Kings birthday flypast / practice

[TankBuster]

There is a list floating around on the web,

From memory the Flypast includes…

Apache, Chinook, Juno, Merlin, Puma & Wildcat

Battle of Britain memorial Flight

Phenom T1 & Texan T1

Hercules x 3

Globemaster, Voyager & Airbus A400 Atlas x 2

Poseidon flanked by 2 x Typhoons.

6 x F35 Lightning

Typhoon FGR4 diamond 9

Red Arrows

[jamesg23]

more than 9 typhoons have been practicing so they could be spelling something rather than a diamond 9

[jules50]

Coronation flypast rearranged for the King’s Birthday Parade
Around 70 aircraft from all three services will fly over London for His Majesty the King.

From:
Ministry of Defence
Published
15 June 2023

Aircraft from across the Royal Navy, British Army and Royal Air Force will take part in a spectacular flypast for the King’s Birthday Parade, marking the first Birthday Flypast for His Majesty King Charles III.

Around 70 aircraft will take to the skies above the crowds on The Mall and over Buckingham Palace watched by Their Majesties the King and Queen, alongside other members of the royal family.

The aircraft will take off from 15 different locations across the UK before joining up across the south-east of England and flying across the capital.

Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Knighton said:
We are very proud to be able to showcase our capabilities to our Commander-in-Chief, on this historic occasion for His Majesty the King.

We have planned a fitting and appropriate tribute for our monarch, that should be a true spectacle for the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth.

The event will feature a mix of aircraft ranging from the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight dating back to the 1940s and the C-130 Hercules on its final ceremonial flight before retiring from service, to multiple Typhoon fighter jet aircraft and the Envoy IV CC1, making its flypast debut.

At the front of the flypast will be a Juno HT1 piloted by Flight Lieutenant Tom Knapp from 60 Squadron, No.1 Flying Training School based at RAF Shawbury. The event will culminate in a spectacular show of red, white and blue from the pilots of the RAF Red Arrows.

A similar sized flypast was planned for the King’s Coronation in May but was scaled down due to poor weather conditions. Therefore, this Birthday Flypast has been increased in size to pay tribute to the new monarch.

Air Officer Commanding 1 Group, Air Vice-Marshal Mark Flewin said:
It is a great honour to be part of His Majesty the King’s Birthday celebrations, where the flypast is an opportunity for us to showcase formation, precision and excellence in the air to our Commander-in-Chief on such a special occasion.

The aircraft of the Armed Forces have a long and proud history of taking part in this occasion, with the first King’s Birthday Flypast taking place in 1913; and, most recently, formed part of Their Majesties’ Coronation in May and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee last year.

Many of the aircraft taking part in the flypast have been actively involved in operations around the world this year including the NATO Air Policing mission in Eastern Europe and the evacuation of British citizens from Sudan.

The King’s Birthday Flypast follows Trooping the Colour which takes place on Horse Guards Parade in the morning. The ceremony dates back to the reign of King Charles II, and became an annual event in 1760. This year, the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards will troop their colour in the presence of His Majesty the King.

[markranger]

Anyone seen a mapped Notam? Not text?

[Bobling]

There's maps here- whether it is a mapped NOTAM I couldn't tell you - https://nats-uk.ead-it.com/cms-nats/exp ... E-2023.pdf.

Phew glad to have official confirmation this is going to be as bit as I'd hoped, looking forward to it, now only decision left is viewing location. Millenium Bridge I think. I did toy with the idea of trying to be up the top of the Fire of London monument but it's surrounded in wire which would spoil things a bit.

Also I'm curious why viewing from the Mall itself is a bad idea? Crowds/restricted visibiility?

[Sw]

If you have a look on U tube RAF 100 it shows you what the view is and the crowds are very large

[tim_raper]

Also I'm curious why viewing from the Mall itself is a bad idea? Crowds/restricted visibiility?

crowded and viewed head on/underneath, not that these are necessarily bad or reasons not to.
Blackfriars region for me.

[Bobling]

Gah, it's just a one shot affair. No re-dos. Anyone got photos from a previous flypast up the mall that gives an idea of what the view is like from the river?

[d555]

Gah, it's just a one shot affair. No re-dos. Anyone got photos from a previous flypast up the mall that gives an idea of what the view is like from the river?

This was taken at last year Queen's Platinum Jubilee flypast from the Millennium Bridge using a 300mm.
It is a decent location away from the more crowded areas.
Hope it's helpful

QPJ22.0602.10b by Meddy89, on Flickr

[tommc]

5 x Junos have arrived at Wattisham this afternoon

[Bobling]

Gah, it's just a one shot affair. No re-dos. Anyone got photos from a previous flypast up the mall that gives an idea of what the view is like from the river?

This was taken at last year Queen's Platinum Jubilee flypast from the Millennium Bridge using a 300mm.
It is a decent location away from the more crowded areas.
Hope it's helpful

QPJ22.0602.10b by Meddy89, on Flickr

Ah, that's grand, cheers!

[AMG_1969]

Anyone seen a mapped Notam? Not text?

Here you go

https://www.military-airshows.co.uk/pre ... st2023.htm

Regards

Andrew

[Sw]

On twitter RAF page they showing a CGI of the flypast with 18 Typhoons

[andygolfer]

not the NoTAM map but this might help.
These are a series of ADSB replay maps of the route taken by the Jubilee flypast on 2nd June 2022 that I have copied and converted to JPEGs with aircraft track lines to show exact centrelines, they normally fly the same line as I've got a couple of regular places I go to at Witham and Hatfield Peverel in Essex and they have always been on the same line. They were at 1000ft at Hatfield Peverel and showing as 875 on the Mall.
I couldn't put all the tracks after the split because they separate to 3 or 4 different routes sorry.
Here is the first one with the route from Suffolk to east London
1 queens jubilee flypast route ADSB 02-06-2022 essex.pub by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

and the departures west of London
2 queens jubilee flypast route ADSB 02-06-2022 west of the mall.pub by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

now two zoomed in between Witham in Essex and the M25
3 queens jubilee flypast route ADSB 02-06-2022 witham to chelmsford.pub by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

4 queens jubilee flypast route ADSB 02-06-2022 chelmsford to M25.pub by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

and finally across London from the M25 to Northolt / Uxbridge, the split happens approximately over Chelsea, you might get topsides from the south west corner of Hyde Park but they would be back lit on a bright day
5 queens jubilee flypast route ADSB 02-06-2022 M25 to Chiswick by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

hope they are of use
Andy

[Rick]

Would anyone have London info & A/A frequencies for the flypast?
I presume each formation will have its own A/A.

Thanks in advance.

[Alpha Delta 210]

Thanks very much for taking the time to plot the Jubilee route, Andy. Fingers crossed that they take a similar track today!

[davedubya]

not the NoTAM map but this might help.
These are a series of ADSB replay maps of the route taken by the Jubilee flypast on 2nd June 2022 that I have copied and converted to JPEGs with aircraft track lines to show exact centrelines, they normally fly the same line as I've got a couple of regular places I go to at Witham and Hatfield Peverel in Essex and they have always been on the same line. They were at 1000ft at Hatfield Peverel and showing as 875 on the Mall.
I couldn't put all the tracks after the split because they separate to 3 or 4 different routes sorry.
Here is the first one with the route from Suffolk to east London
1 queens jubilee flypast route ADSB 02-06-2022 essex.pub by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

and the departures west of London
2 queens jubilee flypast route ADSB 02-06-2022 west of the mall.pub by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

now two zoomed in between Witham in Essex and the M25
3 queens jubilee flypast route ADSB 02-06-2022 witham to chelmsford.pub by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

4 queens jubilee flypast route ADSB 02-06-2022 chelmsford to M25.pub by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

and finally across London from the M25 to Northolt / Uxbridge, the split happens approximately over Chelsea, you might get topsides from the south west corner of Hyde Park but they would be back lit on a bright day
5 queens jubilee flypast route ADSB 02-06-2022 M25 to Chiswick by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

hope they are of use
Andy

There used to be a bridge over the A12 near Kelvedon that was good for it. Now everyone in Essex turns up there so the more rural spots are better.

[Pi]

Juno HT.1 ZM531 SYS 73 Just landed at Northolt, guess to do the wx check ?

[andygolfer]

There used to be a bridge over the A12 near Kelvedon that was good for it. Now everyone in Essex turns up there so the more rural spots are better.

I've used Rolleylane Bridge over the railway at the end of New Road in Kelvedonin the past, about 30 metres beyond the bridge and you're about 600m off the centreline then, that's pretty good and no development to generate extra heat haze
Andy

[Stug298]

NIGHTHAWK 59 flight of 2 wildcats heading east past Haverhill......