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DH Rapide Poppy Drop at Duxford

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DH Rapide Poppy Drop at Duxford

Post by AirbusA320 » Sun Nov 11, 2018 8:43 pm

Duxford held the remembrance service today to mark the end of World War 1 and as part of this DH Rapide G-AKIF dropped poppies during a fly past
he a few pics from the flypast

ImageIMG_5280 by Mark, on Flickr

ImageIMG_5285 by Mark, on Flickr

ImageIMG_5286 by Mark, on Flickr

ImageIMG_5289 by Mark, on Flickr

ImageIMG_5294 by Mark, on Flickr


Concorde also took part and the nose was lowered in remembrance of those who lost their lives during the conflict

ImageIMG_5278 by Mark, on Flickr

Thanks for viewing this pics
Hope was ok posting this

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Re: DH Rapide Poppy Drop at Duxford

Post by Nighthawke » Sun Nov 11, 2018 10:35 pm

Highly appropriate Mark. Quite a stark but fitting contrast between the poppy drop and the Concorde droop. Nicely captured. Just watched last night's Festival of Remembrance and now catching up with this morning's Cenotaph ceremony. Never fails to cause wet eyes.

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