Flypast by fishers

Flypast

Not a very good quality image today, but I wanted to share with you a special event that took place this afternoon.

To commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, 12 spitfire aircraft took off from Humberside airport and split into three flights, with each flight flying over a different part of Yorkshire.

By the time this flight passed over York about 4:20pm, the day had become very dark and gloomy and rain was threatening, so it was very hard to get a crisp clear shot.

After downloading the images, I tried to lighten the aircraft in this shot, which then gave me an almost white sky - so I thought I would add a blue sky to give me the kind of day that I would have preferred!

Ian
Super shot, lovely composition.
August 13th, 2015  
Considering your obstacles this picture is great. Neat story of the flypast!
August 13th, 2015  
Cool shot
August 13th, 2015  
Hi Ian! Love this shot-looks very cool on black
August 14th, 2015  
great shot
August 14th, 2015  
This is great... but wouldn't it have been fabulous to have seen all twelve at once.
August 17th, 2015  
@lhart @essiesue @seattlite @lizzybean @juliac @vignouse

Thank you very much for all your lovely comments.

Richard, there are 18 hurricanes and 6 spitfires flying in the south of England today. It would be wonderful to have seen them all take off!

Ian
August 18th, 2015  
@lhart @essiesue @seattlite @lizzybean @juliac @vignouse

Sorry, today's flight is 18 spitfires and 4 hurricanes, and they flew from Biggin Hill. They just made the national news.

Ian
August 18th, 2015  
I must check on t'interweb later as that would be something to see.
August 18th, 2015  
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