Black Knight Posted August 18, 2015 Share Posted August 18, 2015 and probably not be repeated anytime soon. 18 Spitfires and 6 Hurricanes will take to the air and 'patrol' over Kent and the Battle of Britain Memorial to commemorate the Battle's ''hardest day'' Although they'll divide into 3 sections of 8 they'll be taking off from Biggin Hill at approx 1pm http://www.kentonline.co.uk/folkestone/news/look-to-the-skies-as-41777/ 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Rogers Posted August 18, 2015 Share Posted August 18, 2015 Takeoff at 1pm, great gives me time to get the shopping done this morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smiffy Posted August 18, 2015 Share Posted August 18, 2015 Just had 7 Spits & a Hurri fly over, in 2 4-ship formations. Bloody marvellous. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaw Posted August 19, 2015 Share Posted August 19, 2015 I wonder why the group that flew to Portsmouth did not overfly Tangmere? It was an eminent BoB fighter station, and responsible for the air defence of Portsmouth! John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Knight Posted August 19, 2015 Author Share Posted August 19, 2015 As I understand it this flypast was brought together rather quickly with only short notice, perhaps they didn't get clearance to fly other than their main course. The air routes of [southern] Britain are rather crowded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel Foster60 Posted August 19, 2015 Share Posted August 19, 2015 Does anyone have any photographs please? Nigel (used to live in the South East) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpha Delta 210 Posted August 19, 2015 Share Posted August 19, 2015 Does anyone have any photographs please? Nigel (used to live in the South East) What about these? (They're not mine.) http://forums.airshows.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=69025&view=unread#unread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel Foster60 Posted August 20, 2015 Share Posted August 20, 2015 Thank you, the photographs are very good, I remember being at Biggen Hill in 2000 on the 60th anniversary, quite a day. Nigel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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