They have beeb flying for a couple of weeks now, they will only be flying 8ships until the end of the season as there are only ever 9 pilots in the team each year. I am very lucky in the fact that I watch them every day when they are practicing. Jay was lucky enough to be with the Reds for 3 years many many moons ago.
The formation they are flying is Missing Man and Red 4 is the position that is not been flown in, this is a fromation that is always flown to commerate either a pilot lost or during Battle of Britain Memorial flights etc.