00:30I think the people really, really enjoy them here at the Tattoo.
00:39They get a roar of an applause when they come over.
00:42But I also think one of the things all of Edinburgh, dare I say, everybody in the area
00:46enjoyed.
00:47If you look at the social media posts that come the next day, many come from the Tattoo
00:51or people that were at the Tattoo.
00:54But even larger numbers come from people that were in the area.
00:57And some of the photos are extraordinary from people that weren't even at the Tattoo.
01:00So I think it certainly points to the Tattoo and they know what those flyovers are.
01:05But all the people in the area truly enjoy it.
01:09It's a time on target.
01:10So they know we set the time and they set it in their aircraft.
01:13And then it just becomes almost like any sort of GPS, a time-space calculus that says they've
01:18got to be here and over the target at a specific time.
01:21Should we need to push that time, and there are times when the show starts later or whatever
01:26the case may be.
01:27Then there's somebody on the ground here, some sort of forward air controller that is
01:31speaking to the pilot and saying, you know, time has changed Rolex to a certain time.
01:37So yeah, it's a time on target.
01:39They're very, very precise.
01:41Not that different than what they do on real operations.
01:44Same exact thing.
01:45They've got to be overhead at this specific time.
01:47And that's what they do every single time when they do it for us.
01:51We had a typhoon earlier in the show.
01:54And then we had, of course, the Red Arrows, and now we get to see some of the workhorses
01:59of the RAF come over with an A400M, and I think we have a C-17 coming later in the show.
02:18I've seen them many times, but every time I see them, it's a jaw-dropping moment.
02:24I was up here where we're conducting our interview right now, and I saw them coming across the
02:30Firth and coming up Castle Hill, the Royal Mile.
02:34And then you see the smoke come on, you see them go over, and it's just, yeah, spine-tingling.
02:38It's amazing.
02:45We're off to a great start, in fact, in many ways, exceeding expectations.
02:50These aren't easy things to put on, as many would know.
02:53It's a Herculean effort on so many different levels.
02:56And it's not without hiccups, but if I were to compare this show to the previous two in
03:01my experiences, it's gone incredibly smooth.
03:04That's a credit to all the hard work of the team that puts this thing together.
03:07So we're very, very happy with the start.
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