Farnborough of old

Farnborough of old

Friday 20 August 2010

20 August 2010 1940 70 years on

The 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain is being commemorated by
a reading of one of Churchill's most famous speeches and a fly-past.
Winston Churchill's "so much owed by so many to so few" speech will be
read at 1552 BST,precisely 70 years after he gave the address in Parliament.
The reading outside the Churchill War Rooms will be followed by a Spitfire
and Hurricane fly-past over Whitehall.

70th anniversary of Battle of Britain event Friday in which the Battle of Britain
memorial flight will take in overflights of all airfields involved.
the third flight of the day starts in Kent and heads across London
then heads south from Wycombe around 16 .15


full details

Biggin Hill – Take-off 1540

Cabinet War Offices (1600)

Hendon - 1603

Bentley Priory - 1606

High Wycombe - 1616

Lee on Solent - 1637

Thorney Island - 1644

Westhampnett - 1649

Tangmere - 1651

Ford - 1655

Uxbridge - 1715

Northolt – Land 1720

20.08.1940: Winston Churchill "Never in the field of human conflict was so
much owed by so many to so few"


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