On Saturday 12 June 2010 it was The Queen’s Official Birthday and as part of the official celebrations there was the annual RAF flypast of 29 RAF aircraft who over fly Buckingham Palace as part of this annual State Event. For many years it has been tradition for the RAF to pay their respects and 2010 was no exception with 29 aircraft in the flypast, starting with the legendary Spitfire and finishing with the awesome Red Arrows.

I was lucky enough to be there and a very mild day and recorded this on my Flip Video Ultra High Definition Camcorderand uploaded the vid on YouTube so have a look and do let me know what you think.

The flypast order was as follows;

• Spitfire
• Hurricane
• Typhoon
• Tornado F3
• Typhoon
• VC10
• Tristar
• Tornado GR4
• Sentinel
• HS125
• Nimrod R1
• Tornado GR4
• E3D
• Hawk T1 flown by the Red Arrows – as always awesome….

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For information the flypast forms a holding pattern over the sea East of Southwold, with the slower flying Battle of Britain Memorial Flight holding North of Cambridge. The main formation routes to Buckingham Palace via Colchester, with the BBMF joining the main route at the outskirts of Northeast London. The now combined formation will overfly the Palace at 1 o’clock, before exiting via RAF Northolt and RAF Halton before finally dispersing over RAF Brize Norton.

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