When we had an Airforce....

[roughcutter]

Just to whet your appetite for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Flypast, here's one I went to earlier - in 1990 (appologies in advance for the picture quality, regrettably I wasn't so discerning then).



































Cheers, MarkL

[tanker]

no words..... thanks for sharing

[Dan214sqn]

awesome, i was 4 then, missed it all

[Flyingmonster]

Cor Blimey!!

[paddyboy]

Aaaarrggghhh

Dark room time now, before the men in white coats arrive

Great post, buddy

Paddyboy

[DaleRFU]

Thats more aircraft than we have now!!!

[crashman]

Brilliant

[ciaranchef]

Dear me...wow..what a stunning collection of types.....

[60mu]

hi all
we also queued , but arrived at Abingdon just before the flypast.
It does not seem 22 years ago .some nice photo,s

60mu

[stigorige]

I remember this well, they rehearsed over Grimes Graves in Norfolk were I worked at the time, enroute to Marham.
Just one thing puzzles me, the Desert Shield/ Desert Storm Gulf war was in early 1991, so how is there a pink Jaguar at the head of one of the formations in 1990?
Stig.

[ch1965]

Jaguars deployed immediately after the invasion of Kuwait in 1990, if I remember correctly they thought it appropriate that the Jag formation was led by one of the pink Jaguars.

[stigorige]

Makes sense I guess, Thanks. Awesome times, the Mildenhall show after Desert Storm was pretty cool too!
Thanks for posting these Roughcutter.
Cheers, Stig.

[roughcutter]

Cheers for the feedback guys, glad you enjoyed them!
Very nearly missed the flypast myself! After being gridlocked on the A.34 for over three hours I was almost tearing my hair out - worst traffic jam in my life. When we finally got moving, concluded that there wouldn't be enough time to queue up to drive in, so out of desperation parked up on a nearby grass verge and ran into the place (after paying the vendor of course). Sprinted for about half mile to the flightline and got there with seconds to spare. I was gasping for breath when I took those shots, that was 22 years ago. If I attempted that today, probably have a cardiac!
MarkL