'The Red Arrows Perform the Gypo Break', watercolour, 73 x 53 cm.
During their display, the Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team, 'The Red Arrows' split into two formations - one called Enid and the other Gypo. For me, the most exciting part of the whole display is the Gypo Break, where these four aircraft fly directly at the crowd, rolling around each other. A second's pause is followed by this explosive break, where it appears to the crowd that the aircraft can't avoid hitting each other! Of course they do not...
This painting was sold by commission.