King’s Birthday Flypast

[Sallyann1234]

A great display but It really needed XH558

[ORAC]

Video….

https://twitter.com/nicholadrummond/...HhlFHGKbTPQr_A

​​​​​​​RAF Typhoons form the Royal Cypher C R as they fly over Buckingham Palace today after the King’s Birthday Parade.

[sagan]

Originally Posted by SilsoeSid

Don’t you mean Tw@s ?

That was clever

[Abbey Road]

Originally Posted by Sallyann1234

A great display but It really needed XH558

Needed? Really?

Can you not just let go of the thing? 🤦

[Salusa]

Originally Posted by Compass Call

Why do people insist on using the '@' sign before names? Didn't they learn how to write in English when they were at school?

I guess the same way Able, Baker, Dog and Easy et al did all those years ago.

Modern times.

Not saying I disagree with your intent though...

[SLXOwft]

Only got to see the Hercs, by a stroke of luck they were crossing the M25 to my left as I was crawling through the Wisley junction roadworks on the A3 heading towards the Great Wen, made my day better having missed the grand tour on Wednesday.

CC, in Orac's defence she/he was merely reproducing MoD's text from tw@tter where the @servicename are urls to the services own pages, so blame MoD PR or tw@tter's early adopters.

[old,not bold]

Originally Posted by ORAC

How it was - 1953 vs 2023….

The 1953 pilot list has a very impressive tally of medals; mainly WWII and Korea, I guess..

[Fonsini]

What an air force we had in 1953, impressive.

[chevvron]

Originally Posted by SLXOwft

Only got to see the Hercs, by a stroke of luck they were crossing the M25 to my left as I was crawling through the Wisley junction roadworks on the A3 heading towards the Great Wen, made my day better having missed the grand tour on Wednesday..

I must have seen them a couple of minutes later; they must have passed overhead Fairoaks then headed off towards Farnborough (possibly Odiham too?) and I glimpsed them through the treetops just south east of Chobham about a mile away.

[Timelord]

I notice that various messages from CAS and other VSOs re the fly past talk about HMK as “ our Commander in Chief”. I never heard this usage “in my day”, the monarch was “Head” of the armed forces. Did I just miss it, was there a formal change or, as I suspect, is it just creeping Americanisation?

[SpringHeeledJack]

All the helicopters turned left direct to Biggin, then SW from there to the M25 - got a good view of them heading to Biggin from Addington Hills where, after a last minute decision, I belatedly (and somewhat breathlessly) arrived to look north across a hazy Sarf Lunnun.

Could see all the helicopters, the BBMF and the Hercs fairly well, bigger stuff was a bit vague which surprised me and don't think any of us half dozen people who had gathered at the viewing point saw the F-35 and Typhoon formations at all, I certainly didn't - Sparrow's smoke made them stand out OK.

See the P-8 went south to Dorking, then west towards Guildford, all at around 2000' - must have looked quite impressive!

By chance I was in the Surrey Hills and the P-8 did indeed skim along the North Downs at 2,000ft and at a good rate of knots and both looked and sounded impressive. The choppers still held their display positions and groupings and flew E-W just South of the North Downs and it was quite a sight to behold. Top marks for holding their positions for so long.
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[Anilv]

would have been grand if they had included a BAE146....CR probably would've teared up.

Anilv