Originally Posted by johnnypaveway
...Achieving a superb flypast in marginal wx (when the RN didn't) priceless!..
I don't think it was the rain that prevented the Stringbag-led flypast so much as the low ceiling seen obscuring most of the Shard on the TV coverage. However, I still liked this contribution to the
letters page of today's Telegraph:
SIR – On Sunday, the Swordfish flypast was cancelled because it was raining.
In my day, on the Arctic convoy runs to Russia, we flew off in 60-knot snowstorms in the night, with the ship pitching 20 to 30ft, and rolling 20 to 30 degrees, and we didn’t have a river such as the Thames to navigate by.
Lt-Cdr Bob Selley RNR (retd)
Exeter, Devon