![]() ![]() Will you be braving the rain to head out and watch the coronation? Email watched the flypast for the Coronation on the Mall outside the palace despite heavy rain The news, which came as a disappointment to many royal fans, followed a soldier having to pause and tip rainwater out of his tuba while marching back to Buckingham Palace after the King and Queen's Coronation ceremony at Westminster Abbey on Saturday. ![]() Instead, helicopters from the three services and the Red Arrows took part in the display which lasted for around two-and-a-half minutes. More than 60 aircraft from the Royal Navy, British Army and Royal Air Force had been due to take part in the flypast, but 'unsuitable weather conditions' meant that plan had to be abandoned. The RAF's Red Arrows display team trailed red, white and blue smoke as their Hawk jets flew over the crowds gathered on The Mall and outside the palace. The flypast will last for two minutes and 30 seconds.' London has been drenched by heavy rain with storms around the UK on Saturday, and the previously-scheduled flypast had to be drastically cut back in response.Īn MoD statement said: 'Due to unsuitable weather conditions, the coronation flypast will now be formed of helicopters and the Royal Air Force aerobatic team The Red Arrows. The military flypast over Buckingham Palace to mark the coronation of the King and Queen was scaled down because of the weather and was formed of just helicopters and The Red Arrows, the Ministry of Defence said. ![]()
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