Red Arrows leader blazes a trail for Yorkshire – The Yorkshire Post says

The singular honour of leading the legendary aerobatics unit has now fallen to Tom Bould, a Bradfordian whose childhood obsession with speed has been spectacularly rewarded.

But the playground flight of fancy of piloting a stunt aircraft at 800mph belies the groundwork he has had to put in behind the scenes. For it was not dreaming but a degree in aerospace engineering from Manchester University, and deployments with Typhoon jets to the Falkland Islands, Malaysia and the United Arab Emirates that got him where he is.

The Red Arrows is as evocative of the RAF as were the squadrons of fighters that defended these islands 80 years ago. Long may their they continue to fly the red, white and blue, especially over the White Rose county.

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