Wikimedia Commons

File:Two RAF VC-10 tanker aircraft fly over Buckingham Palace, June 2010 MOD 45152023.jpg

(Redirected from File:RAF VC-10 Aircraft Fly Over Buckingham Palace MOD 45152023.jpg)

Original file ‎(3,200 × 4,800 pixels, file size: 7.84 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Summary edit

Description
English: Two Royal Air Force (RAF) VC-10 tanker/transport from RAF Brize Norton are pictured flying over Buckingham Palace.

The Royal Air Force helped to celebrate Her Majesty The Queen's Birthday with a flypast over Buckingham Palace at 1.00 pm on Saturday 12th June 2010.

The flypast was made up of 30 aircraft - 13 different types, from World War ll Spitfire, Hurricane and Lancaster, to modern multi-role Typhoon fighters and the Red Arrows aerobatic display team. The Battle of England Memorial Flight (BEMF) will lead the formation, their inclusion commemorating the 70th Anniversary of the Battle of England.

The formation elements flew over Buckingham Palace at altitudes of between 1,300 feet and 1,500 feet starting at 1.00 pm precisely. The flypast took three minutes 40 seconds to fly over the Palace.

  • Organisation: Royal Air Force (RAF)
  • Object name: Queens Birthday Flypast
  • Category: MOD
  • Supplemental categories: Operations, Ceremonial, Equipment, Aircraft, Support, VC10
  • Keywords: The Royal Air Force, Queen’s Birthday, flypast, Buckingham Palace, Royal Air Force, RAF, Equipment, Aircraft, Tanker, VC10, VC-10
  • Country: England
Date
Source
Author Cpl Laura Bibby
Permission
(Reusing this file)		 Images are downloadable at high resolution, made available at http://www.defenceimagery.mod.uk for reuse under the OGL (Open Government License).

Licensing edit

Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom
This file is licensed under the Open Government Licence version 1.0 (OGL v1.0).
Attribution:Photo: Cpl Laura Bibby/MOD
You are free to:
  • copy, publish, distribute and transmit the Information;
  • adapt the Information;
  • exploit the Information commercially for example, by combining it with other Information, or by including it in your own product or application.
You must, where you do any of the above:
  • acknowledge the source of the Information by including any attribution statement specified by the Information Provider(s) and, where possible, provide a link to this licence;
  • ensure that you do not use the Information in a way that suggests any official status or that the Information Provider endorses you or your use of the Information;
  • ensure that you do not mislead others or misrepresent the Information or its source;
  • ensure that your use of the Information does not breach the Data Protection Act 1998 or the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003.

See the Open Government Licence page on Meta-Wiki for more information.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current10:33, 27 June 2013Thumbnail for version as of 10:33, 27 June 20133,200 × 4,800 (7.84 MB)Fæ (talk | contribs)== {{int:filedesc}} == {{information |description={{en|Two Royal Air Force VC-10 tanker/transport from RAF Brize Norton are pictured flying over Buckingham Palace. The Royal Air Force helped to celebrate Her Majesty The Queen’s Birthday with a fly...

You cannot overwrite this file.

The following page uses this file:

File usage on other wikis

The following other wikis use this file:

Metadata

This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.

Retrieved from "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Two_RAF_VC-10_tanker_aircraft_fly_over_Buckingham_Palace,_June_2010_MOD_45152023.jpg&oldid=861107902"