BIA DC-3 last flight from LGW
I I was Ramp Dispatching a Departure from the South Pier when this occurred.
Passengers were boarding and whilst I was aware they were going to do a 'flypast' the actual event was 'spectacular'. Passengers just stopped and 'followed' the aircraft as it 'roared overhead. The Passenger standing beside me kept saying 'Oh my God' is an ever higher voice until the Aircraft was past the Terminal.
All the BUIA/BIA Captains were characters, one allegedly doing his Gardening in his Uniform because he didn't want to ruin his own clothes, another had a habit of signing any loadsheet that happened to be on the first desk he passed resulting in occasional embarrassment for Load Control. During my time all the Captains were 'Veteran' Aviators and all the F/O's were newly minted youngsters and sometimes you got the feeling the Captains acted towards them more like pupils rather than qualified pilots