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June 2018

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Flypast for Queen's Official Birthday

Leicester Square, London. Sat 9 Jun 2018



 Few birthdays are celebrated with events which combine such excessive noise, waste of resources and pollution

 First came the helicopters

 Then some WWII vintage aircraft

 and this rather odd thing

 On its tail was the message RAF 100. My father was serving with the RFC when they became the RAF but I

 don't expect there were huge celebrations where he was in France at the time. Though perhaps they drank to it.

 Later in life he had to be tee-total (and my infant hand was guided around the pledge as a little white ribboner)
 but I think then he enjoyed an occasional pint of beer.

 It did rather look as if those funny little triangles were stuck to the wing tips of the larger plane

 

 

 

 Then we got four in a diamond formation. They reminded me a little of watching tropical fish in a tank

 which would have been more colourful, much cheaper and considerably less noisy

 

 and for the finale we got some more visible polluton across the sky.

 Rather more like the flag of the Netherlands than the Union Flag, but that would require some very tricky flying indeed!

 

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