Diamond Jubilee flypast as seen from the Spitfire & Lanc

[anonymous-user]

Heres one for you plane boys,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIfqS3lgKKk

[davepoth]

Here's another. Aren't little digital cameras awesome?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&amp...

[Eric Mc]

Great view from the rear turret.

[anonymous-user]

Think Aunty Beeb may have got something right in the whole shebang, both vids in one.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18334001

[Zaxxon]

Spits don't sound quite as wonderful from inside the cockpit do they.

[Simpo Two]

djstevec said:

Think Aunty Beeb may have got something right in the whole shebang, both vids in one.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18334001

More of a bomb-aimer's view, but you wouldn't expect the BBC to know the difference. 'Ooh, plane, big plane, gurr!'

[nellyleelephant]

Proud to say that our company supplies the Battle of Britain team their flight helmets!

[Eric Mc]

To be honest, I couldn't see too much wrong with the comments on the video clip. It's a pity they didn't show these shots live yesterday.

[rsv gone!]

My dad flew a shackleton in the Coronation flypass. He is ancient, though. (Same age as Queenie).

[Eric Mc]

rsv gone! said:

My dad flew a shackleton in the Coronation flypass. He is ancient, though. (Same age as Queenie).

Now THAT was a flypast -

http://www.britishpathe.com/video/coronation-fly-p...

600 aircraft took part.

[HoHoHo]

Zaxxon said:

Spits don't sound quite as wonderful from inside the cockpit do they.

I bet they do when it's actually your hand on the throttle

[Genelec]

Why did they not have these shots wirelessly for the show? Seemed to miss a trick there, would have been great!

[miniman]

Does anyone (Eric?) know the significance / relevance of the pair of King Airs escorting the Dakota?

[marshalla]

miniman said:

Does anyone (Eric?) know the significance / relevance of the pair of King Airs escorting the Dakota?

http://www.raf.mod.uk/news/archive.cfm?storyid=218AF4AD-5056-A318-A832D588538B9CA7

[miniman]

marshalla said:

miniman said:

Does anyone (Eric?) know the significance / relevance of the pair of King Airs escorting the Dakota?

http://www.raf.mod.uk/news/archive.cfm?storyid=218AF4AD-5056-A318-A832D588538B9CA7

thanks

Seemed a little odd as to me it means Wichita Kansas and Beech.

[Eric Mc]

They are the RAF's current navigaton trainers so are part of the current RAF and deserve to be part of the display.

There were plenty of B-29s in the 1953 flypast.

[Super Slo Mo]

Genelec said:

Why did they not have these shots wirelessly for the show? Seemed to miss a trick there, would have been great!

It's a good question. I seem to recall they tried to do it at the wedding.

A possible reason is that it's likely that none of the major wireless suppliers have equipment that has the necessary approvals for use on those particular aircraft. If that were the case, and it's only that I'm speculating, I don't think anyone would be willing to spend the necessary small fortune on having the approvals made. It costs many, many thousands of pounds to have your equipment approved for flight, and even then, it gets approved for specific aircraft and nothing else.

I would also question whether anyone has a mount suitable to attach an antenna to, that would fit any of those aircraft. Again, having something made would cost a serious amount of money.

[Ginetta G15 Girl]

Eric Mc said:

They are the RAF's current navigaton trainers so are part of the current RAF and deserve to be part of the display.

Not exactly Eric!

The Nav trainers were the Dominie T1s of 55(R)Sqn that were retired last year (XS709 is in the museum at Cosford).

The King Airs are operated by 45(R)Sqn in the Multi-Engined Pilot Training role and replaced the Jetstream T1s back in 2003. 45(R)Sqn at Cranwell is what used to be METS (Multi-Engined Training Squadron) at RAF Finningley prior to the move to Cranwell at the end of 1995.

I imagine they were in the flypast owing to the combination of the grobbly weather and their modern nav aids.

[Eric Mc]

Do back seat men (and girls) not get trained any more?

[Ginetta G15 Girl]

The last Dominie course was completed in January 2011. The last Hawk phase of the Fast-Jet Nav course (on 100 Sqn at Leeming) completed last month.

With the planned retirement of Tornado GR4 in 2020 and Camerloon's crazy canning of any MPA capability for the UK, the RAF no longer needs to train WSOs/WSops.