Alpha Delta 210 Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 Hi all. A great flypast with some rarely seen types. Sorry for the heat haze in some of them! EDIT: They were sharp until I uploaded them to Google Photos! 20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Latinbear Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 Lovely light on those! Looks like the sun came out just at the right time. Outside Buck House it was overcast so (mainly) grey aeroplanes against a grey sky. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
picard Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 Fabulous pic's and no need for apologies at all sir, as these are far better than the BBC's utterly dreadful coverage of The Fly Past in the end, with a idiot director in charge during the event, and it looks like you have far better facilities than the BBC currently as well. He.he Brilliant pic's. Nice one, Cheers 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpha Delta 210 Posted July 10, 2018 Author Share Posted July 10, 2018 Thanks for the kind words, gentlemen. The weather was certainly kind! My favourite is the Tornado 7-ship. Not sure why the other two were out of formation? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOUSTON Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 9Alpha Delta 210.. OUTSTANDING photography. STUNNING shots indeed yes The Tornado formation is SUPERB to see.. maybe the one out of formation wanted to be THE LEADER SO he was just misbehaving..🤭 🤫 good photos..Thank you very much. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpha Delta 210 Posted July 10, 2018 Author Share Posted July 10, 2018 Thanks for the kind words, Houston. I'm pleased you liked them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bentwaters81tfw Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 At least you got some blue sky. I think you must have been a bit close than me too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul J Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 Liked all those Hawks!!! And the Tonkas. Agree about dodgy Beeb reporting showing faces of people we know too well and those we don't oooing and aaahhing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
picard Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 8 minutes ago, Paul J said: Liked all those Hawks!!! And the Tonkas. Agree about dodgy Beeb reporting showing faces of people we know too well and those we don't oooing and aaahhing. Drafting my angry letter to The Telegraph right now, actually, sir. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Latinbear Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 Every flypast I've ever seen on the telly seems to feature more time focusing on the Royals on the balcony rather than the aeroplanes overhead. It drives me nuts. I recall the Battle of Britain flypast in 1990 and the amount of time showing the family instead of the huge formation made me so cross. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul J Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 27 minutes ago, Latinbear said: Every flypast I've ever seen on the telly seems to feature more time focusing on the Royals on the balcony rather than the aeroplanes overhead. It drives me nuts. I recall the Battle of Britain flypast in 1990 and the amount of time showing the family instead of the huge formation made me so cross. It was the same when air shows were shown on telly..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stringbag Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 Am I the only one disappointed by the flypast? To celebrate 100 years of the Royal Air Force surely more of the retired types could have been displayed. There are so many still flying in private hands that aircraft from virtually every decade could have been represented. Imagine a flypast featuring the likes of Bristol Fighter, Hawker Fury, Gladiator, etc. right through to the Typhoon era. A nice touch would have been to include WP903, The Chipmunk that HRH Prince Charles flew. Still flying today. A missed opportunity in my opinion. As for the F35. That should have been left on the other side of the Atlantic. Just my feelings on the subject. Chris. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Latinbear Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 11 hours ago, stringbag said: Am I the only one disappointed by the flypast? To celebrate 100 years of the Royal Air Force surely more of the retired types could have been displayed. There are so many still flying in private hands that aircraft from virtually every decade could have been represented. Imagine a flypast featuring the likes of Bristol Fighter, Hawker Fury, Gladiator, etc. right through to the Typhoon era. A nice touch would have been to include WP903, The Chipmunk that HRH Prince Charles flew. Still flying today. A missed opportunity in my opinion. As for the F35. That should have been left on the other side of the Atlantic. Just my feelings on the subject. Chris. A flypast along the lines of the one you suggest would certainly have been a wonderful representation of the RAF's history but for practical reasons I don't think it would be feasible, at least not over London. Too many risks relating to older aircraft that might not have been maintained to the RAF's standards (the Shoreham Hunter is an example), private pilot qualifications and skills versus private pilots even if they are former military and I am happy to be corrected on this but don't CAA regulations prohibit single engine aircraft from flying over the capital? The Capital Radio traffic aircraft was always a twin. A further obstacle is the complexity in planning a flypast a like yesterday's. Although I have yet to post any images (we were asked not to prior to July 10th) when I was at Coningsby a couple of weeks ago as the Typhoons were assembling for a practise session we had an impromptu briefing about planning for the flypast from OC 1 Squadron, one of his flight commanders and an instructor on 29 Squadron all of whom were involved in the planning process. I wish I had been able to write down all the information they gave us but suffice to say over the course of 25 minutes they effectively conveyed the staggering amount of planning required both in depth and breadth with consideration of every eventuality from weather to technical problems to emergencies, diversions etc etc. Not least of the problems is accounting for the different speeds of the aircraft involved and the tight timings that are required if a flypast is to be presented that looks professional. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stringbag Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 You're probably right in most respects Latinbear, I just feel that much more could have been displayed. The timing to accommodate the widely varying speed ranges could have been managed by the implementation of a holding pattern out of the general area but I guess that had been taken into consideration and subsequently discounted. I still like the idea though. Chris. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpha Delta 210 Posted July 12, 2018 Author Share Posted July 12, 2018 Thanks for all the "likes". It certainly looks like East Anglia had better weather than central London on the day! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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