Before The Queen departs, she will be treated to a mass flypast of aircraft representing the Royal Air Force's past and present.

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Two Chinook helicopters from RAF Odiham made a flypast during the parade.

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The cortege was accompanied by a 19-gun salute and an RAF flypast as it began its journey to Churchill's final resting place in the Oxfordshire parish churchyard of Bladon.

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Flying Officer Hynam died while taking part in a flypast over Pershore on 25 May 1943 when his plane lost a wing and crashed, damaging the town's Brandy Cask pub.

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As people arrived at the church the Guernsey Scout Band played and the service ended with a flypast by a 29 Squadron Typhoon, marking the Air Commodore's connection to the squadron.

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