• Three spectacular displays by the Red Arrows (Friday to Sunday).
• The Royal Navy’s Black Cats helicopter display team (daily).
• The Typhoon Eurofighter – whose deafening engines can power it to reach 36,000 feet in less than two minutes (Friday to Sunday).
• The Vulcan XH558, the “warrior queen” of the Cold War, which returned to flight thanks to a massive fundraising campaign (Saturday, Sunday).
• Four high-performance Russian Yakovlev aircraft (daily).
• The King Air Be200 monoplane (daily).
• The Hawk T1, used by the Red Arrows for many years and now the display craft of the Number 4 Flying Training School (Thursday, Friday, Sunday).
• The AB412 Search and Rescue helicopter (daily).
• The RAF Falcons parachute display team (daily).
• The Guinot Wingwalkers – the world’s only formation wing-walking team (daily).
• The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, comprising a Lancaster bomber, five Spitfires and two Hurricanes (Thursday to Saturday).
• The Blades – former Red Arrows pilots performing amazing manoeuvres in two-seater aircraft (daily).
• The Royal Marines beach assault (Saturday, Sunday).
• The Red Bull Matadors, two pilots in Sukhoi 26 aircraft whose displays include flying towards each other at up to 400mph (Saturday, Sunday).
• The Swift Aerobatic Display team, consisting of the Swift glider, the Pawnee and the Twister, with their signature manoeuvre the “roll on tow” – in which the glider flies upside down while on tow (Saturday, Sunday).
• The mighty twin-rotor Chinook helicopter – which can carry 55 troops or 10 tonnes of equipment (Saturday, Sunday).
• A host of great Second World War aircraft including the B17 Flying Fortress Sally B, the last of its kind to remain airworthy in the UK (Saturday, Sunday); the Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk fighter (Saturday, Sunday); and the P51 Mustang and legendary Spitfire taking to the skies together (Saturday, Sunday).

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