The Red Arrows will be performing a display to celebrate their 60th birthday this weekend and on the way to the event in Blackpool, the pilots will be taking a route through Oxfordshire today.

The display, which has been dubbed the Wendover Flypast will begin at RAF Odiham and travel with flair through various counties across the UK, and finish at Blackpool Airport Transit where they will perform their breathtaking display on August 10th and 11th.

The RAF pilots twist and turn whilst in the air, trailing red, white, and blue smoke behind them.

The journey is due to start at 4.45 pm on Friday, August 9 and reach its destination at 5.29 pm.

Blackpool Airshow will take place on August 10 and 11 but the Red Arrows will be in the skies from August 9 as they make their way through Oxfordshire.

It’s important to note that these timings and routes could change because of the weather or for another reason.

On August 9, the Red Arrows will be travelling from RAF Odiham to Blackpool Airport Transit and they’ll do the Wendover Flypast, according to the Military Airshows website.

They will fly over Moreton-in-Marsh in the Cotswolds near the Oxfordshire border at 4.59pm.

The route that will be taken by the Red Arrows on Friday, August 9

The aircraft are then scheduled to fly over Worcester at 5.03pm. 

The Red Arrows, formed in 1964, act as the face of the Royal Air Force.

Stationed at RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire, the team is made up of pilots, engineers and essential support staff with frontline, operational experience