Red Arrows flypast VJ Day 2020: Where and when to watch the display today
The Red Arrows will take to the skies to perform a UK-wide flypast for the first time in eight years to mark the 75th anniversary of VJ Day on Saturday.
Flying the distinctively scarlet Hawk fast-jets, the royal air force aerobatic team will soar over Edinburgh, Belfast, Cardiff and London in an aerial tribute to commemorate the day Japan surrendered to the Allied Forces on 15 August 1945, signalling the end of the Second World War.
The Red Arrows will pass over Edinburgh at 11.30am, Belfast at 2pm, Cardiff at 2.45pm and London at 5.30pm.
The flight path will include the Royal Hospital Chelsea, the home of the Chelsea Pensioners in London, where three recipients of the Burma Star live in retirement. They will gather outside to watch as the display roars over.
Three Scottish Second World War veterans will meet the pilots during a refuelling stop at Prestwick Airport at 12 noon, and a Welsh veteran will meet them at Cardiff Airport at 3.15pm.
The VJ Day Red Arrow display will be the first such flypast since the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Red Arrows VJ Day route
From Scampton to Prestwick
10.44 Scampton
10.46 East of Lincoln
10.48 North of Horncastle
10.52 South of Keyingham
11.00 South of Biller Howe
11.16 West of Berwick on Tweed
11.29 Edinburgh
11.39 Prestwick refuel
From Prestwick to Cardiff
1.43 Prestwick
1.45 East of Dunure
1.55 North of Lisburn
2.00 West of Ballyrune
2.21 Near Porthdinllaen
2.25 Northwest of Broad Water
2.31 South of Mynydd
2.34 North of Rhyd-y-fro
2.37 North of Cantref Reservoir
2.41 North of Cardiff
2.43 West of Cardiff
2.45 Cardiff
From Cardiff to Scampton via London
5.00 Cardiff
5.04 Near Berrow
5.08 Evercreech
5.11 North of Melksham
5.13 Northwest of Hullavington
5.15 Northwest of Purton
5.17 West Stowell
5.20 West of Newbury
5.21 North of Overton
5.24 Arborfield Garrison
5.27 Near Weybridge
5.28 Richmond
5.30 Chelsea
5.35 Northeast of Danebury
5.39 Hawkedon
5.43 Southwest of Barkway
5.44 Ashwell
5.46 The Shuttleworth Collection
5.50 Northwest of Folksworth
5.51 South of Peterborough
5.54 Donington
5.55 Heckington
5.57 Rowston
5.59 Scampton
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