Re: North Wales News..................Red Arrows TODAY ? FLYPAST
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Quote from: SteveH on Yesterday at 02:36:05 PM
UPDATE on above.
LIVE: Pictures and updates from Red Arrows display at RAF Valley
The aerobatics team are having a training rehearsal over Anglesey ref DP
Pictures and videos....... https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/live-pictures-updates-red-arrows-18762824
Well Llandudno just had a Red Arrows fly past, complete with coloured smoke, and looks like they are heading home to Scampton, along the coast .. stock photo, came over to fast
I did not realise yesterdays flypast was in honor of a local hero...............
Red Arrows perform breathtaking flypast for a North Wales Battle of Britain heroThe acrobatic display team saluted Flt Lt Glyn Griffiths who shot down six German aircraft during the autumn of 1940, two of them in one day.
The Red Arrows paid a special tribute to a North Wales war hero by performing a flypast over his home town.
Flight Lieutenant Glyn Griffiths DFM, from Llandudno was a Hurricane pilot in the Battle of Britain.
"Born in 1918 in the town he worked at Llandudno Urban District Council’ s gas department before joining the RAF just before the war.
A sergeant during the Battle of Britain, flying with 17 Squadron, Glyn was awarded the Distinguished Flying Medal (DFM). The London Gazette of November 1940 announced the award of his DFM: "This airman has shown splendid courage and initiative in his attacks against the enemy. He has destroyed at least six of their aircraft, two of which were shot down in one day’".
The Mayor of Llandudno, Cllr Angie O’Grady said: “We were thrilled and honoured to see the Red Arrows in the skies above Llandudno today.
"Battle of Britain pilot Flight Lieutenant Glyn Griffiths is one of the town’s most famous sons and it was very poignant for us to see the fighter pilots of today’s RAF fly over the town to remember one of their own.
"We are very grateful to the RAF for arranging this very special flypast. “
Griffiths had not recovered from his injuries before the war ended. He retired from the RAF in 1946 as a Flight Lieutenant and died in 1983.
Full article.........
https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/red-arrows-breathtaking-flypast-north-18766027Photos over the Orme and West shore....... and note the shadows on West shore beach......