After the fabulous fly-by from the Eleanora's Falcon in Kent last weekend, this weekend it was the turn of some different flying beasts - planes! Every since we have lived here our house has been directly under the final approach flight path for Buckingham Palace events, in this case the Platinum Jubilee. And I mean directly underneath!
I am not exactly a staunch royalist. This house has no bunting and I am not attending our local street party. That said the Queen has done a remarkable job and lived an incredible life. Who would want to do a job like that for their entire lives, and put up with it in the way she has? Imagine having to be polite to people for that long? I find it astonishing, an extraordinary public servant. The rest of her family, well, they can do one frankly, and I couldn't care less what happens next.
Anyway, here are a few photos of the airborne parade that ended up down The Mall about half a minute later. I missed the helicopters as I had forgotten that this was happening, and was busy listening to a rather enthralling first day of cricket on the radio. So, roughly in flight order.
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| Lancaster and Spitfire |
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| C130 Hercules |
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| Atlas (top) and C-17 Globemaster below. The bottom one in particular was ridiculously enourmous |
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| So enourmous I didn't need to crop this. I wonder how many G&Ts you can fit in it? |
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| A Rivet Joint. I had never heard of this. |
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| F-35 Lightning. Only £90 million. |
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| I admit I smiled when I saw the formation .15 Eurofighters. Probably now renamed, I would not put it past those in power. |
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| A perennial favourite.... |
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| ....The Red Arrows |
Proud to say my father once flew a Spitfire. A lifetimes ambition achieved at 20 years of age.
ReplyDeleteI don't care what anybody says, you simply can't better the noise of an Avro Lanc going overhead. Unless it's something supersonic, obvs. It's good to see you back, buddy.
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