Like Aeroplanes? Ve Day Flypast Routes

Discussion in 'Lounge' started by Expat Jack, Apr 24, 2025 at 8:31 AM.

  1. 8a10db62-a6b4-4733-a085-7e5f3edc8a62.jpeg 27364aba-8138-4e20-ae67-163fa30d6515.jpeg Here are the flying routes and scheduled times. Keep your eyes peeled.
     
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  2. Everyone parked on the M25 and in central London traffic jams will have something to look at!
     
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  3. Anything in the South, as that's where all the action was back in the day.?
     
  4. I bet it rains and its cancelled.:D
     
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  5. Well everyday is a school day on here, there was me believing that it was a United Kingdom and Commonwealth combined effort.

    Hadn’t realised we owed so much to the Home Counties for their sacrifice for our freedom.
     
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  6. You misread my question, a lot of airstrips were hit hard in South region that's all i was saying.
     
  7. I didn’t, it’s a VE Day celebration which means it’s a celebration of the collective effort of all of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth.

    If we’re using the most heavily attacked as the benchmark perhaps the fly past should be over Malta too.
     
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  8. .. or France. I suspect the celebrations over there will be bigger than here.
     
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  9. By the time of VE Day, and for most of the war, the airfields of East Anglia and Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire etc were far more heavily involved due their relative proximity to Germany. Not much was happening over France by 1945.
     
  10. Nothing north of Watford obviously.
     
  11. I believe you may be correct with regard to the celebrations.
     
  12. APU :)

    Is that Watford or Watford Gap though?
     
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  13. More routes for rehearsals

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  14. Quite spoilt living between Coningsby and Waddington, get the Red Arrows, Typhoons and BBMF over us pretty often.
     
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  15. I would hope they can fly without having to practice more. FFS
     
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  16. Jeez, the pilots are all 110 years old, give them a break…….
     
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