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Date: Wednesday 25 November 5:30PM - 6:30PM

Career highlights:

• Finding out that I’d been chosen to join the Red Arrows. It was quite possibly one of the best things I’ve ever been told!
• My fast jet training. It was challenging but really good fun. I used to love doing the low level stuff flying.

‘I was thrilled to find out that I’d been chosen to join the Red Arrows. I walked into the office where my Squadron boss and Station Commander were waiting and saluted, then the Station Commander said: ‘You’re going to have to tighten up that salute when you join the Red Arrows, Kirsty.’ I couldn’t believe it, I was really excited.

‘I’ll be training with the team over the next few months and will start display flying in 2010. The formation flying that the Reds do is based on a skill that you get taught early on in flying training. It’s is often used to get a group of aircraft from A to B, especially fast jets. The difference here is that we build in some pretty daring aerobatics! Also, you’d usually only have four aircraft in formation on operations whereas here we have nine.

‘In my previous role I flew the Tornado GR4 which was brilliant. I did quite a bit of travelling in the first couple of years, the squadron did several exercises in America and Canada and I did two operational tours in Iraq. It can be a little bit daunting at first, but once you get in the air and you’re talking to the guys on the ground, you realise you’re helping them to feel safer. It’s great to be able to offer our troops that level of support.’

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