Platinum Jubilee Fly Past
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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.....
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Red Arrows 2022 MOD Press Release explains a lot ( Jackon...)
All RAF and services were brilliant today & it's only day one ! of four.. TFC
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Full Red Arrows Jubilee weekend and full Jubilee Flypast - info pack ;
Hi again ,
Full Red Arrows Jubilee weekend and full Jubilee Flypast - information here ( Notams , Timings, Rehearsals, NATS ) ;
https://www.military-airshows.co.uk/...lypast2022.htm
https://www.military-airshows.co.uk/...hedule2022.htm
Enjoy :-) TFC.
Full Red Arrows Jubilee weekend and full Jubilee Flypast - information here ( Notams , Timings, Rehearsals, NATS ) ;
https://www.military-airshows.co.uk/...lypast2022.htm
https://www.military-airshows.co.uk/...hedule2022.htm
Enjoy :-) TFC.
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Was with the hoardes in St James Park and can attest it looked absolutely brilliant from there, with the "70" superb.
Interested that a Rivet Joint could be spared, considering how busy they must be at the moment. And 2 Voyagers, come to think of it.
Interested that a Rivet Joint could be spared, considering how busy they must be at the moment. And 2 Voyagers, come to think of it.
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Originally Posted by Jackonicko
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).
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Originally Posted by Wycombe
Interested that a Rivet Joint could be spared, considering how busy they must be at the moment. And 2 Voyagers, come to think of it.
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Originally Posted by Stu666
Of the three Rivet Joints we have, I believe one is currently in the USA undergoing a refit/deep maintenance and has been for some time. Don't believe it is due back anytime soon, so all the more remarkable one was spared for the flypast.
Thank you to the engineers who made this happen
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Originally Posted by Dave Roome
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.
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I watched the RAF fly past here on Sky News, first came the rotary types - but where were the Chinooks? Agreed the flip-floppng of the director from one formation to another didn't help but I would have thought the Chinooks desereved attention. Otherwise a great effort - by the RAF, not Sky News.
Those banging on about Hew Edwards might remember the very knowledgeable contributions of some years ago by Julian Tutt. Tutt was a former RAF Regt officer who was once the Queen's Colour Bearer for a tour on QCS.
I understand that he might have had some issues with the BBC and don't know where he is now (somebody said local radio in Bath).
Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton, who is very experienced in Royal issues, was a good choice o comment on the Trooping.
Pity there were no tanks in the parade to rumble over the silly animal rights protesters but the Met was swiftly on the case!
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I understand that he might have had some issues with the BBC and don't know where he is now (somebody said local radio in Bath).
Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton, who is very experienced in Royal issues, was a good choice o comment on the Trooping.
Pity there were no tanks in the parade to rumble over the silly animal rights protesters but the Met was swiftly on the case!
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Originally Posted by Cortisol Depleted
I thought Huw and the were visuals out of synch? He may have been looking at what he correctly identified but the director was doing other things.
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I noticed (looking at the ADSB feed) that when the fast jets came over the coast one of them turned back / away... I can't fathom why... none seemed to be missing, but then why would an extra one have been sent!
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Seriously, chaps - HE was sitting in a windowless room, with a list of aircraft provided by the RAF and filtered by a producer, with monitors showing five or six different camera angles, while a director made independent decisions on which camera view to broadcast, and echelons of aircraft came overhead at 200 knots. He possibly had no idea what the broadcast output was showing at that moment. And he's a TV personality, not ex-aircrew or a spotter. He'd been live for over two hours, on what may well be the biggest show of the year, with a guest in the studio to engage with.
It's probably not as tough as flying an inverted Buccaneer at 20 ft around the Glens, as you gents have all done, but it's not easy; and using this error to slag off the BBC tells more about your own political agenda than it does about HE's ability.
It's probably not as tough as flying an inverted Buccaneer at 20 ft around the Glens, as you gents have all done, but it's not easy; and using this error to slag off the BBC tells more about your own political agenda than it does about HE's ability.
Originally Posted by DaveO70
I noticed (looking at the ADSB feed) that when the fast jets came over the coast one of them turned back / away... I can't fathom why... none seemed to be missing, but then why would an extra one have been sent!
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Originally Posted by DaveO70
I noticed (looking at the ADSB feed) that when the fast jets came over the coast one of them turned back / away... I can't fathom why... none seemed to be missing, but then why would an extra one have been sent!
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