Nice one, RAFAT!

[Mogwi]

Originally Posted by Video Mixdown

As a matter of interest, what would SOP be for a vertical abort in those conditions? Turn onto divergent tracks and join up again when on top?

Not under the LHR approach!

Mog

[CAEBr]

Originally Posted by NutLoose

Surprised to see the Reds all appear to have a back seater in them on that film, I do hope it was the Blues.

Not a navigator then

[Geezers of Nazareth]

Originally Posted by ancientaviator62

Just found my pic of us on the way to the assembly area for our GW1 flypast. The weather does not look too promising and the VC10 and the Tristar are just visible down in the weeds'

Hang on a minute ... I think I was on that one! Flew in a 4-ship of C130s from Lyneham to Wattisham where they desperately tried to get the 4th one into the flypast, but 'no go'. Launch from Wattisham into the hold area to join-up with everything else, but the vis was not good enough, so went to 'plan B' (which didn't involve the C130s, booo!), so the C130s returned home. The only fixed-wings which made it into London were a TriStar and two Nimrods. Happy days. Despite all the bouncing around at low-ish level the only person who was sick was the RAF PRO guy!

[diginagain]

Originally Posted by ancientaviator62

Just found my pic of us on the way to the assembly area for our GW1 flypast. The weather does not look too promising and the VC10 and the Tristar are just visible down in the weeds'

I was in the rotary element, and TBH at the time I'd rather have been anywhere other than grobbling around trying to keep tabs on the section somewhere ahead of us.

[Diff Tail Shim]

Originally Posted by Geezers of Nazareth

Hang on a minute ... I think I was on that one! Flew in a 4-ship of C130s from Lyneham to Wattisham where they desperately tried to get the 4th one into the flypast, but 'no go'. Launch from Wattisham into the hold area to join-up with everything else, but the vis was not good enough, so went to 'plan B' (which didn't involve the C130s, booo!), so the C130s returned home. The only fixed-wings which made it into London were a TriStar and two Nimrods. Happy days. Despite all the bouncing around at low-ish level the only person who was sick was the RAF PRO guy!

You can see sunshine. You couldn't see sod all above the base on Saturday. I know, cos the rain falling from it was soaking me.

[Diff Tail Shim]

Originally Posted by oldmansquipper

VMC Redefined? 😉 Well done. 🫡👍🏼🇬🇧

The tail up from Red 6 is my mate. His first public display. Honoured to see him fly from below. Bombing the F out of something, take risks. Flying over mates with any flying safety risks in peace time? Wise men do not take risk. End of argument. Its Green Park, not Goose Green.

[ancientaviator62]

Geezers,
I did all the flypast flights with W/C P.B in XV 205 .

[Asturias56]

"You can see sunshine. You couldn't see sod all above the base on Saturday. I know, cos the rain falling from it was soaking me"

In S Oxon you couldn't even see the base when the helicopters went east - it was completely obscured - viz was less than a mile in mist and rain - hairy stuff

[42go]

Not under the LHR approach!

Unless your name is Andy Penswick, of course.................

[Top West 50]

A brilliant photo - well done Cpl Dye!

[chopper2004]

I was stood at Fairlop Water to see the rotary wing element fly first then good to see then Reds (awful weather an dplayed havoc on my sensor)




Well done Reds...

and Long Live The King

cheers

[Video Mixdown]

Originally Posted by Mogwi

Not under the LHR approach!
Mog

Understood in general, but LHR seem to have knitted a 20 minute hole into arrivals and departures at the planned flypast time. There was nothing there to hit.

[Geezers of Nazareth]

Originally Posted by ancientaviator62

Geezers,
I did all the flypast flights with W/C P.B in XV 205 .

I was in XV195. As far as I can remember, '205 was the lead aircraft in the C130 formation, followed by '195 and '306.

[Specaircrew]

Originally Posted by Video Mixdown

As a matter of interest, what would SOP be for a vertical abort in those conditions? Turn onto divergent tracks and join up again when on top?

Casting my mind back to a Flypast Wx abort over London during RMT 2000 (with 2 F3s on my wing) we climbed to a sanctuary level squawking emergency and got vectored East! Fortunately the 4 other flypasts that week went without a hitch, the biggest problem being my overtake speed on the Lancaster as we on topped Horseguards!

[beamer]

Putting aside the fly past……what about the 3 cheers for the King and Queen on the Palace lawn…..fantastic !

[ancientaviator62]

Geezer,
yes we were the lead a/c with PB who was the boss of 242 OCU at the time if memory serves. I was the ALM Leader on 30 at the time but I have no idea why I ended up crewing with what presumably was an otherwise all OCU crew !

[ancientaviator62]

42togo,
I assume you are referring to the 'lower and lower' flypast which Andy decided was not a good thing so lit thee burners and RTB ASAP !

[Krystal n chips]

Originally Posted by 42go

Unless your name is Andy Penswick, of course.................

You would have thought demonstrating a Lightnings climb would have been....appreciated. Knew him at 4C's btw

[langleybaston]

Originally Posted by aw ditor

ISTR the Flypast in 1953 (all 600!) was across The Mall rather than down/up it'. Good positive clearance' of weather too, post Cold Front? Suspect it was a coldish Warm Sector 'for most of the morning and early afternoon but, perhaps our resident Met Man could do an aftercast' please? All recalled distantly from the memory of a 16 year old Programme Seller' at the time.

AD.

There was a nasty cold trough giving a nagging northerly flow down east side of UK, and a polar low slow moving in the unstable air near the Frisian Islands, so a succession of showery troughlets spinning around just in the right place to hit Kent, Essex E Anglia and London.

I hated polar lows, but weather satellites eventually helped identify and track the blighters as they wandered southwards down the N Sea. Very few surface obs to detect them in those days ....... ships, rigs etc.

One Christmas c 1981 I helped my battered reputation no end by being about the only forecaster in NATO to go for a major snow event getting as far inland as the Clutch ............ a satellite pass picked up a developing Polar Low miles from any obs. A foot of snow at Rheindahlen.

Bound to get one right every now and then!

Your PM box appears to be full

[Mogwi]

Originally Posted by langleybaston

One Christmas c 1981 I helped my battered reputation no end by being about the only forecaster in NATO to go for a major snow event getting as far inland as the Clutch ............ a satellite pass picked up a developing Polar Low miles from any obs. A foot of snow at Rheindahlen.l

Ah yes, I remember it well! I drove back from Güt on Christmas Eve 1981, with my family and worldly goods, in 2 cars, through fog followed by snow, to the channel ports. Caught the ferry by the skin of my teeth and arrived in Folkestone in a complete white-out but just made it to Epsom before the roads finally closed.

Mog