The Prince was scheduled to leave the Wedding Breakfast around 1530hrs and I believe it was DCINC Ops on a radio that called the SK in.

Make sense?

When we do the Trooping of the Colour flypast, it is normally called in by someone on the roof of New Zealand House or another good vantage point.

LJ

BBMF Lancaster
 

I understand that the BBMF Spitfires and Hurricanes are usually flown by Coningsby Typhoon pilots, but who flies the Lancaster? Do truckies commute in from Brize Norton?

Having done it myself - the pilots normally come from Coningsby, Cranwell or Waddington ( in extremis Marham, Cottesmore or Wittering). You don't want to be too far away as you normally plan a couple of days before and the journey time would be a nause.

LJ

Congratulations to the professional guys and girls from the SAR Force.
It all brought back memories of the flypasts I flew and the difficult timing due to the rather sedentiary speed of my beloved SK.
The secret is to find somewhere close by to, er, lurk (hence...) whilst waiting for the 5 and 1 minute call.

SARBOYS! :D

The internet has all the answers here: BBMF Crews

Captions?......

http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitpic/phot...MYgBdiYpQ4A%3D

:mad:
SW

:=....yes yes you're right....absolutley nothing to do with the flypast but the other wedding threads have disappeared down rabbit holes too :rolleyes:

Mind the veil Pippa, Kate will want it back soon.

Grabbers
Do you have to work hard on your unpleasantness or does it come naturally?

Although he has got a sense of humour, clearly missing from some other posters!

Lanc crew
 

TS, crew were from Waddo, Lyneham & Sleaford tech. Do you think the Nav will get a ribbing for the 'congrats' message on his helmet? :E

Don't know about that, but said Nav should get a Bravo Zulu for spot-on timing.

Sea King ZH540 (a Mk 3A) - flown by OC B Flt 22 Sqn, OC SAR Standards and a couple of the SARF's finest door sliders and crowd wavers;)

Authed to 200ft I believe but flown slightly higher for extra visibility to crowd and TV.

Held at Blackfriars bridge and called in by mobile phone from the palace using Airwave set on the aircraft.

OC B flt's second flight up the Mall, the first was a few years ago taking a SK to land at the palace!

And very well done too. DCO!

I had to laugh when Huw Edwards described the RAF ensign as Prince Williams personal banner! Thought the appearance of the SK was a great touch, congrats to the crew.

Lovely flypast down The Mall yesterday. Nice to see MilSAR doing the do, flawlessly, in the gaze of circa 2 billion. Good work fellas, and lasses Ma'am.

Hopefully the spots of oils-various will come out of PC's dress at the dry cleaners.

As Prince Andrew was shown on the balcony waving to the Sea King, I wonder if it was him who made the phone call?
mmitch.

mmitch read post 101

Ah, you weren't stuck in a hotel overseas like some of us, having to make do with CNN !

"And in the next limo to leave the Buck-ing-HAM Palace is the Queen Elizabeth and the Dook of Edin-BURG ..." :rolleyes:

Point taken, perhaps the BBC coverage was not the worst. However, we had been given full time coverage of posh tottie,( some old some young ) lots of toy soldiers wearing banana republic type military uniforms(some old some young) clergy ditto, and a million or more sad folk looking happy, surely it's not asking too much to train the cameras on some "planes" (some old some young) for more than a few seconds.:*

On a lighter note...

The sight of Pippa bending over to adjust the bridal train outside the Abbey was (in the words of Boris Johnson) enough to make an Arch Bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window.

My oath!