The RAF Red Arrows used a nine-aircraft formation to demonstrate the Red Arrows's flying skills, the rocket aerobatics has about 30 shows a year and travels abroad to perform, in addition to British air shows and major events, royal Air Force Red Arrows attended the Zhuhai Air Show.

According to British sources, the Red Arrows attended the Lille air show on August 29, when a Hawk plane struck a bird during a demonstration flight, there was a loud bang, and the plane was covered in blood. There was a huge gash in the Hawk canopy, and there was no sign of the bird, because the bird had been shattered by the impact, all that remains is blood. From the scene photos can be seen, when the airport has a large number of birds in the activities, European airports do not drive the habit of birds, this“Hammer got hammer.”.

Although the Hawk suffered a bird strike and a huge hole in the canopy, the pilot made an emergency landing because the impact did not impact the canopy, so it doesn't have too much of an effect on the pilot's line of sight, so you can make a crash landing. Every year, there are many accidents of birds colliding with aircraft. In addition to fighter jets colliding with birds, commercial airliners also collide with birds. There are flights of Russian airlines that have just taken off and were hit by birds, no one was killed when the airliner made an emergency landing after a bird struck its engine in a cornfield near the airport.

Bird activities have a great impact on flight safety, so controlling birds near airports has become a difficult task, although there are many ways to drive birds, including setting up bird nets around airports, etc. , but in Europe's various airports, the basic free movement of birds. In fact, in addition to land-based airports will be affected by birds, aircraft carrier combat readiness missions, there will be the impact of birds, which will pose a threat to carrier-based aircraft take-off and landing and flight. Birds do not fly fast, but when they collide with high-speed aircraft, they will still cause huge damage to the aircraft, so flight safety can not be ignored.