Royal Wedding Flyover

[RickH]

Today, Kate Middleton achieved every young girl's dream: she married the balding, 28-year old son of divorced parents who lives at home.

On top of that, they had the reception at Grandma's house !

William's skills as a SAR pilot and his obviously excellent taste in women...

What he said !......

[Dan K]

...the allies would have one eventually without the USA...

Perhaps... but why stop at just one?


Have a great weekend everybody!

[PeterA]

Turned on the TV this AM just in time to catch 'The Royal Kiss' between Kate and Wills, but more impressive than that was the flyover of the mall leading to Buckingham Palace by the BBMF with the Lanc in the lead, PS915 (a later model Spitfire) on left wing and Hurricane LF363 on the right wing! They showed plenty of shots of them, banking away afterwards, and then cut to some modern day Tornadoes and such doing their flybys.....great way to wake up on a Friday morning! Anyone else catch it?

Mark

The PR XIX Spitfire appeared to be PM631 in its new livery follwing major refurbishment.

PeterA

[tom d. friedman]

got a glimpse of it on the world news. at least it was film worthy!!! just about the rest........ zzzzzzzzzzz snore!! i still thought the fly over was cool though, & a fitting tribute to britain's ww 2 vets who probably won't be around for the next extravaganza!!

Last edited by tom d. friedman on Fri Apr 29, 2011 8:19 pm, edited 1 time in total.

[corsair166b]

"The PR XIX Spitfire appeared to be PM631 in its new livery follwing major refurbishment."

PeterA

Peter, you may be right, but there was some speculation on another forum about which Spit it was and they seemed to think it was the one I mentioned. I dunno. Too far away to see it (about 7,000 miles) and did'nt catch its serial number on TV.....I DO recall seeing one or the other of those Griffon engined birds up at RAF Coningsby doing a runup with a slew of men all over it to keep the tail grounded and when it was at full power the noise would rival any jet-I had my hands over my ears!!

Anyway....this thread deviated from its original intent in some areas.....did'nt mean for it to become a Royal and UK bashing thread for those who have used it that way....but that seems to be the way some forums are going these days.

Mark

[Garth]

As far as the cost of it, I agree that we in the US spend money flying folks around for dumb reasons. If our government felt like hiring the CAf or Berlin Airlift guys to do something, I would not be upset.

Who pays for warbirds to attend military airshows? I'm really looking forward to seeing FiFi and Diamond ... er, Ol'927 at the Andrews AFB/DoD Open House in late May. I don't think DoD allows paying passenger flights from it's facilities ... and would think that in lieu of that there was some kind of payment to offset the costs associated with flying them in (or maybe just performing?)

Also, who pays for the occasional warbird flyovers at military funerals or other military-related events? I remember that there was a B-25 flyover at Jimmy Doolittle's funeral/internment at Arlington, and also that there were warbird flyovers when the USAF Memorial was dedicated a few years back. There was one time when my departure from Reagan-National was delayed due to two P-51s doing a funeral flyby over Arlington as well.

I don't see any issue whatsoever with the BoBMF doing this sort of thing. At the very least the associated expenses can be written off as training/currency flights. But I WAS disappointed that the XH558 didn't make an appearance as well (I think she's still down for maintenance, right?)

[22B]

We had a pretty good day in the Commonwealth today. Some of you didn't see it that way. So, how was your day in the rest of the world?

[Lynn Allen]

We had a pretty good day in the Commonwealth today. Some of you didn't see it that way. So, how was your day in the rest of the world?

Great, some of us here in Texas did watch the Royal Wedding... They do know how to do things right...

[maxum96]

For those that don't want to watch the whole wedding, here's the flyover. Not my video.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4-BkljdFp4

[tom d. friedman]

As far as the cost of it, I agree that we in the US spend money flying folks around for dumb reasons. If our government felt like hiring the CAf or Berlin Airlift guys to do something, I would not be upset.

Who pays for warbirds to attend military airshows? I'm really looking forward to seeing FiFi and Diamond ... er, Ol'927 at the Andrews AFB/DoD Open House in late May. I don't think DoD allows paying passenger flights from it's facilities ... and would think that in lieu of that there was some kind of payment to offset the costs associated with flying them in (or maybe just performing?)

Also, who pays for the occasional warbird flyovers at military funerals or other military-related events? I remember that there was a B-25 flyover at Jimmy Doolittle's funeral/internment at Arlington, and also that there were warbird flyovers when the USAF Memorial was dedicated a few years back. There was one time when my departure from Reagan-National was delayed due to two P-51s doing a funeral flyby over Arlington as well.

I don't see any issue whatsoever with the BoBMF doing this sort of thing. At the very least the associated expenses can be written off as training/currency flights. But I WAS disappointed that the XH558 didn't make an appearance as well (I think she's still down for maintenance, right?)

if your a u.s. taxpayer you pay as well as me!!

[CoastieJohn]

BTW, I saw somewhere he initially flunked his written test but was a pretty decent stick...

His current job is a search and rescue helicopter pilot which here in the UK covers the civil side as your Coast Guard does, wouldn't be doing that unless he was pretty good.

He is a fairly new Sea King Co-Pilot. If he is doing over water search and rescue, he'll gather some great experience and get some white knuckles.

The U.S. Coast is the 5th branch of the U.S. military. It's unique in that it also has law enforcement authority.



One of the best WWII quips......."overpaid, oversexed and over here"

One of the best WWII comebacks......."underpaid, undersexed and under Eisenhower"

[airnutz]

Anyway....this thread deviated from its original intent in some areas.....did'nt mean for it to become a Royal and UK bashing thread for those who have used it that way....but that seems to be the way some forums are going these days.

Mark

Not a bash china, just a friendly ribbing from the colonials.

[Jollygreenslugg]

I just thought it was nice that they were able to have a flypast of the entire RAF for the occasion!

*grins, ducks, runs*

Cheers,
Matt

[pevan10]

Hi, just wondering if anyone else saw something fall out of the Lancaster bomber during the flypast vision. We rewound the footage several times but could not identify it. It looked 'ribbonish'.
Pete

[CoastieJohn]

Hi, just wondering if anyone else saw something fall out of the Lancaster bomber during the flypast vision. We rewound the footage several times but could not identify it. It looked 'ribbonish'.
Pete

Go to Youtube (if you haven't already done so) and type in "royal flyover" to see the numerous clips posted. On one of the vids (below).....the commenters are talking about it. The possibilities are it's a bird strike or something fell off the aircraft (TFOA - Things Falling Off Aircraft). Other vids picked it up too. One commenter mention the BBC footage.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxVo-96atkg