Nine up
19th May 2012 Queen Elizabeth II celebrates her Diamond Jubilee - her 60th year since ascending to the throne and the British Armed Services commemorated the event in style with a gathering at Windsor Castle - all 2,500 of them.
With the weather less than ideal and having plotted the projected track, we made camp south of the Hogs Back, west of Guildford and waited. With some 19 miles still to run to the overhead at Windsor, sure enough with RAF precision, dead on time at 10:52am, the nine Typhoons in 'Diamond' formation, came out of the murk heading north to salute Her Majesty.
8 minutes later the event attended by HM the Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh, was opened by this nine-ship flypast..
Once the festivities had taken place and to close the event, at 12:25pm there followed a mass flypast by some 76 more aircraft drawn from the RAF, The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, the Royal Navy, the Army Air Corps and the Royal Marines comprised of Helicopters, Ground Attack aircraft, a VC-10 Tanker, a WWII Lancaster Bomber, Hercules Transports and Tucano and Hawk Trainers, the latter in two distinct formations (see later)all culminating in a final Diamond nine flown appropriately by The Red Arrows display team.
Nine up
19th May 2012 Queen Elizabeth II celebrates her Diamond Jubilee - her 60th year since ascending to the throne and the British Armed Services commemorated the event in style with a gathering at Windsor Castle - all 2,500 of them.
With the weather less than ideal and having plotted the projected track, we made camp south of the Hogs Back, west of Guildford and waited. With some 19 miles still to run to the overhead at Windsor, sure enough with RAF precision, dead on time at 10:52am, the nine Typhoons in 'Diamond' formation, came out of the murk heading north to salute Her Majesty.
8 minutes later the event attended by HM the Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh, was opened by this nine-ship flypast..
Once the festivities had taken place and to close the event, at 12:25pm there followed a mass flypast by some 76 more aircraft drawn from the RAF, The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, the Royal Navy, the Army Air Corps and the Royal Marines comprised of Helicopters, Ground Attack aircraft, a VC-10 Tanker, a WWII Lancaster Bomber, Hercules Transports and Tucano and Hawk Trainers, the latter in two distinct formations (see later)all culminating in a final Diamond nine flown appropriately by The Red Arrows display team.