the crowds went wild , the programme director fainted , graham was speechless , and lt eagles rn , who had been trying to get into his gazelle for the past five minutes , one foot in his aircraft and the other on the step gave up and just stared as the first of the sixteen aircraft reached that imaginary point in the sky , but the formation didnt dissolve , it curled over in a loop , and then into a barrel roll , all the time being followed by the other fifteen aircraft in perfect formation , and for a further five minutes the sixteen hunters gracefully wheeled around the skies above farnborough , as if bound together by cables , reminiscent of the black arrows in the 1950s and then after the obligatory bomb burst finale , one at a time each pilot did a low/slow flypast in front of the mesmerised spectators , giving them a wave from the cockpit as sally introduced them .