gypo formation, we have two guys who fly the synchronised

opposition manoeuvres, who are known as the synchro pair.

A synchro pair perform their hair-raising routine in the second half

of the Red Arrow's displays,

executing extreme low level rolls and high G turns.

30 feet, let's say and...

Toby Keely is just starting his second year with the Reds,

and has been selected to join Si Taylor in the synchro pair.

So, if you have an emergency that you need to...

I will call the 65 through and I will take us on crowd.

Likewise, if you have an emergency down the line that needs you to fly

through, if you need to escape, then just escape off a crowd.

If you have an emergency that requires...

In a way I feel like I've joined the team from scratch again

because I'm learning these new procedures as well,

just like the new guys are Reds Two and Three this year.

So, yeah, it felt like a first day at school.

Toby has just five months to learn all synchro's daring manoeuvres.

He starts with the basics, flying as a singleton with synchro partner

Si in his back-seat.

As a first year in Enid formation, Toby never performed below 300 feet.

Now he will be attempting aerobatics with only 100 feet

between him and the ground.

And, pulling up!

You're really aware of the ground is coming up, really quickly.

When I was 60 degrees nose down, you just have the extensive ground

rush coming up to meet you, you think, "Oh, crikey!"

The only thing that's going to save me now is just completing the loop.

It does become comfortable but the first time you to it,

down to 100 feet, it's pretty exciting.

It is great fun.

The amount of G-Force, you pull a lot more doing the synchro flying,

so it's a bit more hard work in terms of physical flying but,

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He's not scared me yet, that's good. Let's hope it stays that way.

It's been a good day actually.

We got quite a bit of training done considering the weather

was quite poor. Ready for a beer.

20 miles away, the prospective Circus members

have come to RAF Cranwell, they're here for tests

to check they're fit to fly back seat in the Red Arrows.

First stop is the air crew medical centre.

For photographer, Rose and engineer, John Bayliss, the biggest hurdle

isn't proving they're medically fit, but proving they can actually

fit into the Red Arrows Hawk jets.

John is six foot, six inches tall.

I've been up for a back-seat in a tornado, and I got

up in that OK, that's a lot bigger cockpit.

So, with the Hawk cockpit, I'll be a little bit iffy

about it...

...if I can fit in or not.

So if you can get your back straight against the boards, legs

shoulders width apart...

A range of measurements are taken. John can't exceed any of them.

John's thigh length is near the safety limit.

All done, if you pop your trainers back on for us...

But he passes with a centimetre to spare.

Absolutely everything's fine. Happy days.

At five foot 3, Rose has the opposite problem.

But some pre-test stretching may help.

I need all the height I can get, so it'll be worth it.

The medical is very nerve-racking.

It's the one thing you can't do anything about.

You can't change who you're, you can't change what size

you're or what shape you're.

I just have to remember that at the end of the day,

there is nothing I can do about it, so if it doesn't work out,

it doesn't work out.

You need to kind of be in a hamstring stretching position

and get back as far as you possibly can. Fantastic.

Arms out in front of you, index finger halfway to your thumb.

Everything's fine.

I need those arms nice and stretched out.

Until the functional reach measurement.

It's a fail.

So, functional reach we need to redo.

Which one is this one?

Instant fear was going through my mind at that moment.

Panic, I did panic a little bit.

Bring your shoulder blades back. Keep bringing them back.

Let's gets just your left...

To keep her place in the Red Arrow's Circus,

Rose needs to somehow stretch an extra three centimetres.

It's that side there.

You have to have your shoulder blades on those pads at all times

when they're measuring it.

If you just don't get your body position right, or you don't reach

out far enough, you're not long enough, obviously.

Click this one, just with that shoulder blades.

That side should be in.

OK, relax breathe out. 74, fine. You had me worried then.

Sometimes happens when people push them all the way back,

they don't realise that they're pushing

it too far and just need that little extra stretch.

The gap was tiny. It was so borderline, it was really scary

but when they said, all good I was like, wow.

I can relax now.

Instant relief, it's like someone had just taken three tonnes

of weight off my shoulders.

Absolutely fine.

Back at Scampton, Si has spent a week flying in Toby's back seat,

familiarising him with ultra low level aerobatics.

The time has now come for them to fly as a pair.

Toby will have to execute his first heart pounding opposition pass.

So the next steps are, we start pointing at each other

down the runway, so that'll be pretty exciting.

Toby and Si will fly head on with a closing speed of 800 miles

an hour, and cross just metres apart,

then immediately perform a difficult four-point roll...

...crisply hesitating every 90 degrees.

The first step is to attempt the opposition pass

without the barrel roll.

Should be a good one, this one. It's not a bad job.

Thinking back to last year when I was in Toe's position,

it's definitely a point of pride where you think right now

we can start pointing at each other as now, that you were doing

some pretty awesome, pretty cool stuff.

The new Red Ten, team supervisor Adam Collins will be monitoring

safety from the ground.

This sort of flying, your senses are on overload.

Flying down at 100 feet, pointing towards another jet that's coming

towards you at 400mph and you're doing 400mph,

it's just really exciting.

What shocks me most, was the closing speed, this a little dot

in the background with a bit of smoke behind suddenly becomes

very big and rushes past.

It does make you jump.

It's just excitement, it's adrenaline, ground rush, speed rush.

It's awesome.

But this is only the first step.

Next, Toby has to attempt combining the pass with

the barrel roll.

Back at RAF Cranwell, Rose's trials aren't over either.

The prospective Circus team now face the swim test.

They need to prove they're good enough swimmers to survive

an ejection over the sea.

Again, if they fail they can't become members of Circus.

I'm not the best swimmer, but I've been practising lately,

so I'm hoping that it will pay off as I'll be able to get

through it, so, yeah.

You must swim 100 metres without rest,

using any front or side stroke.

After that, you get out of the pool, unassisted,

without the use of the steps or anybody else.

Are we happy with that?

Once we jumped in, with the camos, I must admit it did feel really heavy.

It does make it a lot more difficult.

Let's go, then.

They must swim four lengths.

But after only one, Rose is struggling.

Everyone else was so much further ahead and I did start to panic

in my head thinking, "Maybe I'm not going to finish this."

Team Sergeant Will Alan turns back

to give Rose some encouragement.

Will, my hero.

When Will came back, I was a little bit embarrassed

at the start because I thought, "No, I can't be pulling people back,

this isn't good, this is bad," but actually, he was just really

calm and just helped me control my breathing and he gave me

that little bit of a booster to start thinking, you know,

"You'll be fine."

She's finished her swim, but Rose still has to get out of the pool

in her wet, heavy flying suit.

I finally made it out.

The relief was just unreal.

Yeah, I was really, really happy.

I am so bad at swimming.

Rose has risen to the challenge...

But Toby now faces his moment of truth...

...combining a low-level head-to-head pass with a barrel roll.

New Synchro pilot Toby has been practising

low-level opposition passes.

Now he's taking the massive step of combining it with the challenging

four-point barrel roll.

This time, instead of just flying past each other, just before we're

going to cross, we then pitch up and I'm go into a four-point

hesitational roll, in a synchronised fashion.

Nice and snappy four-point hesitational roll,

and then keeping it level down the line.

That's the plan for today.

And pulling up.

Tobes has already done four-point rolls at low level as a singleton.

There is now the added pressure of there being another jet

coming in the opposite direction,

so it will be a good one for him to get into.

But, as with anything, you do it once and then every time after that,

it gets easier.

Cos is joined by the Red Arrows big boss Andrew Keith.

Known as Boomer.

He's come to watch Toby's first attempt at this manoeuvre.

Toby and Si break to opposite ends of the airfield.

Pulling 6G, they climb 2,000 feet in just two seconds.

Roll and dive.

Accelerating to 400mph.

Pulling out, Toby must align himself on the opposite side of the runway

to Si.

Si's job now is to fly straight.

Toby's job is to miss him.

&

Toby's first four-point roll is too smooth and continuous.

He's not happy.

So, they reposition.

&

Not bad. Made good progress, actually.

You know, self-awareness is key for all of our, you know, pilots,

but he's very self-aware, very self-critical,

which you should be, but he's picking up errors.

Good progress, good learning, so we're in good shape. It's very good.

Yeah, that was... That was just awesome.

What a privilege to be able to do that and get paid for it.

Certainly, adds an extra element to it, rolling down the runway

this time, after pointing towards Si.

That was an awesome thing to go and do on a Monday morning.

Thank you. How was that? Yeah, great. First full runs done?

Yeah. That was great. Yeah, it was looking good, actually.

The OC was out with me. Was he? Yeah. Awesome. Good work. Thank you.

Yeah, yeah, it's good.

It was all fine, actually.

Toby did really well.

He did really well, so this is what the tempo will be like now.

So three trips a day just fine tuning this such

that we can actually then be really consistent

and then that then becomes the norm.

What we are doing there becomes dead easy, so that all the other

more advanced stuff then becomes the bit that tests you.

The front five jets of Enid have also begun practising

increasingly advanced manoeuvres.

After some sorties, the Enid pilots can be observed gathering

together and performing a strange ritual dance.

Bent double, they waddle backwards and forwards...

...while staring at one of their jets.

Occasionally, they place random items of their clothing

on the ground.

In fact, this strange activity is fundamental

to the Red Arrows' astonishing precision.

This is the references we use when we're flying,

so what they're actually looking at is the (IFS crest

of the at the front of the intake there.

We try and put the wingtip in the middle of that.

And then on the back of the wing, you can maybe just see

the white flap jacks as well.

On the furthest one in, you see it's red

on the inside and we actually try and make the letter A there.

We will always line up two separate parts of the aeroplane to make

sure that we are in the right position or we can also judge

our length, so being too short or too long,

so it does look symmetrical.

By visually aligning agreed reference points, the pilots know

they're flying in precisely the right position.

If they all fly to maintain the exact same references, no matter

what manoeuvres the leader makes, the formation will move as one.

For different formation shapes, they simply

align different references.

But when you're upside down at 400 miles an hour in turbulent air,

implementing the theory is a little more tricky.

The strange game the pilots rigidly play ensures their positioning

is inch perfect.

The plan is to keep your feet wide so you're not looking...

You just look at the reference, walk down the reference

until you think you're in the right place,

then you put your item on the floor,

and then from there, we now look and see where everyone else's is.

There you go.

And I'm actually about a foot long, so I now know on the next trip

that I need to probably be a foot further forward,

than I'm sat and then the formation should look symmetrical either side.

The other four pilots have reached a landmark sortie

because the synchro pair are going to be joined by final-year

pilots Mike 'Bogeye' Bowden and Matt Masters, to create Gypo

formation, named after a previous team leader.

This is the first full Gypo flight, so it's the first time we've gone

up as a four, we've got beautiful weather outside,

so we are going to make the most of it and go and enjoy

ourselves on a Friday.

Slope on, go.

Synchro roll, go.

These four pilots perform the most technically difficult manoeuvres

in the Red Arrows display.

For the first time, they're attempting a manoeuvre...

Go!

...where the four jets break...

...then approach head on.

They cross and two jets perform rolls,

while two pull into vertical climbs.

The weather conditions seem perfect.

But on their third run Bogeye is blinded by the low winter sun.

I had the sun right into my eyes and it's really hard then to pick

out the aircraft ahead and the distance that you've got from him.

So he breaks away.

For everything that we do, we've always looked at the safety

case of how we escape from the manoeuvre, the safest way

to go. Particularly for those opposition passes,

we need to know where the other aircraft are going to go,

if there is more than one aircraft,

so we always put ourselves into that safest bit of sky.

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Regularly making these split-second life or death decisions is part

of the job.

First trip, first time we've been up as a four, it's always

a bit of a nervy affair.

As you can see, with the sun behind us, you're having a similar

issue to what we had in the air.

The sun, looking into the sun, visibility was pretty poor,

so that adds a different dimension to the whole formation,

but it was a great flight all around.

Straight on Twitter. There you go. Get it on Twitter, yeah!

The 100 Red Arrows engineers are called the Blues,

and traditionally, all the engineers vote for the Blue of the Year

who's awarded a special privilege.

This year's winner is Tom Hammond Hayley, an armourer.

His job is to maintain the ejector seats.

The ejector seat is sort of there as a final escape call

for the pilot if he ever gets into trouble.

And they're basically putting their life in your hands,

I suppose, every time they go flying, because if they need

to eject, they're basically counting that you've done

the job right. Yes, a big responsibility,

but it's something that you get used to, I suppose.

Maintaining ejector seats is a highly-skilled job

because they're complex and potentially very dangerous.

A tenth of a second after the pilot pulls the ejection handle,

an explosive detonating cord shatters the canopy.

More explosives drive the seat up telescopic rails, then rockets

thrust it 200 feet into the air and the parachute opens.

Although Tom can fix an ejector seat, he's now got to learn to use

one, because his reward for winning Blue of the Year

is going back seat on a Red Arrows training sortie.

Everyone's really happy and excited for me, so I've got my girlfriend,

and my mum and dad coming up on Friday,

so, yeah, fingers crossed they will enjoy the experience

as much as I will because after all, they'll be getting nervous

watching me strap in and going flying in a fast jet.

If you just want to sit on the seat...

Red 5, Lowesy, is giving him his training.

That's it. And you do that again. Sweet.

The bottom line is, don't say the word eject

unless you're actually going to do it, so people will say the E word

if you need to leave the aircraft in a hurry, that kind of thing,

don't actually say it, because that sparks the heckles up on people.

Now, if you're in the back and for any reason the pilot

in front is unconscious or has been killed from a mid-air collision,

or a bird has come in and knocked them out, You will then communicate,

"I'm ejecting," right?

You put your head back of the seat, push your shoulder blades back

into it as well, push your heels into the rudder pedals,

and then put two hands, one hand with the other one covering,

on the ejector seat, and then three, two, one, pull the handle.

You will then leave the aircraft and then the process

of ejection will happen. Awesome. OK? Yeah, nice one.

No worries. Thanks.

Tom's going to be flying with the team leader, Perty...

Morning, Sir. Are you all right? Hello. How are you doing? All right?

Not bad. You? Good to see you. Have a seat. Cheers.

Have a seat. Here it is then. Day's come about already.

I know. Well done, all right?

The main aim of this sortie is for you to enjoy yourself, OK?

It is a reward for all your hard work last year.

We'll get the scary stuff out the way first.

Once we are airborne, the feelings will be a bit different.

Just keep your hands either on your knees, or up on the grab

handles, and that will just make sure that you're not

going to conflict with that stick, because I will feel any movements...

Yeah. That you make onto that.

If we're going to pull some G, I'll tell you it's coming on.

You just want to try and...

It's almost like sitting on the toilet.

Tense your head, but breathe normally when you can, so...

You know? So you do need to breathe through all this because otherwise

you will just pass out. Good to go?

Yeah. Enjoy. All right. I'll see you for the briefing.

Take care. Cheers.

Next is Tom's G-suit fitting.

All right, Tom, if you could just tell us when you feel firm

pressure on your stomach, please, mate?

It inflates in high-G turns, squeezing his legs and stopping

blood rushing from his brain.

How does that feel? It's not going to be any tighter, is it?

Without the suit, he may blackout.

Nice and snug? Yeah.

As he is getting kitted up, Tom's parents and girlfriend, Ellie,

arrive at Red Arrows headquarters where Tom's name has been added

to the Blue of the Year roll of honour.

Oh, isn't that lovely! "Blue of the Year, awarded annually..."

But just as Tom's scheduled sortie time approaches,

a bank of fog rolls in.

Oh, look who it is! Hey!

Good to see you. OK? Made it!

What's happening? You're not going until half two?

Don't know yet, Mum. It's on weather hold at the minute, so... Oh.

Keeping fingers crossed that I'll just go up as soon as possible.

Oh, OK.

Only the big boss, Boomer, can make the final decision

about Tom's flight.

We're sort of on the cusp.

Don't know if we're going to make it, which is frustrating.

The weather only gets worse.

Tom. All right, Sir? How's it going? Sorry, it isn't good.

We've hung on until now, but it's just not really fit

to go flying. The weather's not going to allow us.

I'm really sorry, but just today it isn't going to happen.

We are going to try and get you back up at some point, probably this time

next week, if you're around.

Yeah, that be great. Yeah. All right. Keep in touch.

All right. See you in a bit. Yeah, bit gutted.

I was really looking forward to it.

But chance is still there and the wing commander and squad

leaders said that they will get me back up for another training sortie.

If it's Monday, hopefully, my parents will still be up,

and my girlfriend will be around, so fingers crossed can

get flying then. Wait and see.

It's a blow for Tom because he's got a very special surprise planned

once he gets airborne.

The weather is forecast to improve, so hopefully soon,

he can reveal his big secret.

After a tense weekend watching the weather forecast, Tom's parents

and girlfriend have returned to Red Arrows HQ.

A synchro pair have already managed to launch a sortie,

perfecting the opposition barrel roll.

So all looks good for Tom's flight.

Let's hope the weather holds out this time.

We've been kind of looking at the window, haven't we, all morning?

Yeah, checking the weather. It seems better now. It is.

We actually saw them up there flying, so that's a good sign.

There's a few sort of nasty-looking clouds on the horizon,

but if all goes to plan, then we'll take off in an hour

and a bit, so, yeah, best go start getting ready.

But just as the bell is rung to call the pre-flight briefing,

the clouds open.

Welcome, Tom, visitors.

This is the briefing for what is going to be for us slot four.

We are going to brief now, but the weather's looking

a bit unfit at the moment.

We'll wait for this rainfall to come through, but we won't launch

until it's fit for us to actually do some work underneath.

The weather deteriorates so much the synchro pair are forced to land.

Can someone just have a look at the rainfall radar to see

how we are doing on that? Tom, you might as well grab a seat.

Just make yourself comfortable. Sir. Stressing even more.

All right?

I think I'm jinxed apparently for the weather.

All they can do now is wait for a possible break in the rain.

Finally, there's a glimmer of hope.

Good to go? Yes. We're going to go. See you in a bit.

Sick bags. Definitely taking them.

Right. Come on. Let's go.

Oh, look at him go!

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Holding the banks now.

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\ Blimey. I

Wow, that was awesome.

\ That's so good. I

Tom's engineer friends have gathered to welcome him back.

And they have a surprise planned, but not for Tom.

Cheers. How was it? Awesome. Loved it. Cheers. Awesome.

Well done, Tom. Cheers, sir. Thanks very much. Well done, you survived.

Good work. Cool.

Everybody ready? Big smiles.

Ells? Yeah? What's that?

There's not many things perfect in this world,

but you definitely are one of them

and you've made me the happiest man alive.

Will you marry me?

APPLAUSE

How did you keep that quiet?

Congratulations. Thanks. Welling up myself, there. I could see him...

Congratulations. Thank you so much. Thank you.

Managed to keep it a surprise? Yeah. Congratulations.

Congratulations. Cheers, guys.

How could you do that to me? I...

I can't...

Did you not know about that? Not at all, no.

Next time, bad weather pushes the team weeks behind schedule.

The longer we sit on the ground, the more we just sort

of tread water.

Into the water when you're ready.

Everyone heads for emergency survival training...

ii

And the new pilots attempt the most dangerous and daunting manoeuvre

of them all.

You have no idea how it's going to turn out.

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