It's the 80th aniversary of the World War 2 - Battle of Britain.. Nearly 3000 aircrew from 14 countries fought against Nazi Germanys air force - the Luftwaffe...
Nearly 4000 airframes destroyed, over 4000 Airmen killed, over 1000 injured. Civilian casualties were high, 14,000 killed and over 20,000 wounded..
The Royal Air Force have a display team based at RAF Coningsby dedicated to the Battle of Britain and they fly a Supermarine Spitfire (Including one that fought in the BOB), Hawker Hurrican's and what many would say the main attraction of the Avro Lancaster bomber.
PS915 top - Spitfire PZ865 bottom - Hurrican
PZ865 Hurrican
The worlds only flying Lancasters fly over the Derwent dams, where they practised the famous Dambusters raid.
The RAF painted up a Typhoon in ww2 livery and did a synchro pair display with Spitfire Mk XVI TE311.
