Over 70 aircrafts will soar through the sky in extended six-minute flypast to mark Queen’s Jubilee

The Queen is expected to watch from the palace balcony as more than 70 aircrafts complete Her Majesty’s birthday parade with a six-minute flypast, it has been announced. 

Dozens of aircraft from the Royal Navy, the Army and Royal Air Force will soar over Buckingham Palace on Thursday, June 2 as part of Platinum Jubilee celebrations, the Ministry of Defence said.

It will take six minutes to fly over the crowds and is expected to include more than three times the number of aircraft which took part in the Queen’s last birthday parade flypast in central London in 2019.

Following Trooping the Colour, 18 family members will be on the balcony: The Queen; Charles and Camilla; William and Kate with George, Charlotte and Louis; Edward and Sophie and their children Louise and James; Princess Anne…