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Battle of Britain 50th anniversary flypast

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Old 1st Oct 2020, 15:31
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Battle of Britain 50th anniversary flypast

Planes TV put the following out on their YTube channel last week:


Back in the days when we had a proper airforce....

Participating aircrew are listed at the end of the video

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I think you'll find that was a small effort compared to this

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The first BoB flypast was in September 1945, and consisted of 300 aircraft.
The 1949 flypast included Hurricane LF363 - I wonder whatever happened to that!
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LF363

LF is still going strong on BBMF.
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Originally Posted by gzornenplatz
LF is still going strong on BBMF.
I wonder how much of the1949 LF survives in today's LF?
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