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scudpilot
26th Jul 2009, 15:53
flew past my window about an hour ago... very pleasant surprise.....
apparently it was off the Bradfield, wherever that is!:ok:
Fitter2
26th Jul 2009, 16:50
Bradfield, Berks? (Just west of Pangbourne).
It also did a low-level circuit at 'Model-Mania' at Cholsey, between Didcot and Benson at around 1440. It takes a lot to distract me from the last lap of an F1 Grand Prix with a British driver about to win, but that certainly did.
HEATHROW DIRECTOR
26th Jul 2009, 17:18
The flying programme is detailed here:
Battle of Britain Memorial Flight - July 2009 (http://www.raf.mod.uk/bbmf/displayinfo/july2009.cfm)
But nothing provides an answer to why it should have overflown Sandhurst..? At that time it should have been several hundred miles north.
scudpilot
26th Jul 2009, 18:32
indeed... was no more than a couple of miles away and very low level...
LAS1997
26th Jul 2009, 18:52
I was at the FAST museum at Farnborough airport when it did a low fly past around 1530. No idea why?
allyn
26th Jul 2009, 19:41
I was at the War and Peace Rally at the Hop Farm in Kent yesterday and the Lancaster made a brief flypast/display....:ok:
LAS1997
27th Jul 2009, 12:00
Well it made a nice surprise for me and the volunteers at the FAST Museum, would like to see more please FAB ATC.
airborne_artist
28th Jul 2009, 11:21
Fitter2 - and from Cholsey she went to the Vachers' airday at N Moreton. Top of Cholsey Hill was the perfect vantage point for the whole thing!