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Old 26th Jul 2009, 15:53
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BBMF Lancaster....

flew past my window about an hour ago... very pleasant surprise.....

apparently it was off the Bradfield, wherever that is!
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Bradfield, Berks? (Just west of Pangbourne).

It also did a low-level circuit at 'Model-Mania' at Cholsey, between Didcot and Benson at around 1440. It takes a lot to distract me from the last lap of an F1 Grand Prix with a British driver about to win, but that certainly did.
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The flying programme is detailed here:
Battle of Britain Memorial Flight - July 2009

But nothing provides an answer to why it should have overflown Sandhurst..? At that time it should have been several hundred miles north.
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indeed... was no more than a couple of miles away and very low level...
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I was at the FAST museum at Farnborough airport when it did a low fly past around 1530. No idea why?
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Flypast at the War and Peace Rally

I was at the War and Peace Rally at the Hop Farm in Kent yesterday and the Lancaster made a brief flypast/display....
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Well it made a nice surprise for me and the volunteers at the FAST Museum, would like to see more please FAB ATC.
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Fitter2 - and from Cholsey she went to the Vachers' airday at N Moreton. Top of Cholsey Hill was the perfect vantage point for the whole thing!
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