Trying to persuade a mate to come and will go onto the pier, Beachy a possibility but maybe ground level a better idea.

Will be in Eastbourne on the front somewhere, close to whichever pub we are in at 2pm...

You just know the assembled news crews are going to phuq their coverage up with idiotic commentary and hyperactive editing...

dead_pan,

....and you just know the whinging and moaning about it will precede it...

Latest Update from Duxford-Dakota takes offs at around 15.24.

Airborne
 

BBC News now live

Have a look at what G-AOEI has drawn in the sky on adsb just east of Duxford! Not sure why the track stayed up when I clicked on G-GGEM!

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Any idea where the two Hurricanes that just flew NE near Sudbury, Suffolk, were from? The Dakotas went through 10 mins earlier.

So....who of the gathered at Eastbourne found the sweet spot of the flypast and where was it ? Pier ? Beachy Head ?

Sadly it wasn't the pier :(.

Great view BUT they were just a bit too inland where as many people were expecting to have them come down parallel to the beach and over the pier before turning at Beachy Head.

Definately Beachy Head, they come directly over the top, which was exactly the route as planned and published in the NOTAM etc, so don't know why people thought they would be taking a different route?......plus you could see them coming from some distance away from up on the Head. Seriously large number of people up there though...!!

The USA putting up a Herc and Osprey formation over Duxford was superb.... Like 14 ish of them.

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Dakota heaven by Tony Taylor, on Flickr

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Dakota heaven departure day one by Tony Taylor, on Flickr

Could have done with being further west along the front than the Band Stand but still pretty impressive and handy for the previous pub and the next one...

I gather two were hors de combat at Duxford, lost count of how many actually took part. + 2 x P-51 (over the top of us), 2 or 3 B-18, 3 AT-6, a Cessna Caravan and one of the Dunkeswell sky-diving Beech 99s which was a surprise.

Any photos of the flypast from Beachy Head ? The sound must've been glorious. What happens now with the gathering the Daks ? Do they return to Duxford for a while, or disperse to whence they came ?