Saturday, June 11, 2016

Royal flyby and flotilla

The Queen is 90.... again.

For complicated reasons (there's a complete Wikipedia page on the topic) she has two birthdays, but then again she is The Queen so I guess who's to say no.

Anyhow, one of them was today or round about now so there was a flyby over London and flotilla first up then down the Thames.

While unable to properly be at either I had a fair sight of the former whoosh over the City on its east to west track, a collection of 29 aircraft from Spitfires to Typhoons plus of course the Red Arrows (above).

During the afternoon there was a trickle of boats, classic rowing or Dunkirk Little Ships heading back up the Thames from the flotilla:



Good ol' Queen! Always get a good show from her.

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