Jubilee Flypast

[aeropilot]

H_4_ESC said:

DoubleSix said:

Why do they fly over Heathrow? Would have thought that was busy airspace to be avoided...

I don’t think they have much choice, each element is moving at different speeds so have to break off as soon as they pass the palace. I understand the helicopters may head south west, the BBMF to the North via Hendon, the heavies and fast jets will probably break off towards Northolt or go straight through over Heathrow.

The flypast will cause disruption to Heathrow approach anyway, and they will have had restrictions in place, so overflying it may not make much difference in any case.

Also the Reds are going to Fairford to overnight there, and the route shows them flying over Windsor Castle, which is maybe the main reasons for their routing after overflying Buck House. It might have been part of the plan when HMQ was/is having mobilty issues in recent weeks, and there was a contingency plan for her not being at Buck for Trooping, hence the overfly of Windsor Castle in the plan by the Reds. Routing to overfly Windsor would have to mean routing over Heathrow.
What we don't know yet is if all of the jets stuff is routing the same ahead of the Reds, as they did for the RAF 100th flypast over Heathrow back in 2018...or whether its just the Reds doing that route split, and the other fast jet stuff taking the usual NW routing out over RAF Northolt...?

Edit:
Official NOTAM site only show the route already published for the Reds, so my guess is other than the helo's and BBMF, all of the aircraft will be following the NOTAM orange route via Heathrow and over Windsor Castle, and north of Reading.

Edited by aeropilot on Wednesday 1st June 11:42

[dai1983]

Going to be sitting in the back of something as of today...

Hopefully be able to take pics etc.

[ecsrobin]

dai1983 said:

Going to be sitting in the back of something as of today...

Hopefully be able to take pics etc.

Enjoy, I was in the back of an aircraft on the Flypast back in 2011 hitching a lift to Cosford air show. It was a great experience.

[JD]

Pretty damn impressive from my garden.

The Typhoons in the 70 formation looked incredible.

[Steve vRS]

Nice to see the Pumas get a day out.

[48k]

That was brilliant. Superb flying, executed to perfection.

[llewop]

Saw the Reds approaching Fairford, a couple of heavies playing 'how close can we stay together for how long' before breaking away to land at Brize and slightly surprisingly the Lancaster on its own - heading for Fairford too? All over Faringdon.

[Mr E]

Walking to the pub. Heard noise. Thought “that sounds like a merlin”

Looked up.

Lanc doing circuits over Swindon at about 13:50.

[Penrhyn]

Well l saw it on BBC1 and l have to say it was fantastic, well done to our Armed Forces really making us very proud to be British.

[essexplumber]

Flew slightly to the north of me over Kelvedon hatch! They normally fly directly over my place on the Heathrow flight path. Had to stand on the flat bed of a Navarra to glimpse them over the tree line! Bloody brilliant though!
God save our queen!!!

[bitchstewie]

Penrhyn said:

Well l saw it on BBC1 and l have to say it was fantastic, well done to our Armed Forces really making us very proud to be British.

Damned right.

Jubilee coverage was brilliant and some amazing videos on Twitter just from people catching it all from their windows and gardens

[TCEvo]

C-17 & A400 from Fryerning Church tower... better view than pic suggests as from there you can see London skyline & down to the Thames at Corringham.

[PArbor1]

The Wildcat and Merlin’s arriving back at Yeovilton before they headed off about half hour later.

[aeropilot]

One of the Typhoon groups (probably the ones that formed the '0' taken from just south of White Waltham aerodrome.

[Tony1963]

From about a mile south of Marks Tey. Was good to see a few F-35s.

Edited by Tony1963 on Thursday 2nd June 17:19

[Littleern]

JD said:

Pretty damn impressive from my garden.

The Typhoons in the 70 formation looked incredible.

Certainly did. Filmed the whole thing from our garden but the Typhoons were a highlight

[dai1983]

I'm rubbish at taking pics plus the fly past bit was actually over in what felt like an instant. Highlight was turning off and seeing all the other aircraft going by in the side window.

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Have more pics but not sure I want to post them or should. Had some time sat on the lowered ramp with a harness/cord on me too.

[Mr E]

dai1983 said:

I'm rubbish at taking pics plus the fly past bit was actually over in what felt like an instant. Highlight was turning off and seeing all the other aircraft going by in the side window.

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Have more pics but not sure I want to post them or should. Had some time sat on the lowered ramp with a harness/cord on me too.

This place is great sometimes.

[Andy 308GTB]

H_4_ESC said:

Andy 308GTB said:

AndrewGP said:

If you trace a line back from Buckingham Palace directly down The Mall, all the way back over Essex, that will give you the formation’s run in. I think the easiest way to do this is in Google Maps, right-click on the Palace, choose measure distance, then just drag the line out, lining it up with direction of The Mall.

I took part in the Queens Birthday flypast in 2016 and although I used our flight planning software to draw the route, the principle is the same. From memory, my sister positioned herself near South Weald park close to Brentwood and we went right over the top on the way in.

Thanks.

My wife was somewhere near Mountnessing, I think, and a previous fly past went directly overhead. She chose that point based on a published route. This time we are trying to find a beer garden to watch from!

Using Google Maps is a good idea!

I think it used to be pretty much a straight line from Colchester, West of Hatfield Peverel station, Chelmsford, Hainault/Fairlops.

This worked out well. The flypast went directly overhead the Leather Bottle, Blackmore - where I was standing, with a pint of lager.

[2fast748]

dai1983 said:

I'm rubbish at taking pics plus the fly past bit was actually over in what felt like an instant. Highlight was turning off and seeing all the other aircraft going by in the side window.

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Have more pics but not sure I want to post them or should. Had some time sat on the lowered ramp with a harness/cord on me too.

Watched it live on BigJetTV, thought it looked good but you definitely had one of the best seats in the house!

Seeing all of the aircraft involved made me actually feel patriotic, which is not something the royal family do.