Need aviation buff help. I studiously avoided the wedding (not easy when it’s on every channel) but when I heard that there was a flyover, my interest was piqued.
Royal Wedding Fly Over 2011 - YouTube"
So is that two Spitfires escorting the Lancaster or is one a Hawker Hurricane? They don’t quite look identical even if the shot is mostly a silhouette. Thanks in advance.
Spitfire and Hurricane. At 0:17, you can get a good look at the wings. The one with the pointier wings is a Spit; the more squared-off wingtips is a Hurricane.
Thank you!
That was the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, which regularly (although too infrequently) flies by at major events.
I’m always late to aviation threads!
(And I’ve only just seen the fly-over.)
Yes, the BBMF is a Spitfire, a Hurricane and a Lancaster - despite the Lancaster having nothing to do with the Battle of Britain. (The BoB ended October 31 1940, the Lanc entered service in 1942.)
True, but it is a chance to hear 6 merlin engines at once, what more reason is required?
Very cool.
We went to a private fly-in party once ( everyone was a pilot, except probably us) at a friends parents house, whose house backs up to a private airstrip.
They had a bunch of fly overs that day from other area enthusiasts. The one that got alot of OOOOh factor was the MIG.
Henry Tenby of AirlineTV.net filmed this footage at the Abbotsford Airshow 2010 media day on Thursday, August 12, 2010, which includes pre-flight engine run-ups and post flight maintenance run-ups.
I was at that airshow. I was in the crowd, and I didn’t have my tripod. I did get some video, but I haven’t watched it yet.
Even so, it is one of the only two flying Lancasters left in the world, so I’m not going to get too upset about anachronistic details on the subject…
None whatever… 
Trust me, when I see them, live or on TV, the first thought to cross my mind is not “But Lancasters weren’t in the Battle of Britaiiiin…”. 
There was some great footage from inside the Lancaster as it flew down the Mall, looking out of the front of the plane at the crowds and Buckingham Palace, and at the two flanking planes from the turret.
My sons and I slept underneath one of them on a Scout field trip to the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum. At the time, they had one of the engines out for maintenance, so I was able to look at it partially disassembled. Fascinating stuff.