Jubilee fly past x 70 planes!

[Marigold4]

Apparently 70 aircraft flying past for the Jubilee on Thursday. Any one got any information about timing and routes please?

 

[SEL]

Meeting up down the east coast then dispersing over the home counties. I'll try and find the details from our local FB page

 

[Tiddlypom]

Rough guide here. The pic as published in i news is interactive, all I've posted is a screen shot of it.
https://inews.co.uk/news/platinum-j...-path-map-when-flyover-how-watch-live-1620799

 

[AmyMay]

Oh, so only England get a fly past

 

[SEL]

Oh, so only England get a fly past

Technically only London. Because of the different flying speeds they disperse very quickly

 

[Archangel]

Oh, so only England get a fly past

I was thinking that too.

 

[poiuytrewq]

Am I being thick, which area (colour) corresponds to the letters?

 

[ycbm]

Oh, so only England get a fly past

It's only a tiny part of England, it's not about excluding Wales, Scotland or N. Ireland. I assume it's a logistical issue for it not to be more widespread. I'm not going to get bent out of shape because it doesn't fly over Cornwall, Merseyside or Newcastle.
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[Tiddlypom]

Technically only London. Because of the different flying speeds they disperse very quickly

I'm hoping that we might get something old and interesting overhead here from aircraft en route to or from the flypast. We're well away from London, but are on a regular flight path, so we might get lucky.

As long as it isn't a ruddy hot air balloon!

 

[Nettle123]

Tiddlypom, Severn Valley Railway has a Lancaster flypast on all 4 days, may fly in your direction perhaps.

 

[humblepie]

We are in one of the dispersal areas and have an air field near us so hoping we may see something.

 

[SEL]

It's only a tiny part of England, it's not about excluding Wales, Scotland or N. Ireland. I assume it's a logistical issue for it not to be more widespread. I'm not going to get bent out of shape because it doesn't fly over Cornwall, Merseyside or Newcastle.
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Its purely logistical. Many decades ago my dad organised the Queen's birthday flypast (he's retired air force) and with so many planes needing to be funnelled into London to follow the Thames - all doing different speeds - its a flight controllers nightmare. No way can you have fast jets matching the speed of a spitfire because they'd stall and crash. The formation part is actually very short by necessity. Plus Heathrow gets grounded for that period.

But you can see parts of the fly past on the way in and on dispersal and it makes an 80 year old man very happy if they buzz over Buckinghamshire!!

 

[Birker2020]

Its purely logistical. Many decades ago my dad organised the Queen's birthday flypast (he's retired air force) and with so many planes needing to be funnelled into London to follow the Thames - all doing different speeds - its a flight controllers nightmare. No way can you have fast jets matching the speed of a spitfire because they'd stall and crash. The formation part is actually very short by necessity. Plus Heathrow gets grounded for that period.

But you can see parts of the fly past on the way in and on dispersal and it makes an 80 year old man very happy if they buzz over Buckinghamshire!!

Wow how interesting. Thanks for sharing SEL

 

[Regandal]

Oh, so only England get a fly past

Three times today, and numerous other days, I’ve heard the Queen referred to as ‘the Queen of England’. On radio 4 as well ?
Fine by me ? What’s the term for a jubilee grinch?

 

[twiggy2]

I wonder how many cow farts the emissions from the fly past equates too?

 

[honetpot]

It should be a noisy day for us, we are not on the official route but around us is flat and and open so they tend to use the airspace over us to practice or group up in military airspace.
You can download Flight Radar, https://www.flightradar24.com/apps. I saw two jets escorting a plane a couple of weeks ago, using the app I could see it was the PM's plane going north.

 

[Shooting Star]

A more detailed plan for the red arrows part of it is here https://www.military-airshows.co.uk/press22/redarrowsschedule2022.htm , they look to be doing the midlands air show later in the day too

 

[teapot]

Its purely logistical. Many decades ago my dad organised the Queen's birthday flypast (he's retired air force) and with so many planes needing to be funnelled into London to follow the Thames - all doing different speeds - its a flight controllers nightmare. No way can you have fast jets matching the speed of a spitfire because they'd stall and crash. The formation part is actually very short by necessity. Plus Heathrow gets grounded for that period.

But you can see parts of the fly past on the way in and on dispersal and it makes an 80 year old man very happy if they buzz over Buckinghamshire!!

This this this. It's also a huge risk doing it over London too, let alone impact on City and Heathrow.