Platinum Jubilee Fly Past
On a slightly drifting note, during one of the “fill in” bits on TV with Ms Wark, Sir Stu Peach referred to HM as Commander in Chief of the armed forces. Is that right? Is that new? Is that wrong? I have only ever heard her described as “head” which is subtly different.
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Good to see that the Reds came up with 9 aircraft, bearing in mind recent events.....
Glad to see Monty hasn't lost it; references nailed even though he’s on a ground tour!
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My take on it is that the formation flew parallel to, but very slightly north of, the Mall and overflew the wing of the Palace closest to Constitution Hill.
If you look at the two Voyagers' tracks on FR24, from Colchester onwards the inbound track was 236°T to match the orientation of the Mall, so I don't see any evidence of a 3° divergence.
If you look at the two Voyagers' tracks on FR24, from Colchester onwards the inbound track was 236°T to match the orientation of the Mall, so I don't see any evidence of a 3° divergence.
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Airbrake out
I’m sure I recall someone telling me that the disturbed airflow behind the airbrake also helps to make the smoke trail bloom more. Not sure if that’s a genuine reason or not but it seems feasible to me.
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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.
Anyone can read a script out of sync with the video. What's actually required for the job is someone who watches the broadcast stream and knows their stuff. That someone was not Huw Edwards.
Nooooooooo.
It would have been more because he would have been deriving someone who knew how to do it of paid work!!
(And then someone else would have complained about you saying "for free" instead of "free" or "for nothing"!
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It would have been more because he would have been deriving someone who knew how to do it of paid work!!
(And then someone else would have complained about you saying "for free" instead of "free" or "for nothing"!
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Excuse my ignorance, but has any aircraft from the commonwealth air forces ever taken part in one the flypast to celebrate in one of the Queens anniversary's?
Canadian Sabres and Australian Vampires were part of the fly past for the 1953 RAF Coronation Review. The static display also included Australian Meteors and a New Zealand Bristol Freighter,
A list of participants is here: https://www.hampshireairfields.co.uk/nos10.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haEe5KfxvUg
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Did the Kiwi Bristol Frightener fly to UK? Or walk? 🤠
Did the Kiwi Bristol Frightener fly to UK? Or walk? 🤠
there were some great pictures of the 1953 parade in History & nostalgia a month or so back
