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On 2 September 1995, a Royal Air Force Hawker Siddeley Nimrod aircraft crashed into Lake Ontario during an air display, killing all seven crew members on board. This was the second loss of an RAF Nimrod in four months, following the ditching of a Nimrod R1 in May.
A flypast is a ceremonial or honorific flight by an aircraft or group of aircraft. The term flypast is used in the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth. In the United States, the terms flyover and flyby are used. Flypasts are often tied in with Royal or state events, anniversaries, celebrations, and occasionally funerary or memorial occasions.
Permanent memorial sculptures depicting the missing man aerial formation exist at Randolph Air Force Base (Missing Man Monument, 1977, Mark Pritchett) in San Antonio, Texas, [11] [12] Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam (Missing Man Memorial, 1995) in Honolulu, Hawaii, and Valor Park (Missing Man Formation, 2000) near the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio.
A Canadian Forces spokesman said that the CF-104, flown by Capt. Alan J. Stephenson, 27, was in a formation of five Starfighters, and that he was to do a solo display. He had done two complete circuits and had leveled off for a low-speed fly-past when the plane malfunctioned. He ejected safely. [108]
The flypast lasted for two minutes and thirty seconds rather than the scheduled six minutes. At least 10 helicopters took part in the flypast alongside a Red Arrows squad of nine Hawk jet. (BBC)
2nd up to 3rd week of April - General practice run-through in the Alabino training field, including flypast; 4th week of April until 2 days before Victory Day - practice runs in Red Square right up to the general practice run 26–30 April, 2–6 May - evening parade practice run-throughs; 4–5 May - Air flypast practice runs
A first general practice run (without the flypast) was held in the Alabino grounds on April 7, 2014, with another run finished on the 11th. April 16, 2014 saw the first joint practice run of the parade at the Alabino grounds including the fly past column for the first time. [4]
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