Platinum Jubilee Fly Past
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Great flypast especially the 70. Just wish they would give the Guards a proper drill rifle. Those short rifles look awkward.
Sadly I'm the only house with bunting and flags out where I live.
Sadly I'm the only house with bunting and flags out where I live.
On ADSB it was interesting to watch the various elements leave their holding points at exactly the right time to slot into the stream in the right place, like assembling a jigsaw. Congratulations to all concerned in the parade and flypast. Wonderful music too.
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I'm glad that with all the rules and regs of the day that nobody switched off any part of the display, particularly the BBMF.
Only 3 posts before the whining about the commentary starts. Are the members of the OFC slowing down a bit? "Chunter chunter, Raymond Baxter's day, grumble grumble, harumph!"
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The formation flying was excellent and, having been very closely involved with several other major flypasts, I am also very well aware of all the hard work by the groundcrews, ATC and other agencies that made the event so impressive. All credit to them, but it's the great British public who are poorly served by our public service broadcaster, who HAVE done it well in the past (more recently than Richard Dimbleby, who I don't remember commentating on any flypast, even the 1953 Odiham one) but who seem no longer to care about accuracy - a disservice to those who worked hard today to produce the spectacle that it was.
Did I count nine re[eat nine Reds? I thought they were a little down on members at the moment.
And Met, did a cracking job, didn't we?
And Met, did a cracking job, didn't we?
All things considered, I think the OP and Chertsey had a narrow escape.
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Why didn't they make Roome for someone who knows about such thing? Dave?
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Well I dont get it. Like many we studied the zoomable maps to see a fly past........2 aircraft went past over the route at Chertsey in Surrey. A flock of helicopters then went sounth of the route by some 2 to 3 miles, disappointing the crowd that had gathered on the playing fields directly below the flight path. Given the lack of accuracy one can ony believe Ukraine would be in danger if we sent our flyboys.....
The failure to issue actual maps showing where and when different elements were going to disperse - and their subsequent tracks - meant that it was always going to be a bit hit and miss what (if anything) you would see unless you positioned yourself on the run-in, up the Mall, or immediately behind the Palace (say in Grosvenor Gardens).
I'm glad that my other half suggested the latter - we had a great view.
We were glad that there were nine reds. Impressed by the rock solid '70' formation. Surprised to see six Lightnings in the air at once. And delighted to see one element flying past in such a 'Swift and Sure' manner.
I'm glad that my other half suggested the latter - we had a great view.
We were glad that there were nine reds. Impressed by the rock solid '70' formation. Surprised to see six Lightnings in the air at once. And delighted to see one element flying past in such a 'Swift and Sure' manner.
I see that the Reds reduction from nine to seven has been admitted, but not explained:
"In 2022, the Red Arrows are performing aerobatics with a seven-aircraft formation, while the team’s major national flypasts, such as those marking official Jubilee events in London, are carried out using nine jets."
"In 2022, the Red Arrows are performing aerobatics with a seven-aircraft formation, while the team’s major national flypasts, such as those marking official Jubilee events in London, are carried out using nine jets."
I watched from a corner of a wheat field in East Anglia, with no one else in sight. The countryside looked beautiful, and whilst the FJ crews would have been 100% faocussed on station keeping, maybe the odd soul in a heavy would have looked out and have been reminded what a wonderful country they are tasked with defending. The sub-formations were spaced out by 2 minutes of so, so possibly not as overwhelming as at the Mall, but the 70 was well done. Kept on thinking what a great effort by the techies, particularly to get so many Hawks into the air.....