A sensational looking Queens Birthday Flypast (Merged thread)

I’m off to Fairford next Friday for the airshow on the Saturday and have seen on there web site there will be a mass flypass on the Friday does anyone know what time this will be..

Hmmm, “Queen watches Red Arrows flypast”.

I must have missed them:rolleyes:

John

Here’s the highlights from the BBC website:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7454737.stm

By the way, great pictures steven_wh.

Just saw that, I especially liked the Tornado FR.3s…
Well, at least he corrected himself later.

Let’s just say that it was a bleedin’ awful weekend of cricket, and I should have stuck to watching the gliders at WOTG…

Adrian

Just wondering if anyone knows where the three-ships went when the flypast dispersed?

Was playing cricket within blimey-that-glider-was-low of Weston-on-the Green and what looked like two of them went by in the far distance – which ones I couldn’t say, as they really were just two small specks and a fat speck. Heading for Brize?

Adrian

Apparently so, and did you win despite the distractions, I hope you weren’t fielding at slip at the time.

Just wondering if anyone knows where the three-ships went when the flypast dispersed?

Was playing cricket within blimey-that-glider-was-low of Weston-on-the Green and what looked like two of them went by in the far distance – which ones I couldn’t say, as they really were just two small specks and a fat speck. Heading for Brize?

Adrian

Just a nice photo, I thought,so I decided to share. Hope nobody minds.

From Trafalgar Square.

Jay

Anyone know who piloted the BBMF fighters?

Ken.

Queen’s Birthday Flypast

Re: the comment about the Falklands Flypast, the flypast for Mansion House usually goes to the South of Romford (Harrow Lodge Park way). The 1982 flypast went that way (I saw it), as my grandfather had accidentally seen the practice run a few days beforehand 🙂

I went up to London, as Hainault Country Park can be a problem with shooting into the Sun.

Photos here:

http://forums.airshows.co.uk/cgi-bin/ukarboard/ikonboard.cgi?;act=ST;f=9;t=49468

The lone ranger was a Hawk flying slightly North of the main procession some 5-10 mins before the main body

The Concorde/Reds was in 2002 the Queens 50th anniversary of accession to the throne, this pic taken from the recreation ground just off Elmcroft Road, Ipswich

I went to see them, at Westerfield (A village on the outskirts of Ipswich, the flypast goes directly over it, because they go out to the North sea via Southwold, to form up, then head inland, and follow the A12, directly to London). It was amazing, i wish they were lower!. Now, that would be a sight, worth seeing, a few minutes before, i think i saw Folland Gnat, couldn’t tell, it was in the distance. Then the flypast came over, which was exciting. Dodgey Nimrods, Vickers VC10, Boeing Sentry AEW.1 and much more, like the 16 Tornado Gr4’s and 9 Eurofighter’s. Brilliant :):)

I remember seeing Concorde, one year, which i can’t remember. What year was that?. I seem to remember it with the Red Arrows.

I was a little way back from where the BBMF and Herc formations were arranging themselves, the Herc had gained slightly on the Lanc, probably during the turn just north of Witham.
What struck me was how much bigger the Hercules was compared to the Lancaster, it looked twice as big in fact.
It also made me realise that I’d never seen the 2 types in the air before at such close proximity, closer over Terling than you see Sally B and Pink Lady doing their routines at Legends.
It made me wonder when the two types had flown together before like this, I presume they have at some point, possibly for a photo shoot out the back of a Hercules, has anyone ever seen it though.

I wondered whether Markstringer made it to Hainault Forest and what the view was like there, and did you have your pint of Adnams at Southwold Moggy.

Incidentally, the later highlights on BBC2 were much better, complete with sound and they managed to edit it so that the less interested members of the Royal Family weren’t so obvious.
Was Camillas ‘hat’ some sort of new fangled directional beacon by the way.

Some snaps from Northolt, as they turned over the airfield to the NW…..no BBMF or C130 by then. Brought back memories of the big flypast over Abingdon open day some years ago..now that was impressive.

I heard the Typhoons on the radio going back to Coningsby looking for gaps in the cloud to descend for a formation fly through. Did they manage it?

Busy with my village fete today but nice to see the Eurofighter formation pass to the east over Thurleigh heading north. A few minutes later saw the Tornado formation heading back to Leuchars, well done RAF,just wish the BBC would give more coverage to this ,i.e a behind scenes look at all the hard work build up .

Over Ipswich today they were a little further South than in previous years so my vantage point wasn’t that good plus I was facing South and into the sun. The Typhoons were still forming up, somehow I missed the Herc and the two Kingairs

At halton we had no BBMF or red arrows for the flypast but looking at the video a see the red arrows where there

Where were they?

Don’t know what video you were looking at……the Red Arrows are currently on a tour of North America and were displaying at the Quebec Int Airshow this weekend.

The BBMF and the Herc/King-Air formations peel off and head out over North London straight after flying over the Palace, that’s why you didn’t see them at Halton.

Well done Royal Air Force. Less impressive were the royals – not one in the uniform of the RAF.

Of course they weren’t. Protocol of the day made it an army event. RAF uniform would not have been correct.

In my opinion, the Royals were impressive throughout, doing what they do best – being ambassadors promoting all that is good about our military

Well done Royal Air Force. Less impressive were the royals – not one in the uniform of the RAF.

At halton we had no BBMF or red arrows for the flypast but looking at the video a see the red arrows where there

Where were they?

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