RAF flypast online heads up

I hope that for anyone on the forum that missed the program and wishes to install the BBC iplayer on their system that the following link proves to be helpful : http://iplayerhelp.external.bbc.co.uk/help/about_iplayer/systemreq

Tommy

The RAF flypast will be available on BBC iplayer for the next seven days.

Tommy

From what I saw of it, the BBC suffered what you might call the usual problem of covering a flypast.

Namely that the director didn’t “time” each aircraft/combination before cutting to the next in the stream. Also a little bit of lacking in spacial (spatial depending on your spelling) awareness of some aircraft appearing to be out of sequence, when in fact they weren’t. Resulting in showing some of the stream out of sequence which threw the on-screen timing off for the next section.

Likewise during the WW1 segment after the flypast, not knowing what exactly was going on, resulted in missing the british aircraft being bounced by the German aircraft.

I’m not intending this to be a Bash at the director, filming flypasts and mock engagements, can’t be easy at the best of times and if it’s not something that’s done regularly, it would be even more difficult.

The one thing that it did do was show how much I missed the days of Raymond Baxter covering such events.

All over now. Nothing more to see.

As I seem to be the only one who saw it (not being at home near a TV) it appears it was much better than the TV version in not having any commentary!

It was also shown in full on the BBC news site, which did have commentary although not Dan Snow..

John

Not in my territory (Sweden) either – what’s up with the BBC, aren’t we foreigners allowed to see such secret aircraft?

“Media not available in your territory” 🙁