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A ceremonial or celebratory form of aerial salute is the flypast ( known as a " flyover " in the United States ), which often follows major parades such as the annual Trooping the Colour in the United Kingdom or the French défilé du 14 juillet.
A speculation that his opponents organised a flypast at his funeral, giving rise to the missing man formation, is most unlikely and totally unsupported by any contemporary evidence.
A mass flypast is cancelled due to poor weather.
The formation is often called the " missing man flyby " or " flypast ".
Sidney Poitier's initial flypast and landing from a Whirlwind helicopter were filmed aboard another Type 15 frigate, HMS Wakeful, whose F159 pennant number is clearly visible.
On 15 September 1945, the fifth anniversary of the greatest day of the Battle of Britain, Bader, now a group captain, is given the honour of leading eleven other battle survivors and a total of 300 aircraft in a flypast over London.

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The aerial display was divided into 3 flypast windows:

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The station became a satellite to RAF Wittering on 31 March 2011 with a civic parade and flypast to mark the disbandment of No 1 Sqn RAF, 800 NAS, 801 NAS and JFH.
Still instructing in England following the end of the war, Cobby was chosen to lead the AFC's Anzac Day flypast over London before the Prince of Wales on 25 April 1919, in concert with a parade by Australian soldiers.
These festivities culminated in the 4 June event on The Mall in London, when over one million attended the parade and flypast.

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The procession begins at Guildhall ; the Lord Mayor joins the rear from his official residence, Mansion House, having watched a flypast.
The final day of the station saw the gates being opened to the public-anybody with photographic ID was welcomed onto the station to have a look around and view the final closing ceremony, which saw a flypast by four RAF Jaguars, and a solitary Hawker Hurricane from the Imperial War Museum Duxford.
Acting on behalf of the town's Bicentennial Committee, Royal Australian Air Force officers Andrew Cairns and Jock MacGowan constructed the release cage from PVC pipe, purchased and numbered the ducks, printed tickets, and even arranged a helicopter flypast.
On the 15th December 2010, a 16 aircraft flypast from RAF Cottesmore marked the final operational flights of British Harriers.
During the day the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight performed a flypast which was followed by an acrobatic display from two Tutor aircraft.
The pallbearers were six high-ranking officers, a break from the norm of using soldiers drafted from the King's Guard, and as they carried the coffin from of the church, four RNoAF F-16's performed a Missing man flypast.
It was based in Cyprus from 1952 to 1955 as part of a Commonwealth peace keeping force in the area, although the unit travelled within Europe and Africa, providing a flypast on Queen Elizabeth II's accession, and being in Kenya at the time of the Mau Mau action.
The final flypast involved 3 CH-47 Super D Chinooks and 2 AS332 Super Puma helicopters followed by a C-130 Hercules, a Fokker F50 and a Grumman E-2C Hawkeye and behind it was a KC-135R escorted by 4 F-5S / T Tiger II and the last few planes was 5 F-16D Block 52 + Fighting Falcons from 145 squadron performing stunts.

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In front of more than one million people, the Royal Family assembled on the balcony of the Centre Room of Buckingham Palace and watched a flypast consisting of every type of Royal Air Force aircraft in service ( 27 in all ), the Concorde, and the Red Arrows.

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In 2008, a flypast of 55 aircraft commemorated the RAF's 90th anniversary.
Sopwith's 100th birthday was marked by a flypast of military aircraft over his home.
The final four aircraft flew to the station, conducting a flypast over Wiltshire.
It includes a flypast of 300 British aircraft over the city that stretches for 60 miles ( 97 km ), led by a Hawker Hurricane that had fought in the Battle of Britain in 1940.
* September 15 – A flypast of 300 aircraft takes place over London to celebrate Battle of Britain Day on the fifth anniversay of the decisive day of combat in the Battle of Britain.
The raid was successful due to the fact that the Royal Netherlands Air Force was called in, with 6 F-104 Starfighter aircraft making very low flypast manoeuvres in full afterburn.
He was accorded an Air Force funeral, with a flypast by seventeen aircraft.
The funeral was followed by a flypast of five replica First World War aircraft ; British and French buglers played the Last Post and Reveille ; and a bell was tolled 113 times, once for each year of his life.
In 1953 the Squadron aircraft flew in formation in the flypast on the occasion of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.

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A flypast of Royal Canadian Air Force craft then occurs at the start of a 21-gun salute, upon the completion of which a choir sings " In Flanders Fields ".
Four white Tutors were finally flown together at the Abbotsford Air Show, followed by a flypast in Winnipeg.
Those at the flying field look up to see a flypast by six English Electric Lightnings overhead.
Pavarotti gave a rendition of " Nessun dorma " at his final performance, the finale of the Opening Ceremony of the 2006 Torino Winter Olympics, although it was later revealed that he had lip-synched the specially pre-recorded performance as he was very ill. His Decca recording of the aria was played at his funeral during the flypast by the Italian Air Force.
A lavish flypast 14 miles long passed overhead at a speed of 310 mph, concluded by Concorde escorted by the Red Arrows.
* 22 September – The South African Air Force Museum's only flying T-6G Harvard crashes into power lines during a flypast at the Africa Aerospace and Defence 2002 being held at AFB Waterkloof, Pretoria.
On 6 July 1935, King George V performed the first Royal Review of the Royal Air Force, in which 12 ( B ) Squadron led the Light Bomber Wing flypast at RAF Mildenhall.

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On 27 September 2009, to mark the 50th anniversary of the closing of the airport, an 11-plane flypast ( including 8 biplanes ) took place ( although it had initially been announced that there would be 12 aeroplanes flying ).

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The museum was celebrated with a visit a flypast by three P-51 Mustangs.
On the second and last day of the show the A320 and the Spitfire performed a flypast as the closing act.
The Belgian military attended and a flypast of four F-16 jets in missing man formation was made.
Following a 41-gun salute by the King's Troop in Green Park, she leads the Royal Family on to the palace balcony for a Royal Air Force flypast.
Her 80th birthday in 2006 was marked by a large flypast of 40 planes led by the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight and culminating with the Red Arrows.
Finally, the Queen and the Royal Family on the palace balcony witness a flypast by the Royal Air Force, often featuring the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight and the Red Arrows.
The Douglas Dakota of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight conducted a flypast.
Although two-thirds of the fighter squadrons defending Britain in the battle operated Hawker Hurricanes, not a single Hurricane takes part in the flypast.
It traditionally ends with a colourful flypast by Indian Air Force jets in a tiranga formation.

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