Battle of Britain [purplecthulhu]

You're viewing

purplecthulhu's journal
Create a Dreamwidth Account Learn More

Reload page in style: site light

←

→

Battle of Britain
Originally uploaded by purplecthulhu.

Lancaster and Spitfires from today's flypast. So nice of the Queen to arrange for her flypasts to go past my balcony every time!

ETA: Photos courtesy of

major_clanger who has a much better camera than me!

←

→

There are 17 comments on this entry. (Reply.)

It is rather good of her, definitely!

[link] [reply]

That was what it was! I looked up and there was this huge thing flying almost in silence and I went Ooooooh and tried to grab a camera but didn't have one. God they were beautiful.

[link] [reply]

In principle, next year you could join the party and watch from Cthulhu Towers!

[link] [parent] [reply]

When I was a kid, we lived in the flight path of the B-52 runs out of Vandenberg AFB. It's amazing being able to see older planes out there, isn't it?

[link] [reply]

The 852s aren't that much older than Lancs and Spits, but they're still flying combat missions!

[link] [parent] [reply]

I hadn't realised that. It was cool to be able to hear them and go out and see them. That and the vapour trails from whatever was causing the almost daily sonic booms!

Growing up during the Cold War had its disadvantages, but I do occasionally feel a bit of nostalgia for the ways in which new technological advances were important and recognised; for the way that watching NASA stuff brought so many of us together (my mom got me out of bed for at least one of the Apollo missions, as well as to watch my first lunar eclipse -- I think I must have been about 5?)

[link] [parent] [reply]

We lived on the flightpath for F111s from a US airbase, so got to see them quite regularly. Of course they occasionally fell out of the sky...

There was one time on the way to school when we got buzzed by a Vulcan - that was really impressive - and then later, while I was home from university, we saw the F111s flying in large numbers and in convoy with tanker aircraft on what we later found was the attack on Libya.

[link] [parent] [reply]

yeah, that's the not fun to remember part!

[link] [parent] [reply]

Any Nimrods?

[link] [reply]

Yes, one. My comment was 'they're still letting those deathtraps fly?'

[link] [parent] [reply]

That's why it was flanked by a pair of Tornados - so that if all else failed the backseaters in each could have a go with a fire extinguisher...

[link] [parent] [reply]

The Queen! God bless 'er!

Nice image - at least from our relatively safe perspective in history it is a nice image.

[link] [reply]

Is this an annual thing? What's it for? Is it the Queen's birthday?

[link] [reply]

Yep - official birthday.

[link] [parent] [reply]

The first time I was in England was about this time in June, and everyone was gearing up for her birthday celebration. I think it was the Silver Jubilee, but I might be off on that.

[link] [parent] [reply]

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
	1	2	3	4	5	6
7	8	9	10	11	12	13
14	15	16	17	18 1	19	20
21	22	23	24	25	26	27
28	29	30	31

purplecthulhu

Battle of Britain

(no subject)

(no subject)

(no subject)

(no subject)

(no subject)

(no subject)

(no subject)

(no subject)

(no subject)

(no subject)

(no subject)

(no subject)

(no subject)

(no subject)

(no subject)

(no subject)

(no subject)

December