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  As Scotchie says, it was booked as a flypast although I know a lot of people thought there was going to be a full display. All the roads around Dover with a vantage point were packed with cars along the verges.
  
  From the Red Arrows website:
  
  "The Team also complete many flypasts each summer as they transit from display to display. The Red Arrows' display season generally begins in May and finishes in September each year, and the Team are unable to perform flypasts outside this period. Flypasts, with very rare exceptions, are permitted only when the Red Arrows are already in transit close to where the flypast is required. They are not programmed to do flypasts that involve a considerable deviation from the planned route because this would incur extra fuel and aircraft operating costs."
  
  La Patrouille de France were right behind them. The RAF and the French airforce share the red, white and blue colours with the order reversed, and I was amused to see that the jet exhaust trails were coloured in similar reverse fashion.

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