Red Arrows flight path today: What is route, full timings, and schedule as iconic jets to fly over UK skies for VJ Day - where to see
The iconic Red Arrows will be flying over UK skies today.
On Friday, August 15 the RAF's flying aerobatic team will be flying directly over Cannock, Penn, Kingswinford and Stourbridge on their way to the Eastbourne Display from the National Memorial Arboretum Flypast. The flightpath for the Red Arrows shows them flying through the West Midlands between 1pm and 1.15pm on Friday.
Timings and route of the flight is subject to change due to weather or weather requirements, but it is expected that the planes will first be visible over Cannock at 1.06pm, Penn at 1.08pm, Kingswinford at 1.10pm and Stourbridge shortly after that before heading to Eckington for 1.14pm. A Spitfire, Hurricane and Lancaster, operated by the RAF Coningsby-based team, will join the Red Arrows for the flypast that will mark the 80th anniversary of VJ Day, which saw the end of the Second World War.
Red Arrows timings today
- National Memorial Arboretum: 1.04pm
- West of Upper Longdon: 1.05pm
- Wolverhampton: 1.08pm
- West of Eckington: 1.14pm
- North West of Withington: 1.17pm
- South East of Calne: 1.22pm
- South of Bath:1.25pm
- Shillingstone: 1.31pm
- Bournemouth: 1.34pm
- South of Bournemouth: 4.13pm
- Nettlestone Point: 4.18pm
- South of Brighton: 4.25pm
- NE of Lewes: 4.28pm
- NW of Wilmington - 4.29pm
- Eastbourne Display - 4.30pm
- Oversea: 4.54pm
- Bournemouth: 5.18pm