The videos from the flypast look very bumpy 
Chinooks are bumpy.
We actually have a prescribed list of “acceptable” vibration levels on our usage monitors that we have to check IAW a book called the 5G1.
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Yeah, the time I had the pleasure of flying in one the weather was pretty good, and even then it was still bumpy 
I mean, huge thread drift…
People don’t think it be like it is, but it do.
Very bumpy. I’ve only actually flown in one once. So doubly disappointed.
10 thousand parts, rotating around an oil leak…waiting for metal fatigue to set in…
Much prefer fixed wing…
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DCOM got a backseat in a herc, youre just not important enough
Yup. Well aware I’m simply some dirt on a cog in the depths of the machine.
Back to the topic…
I love this photo on the LaSER Facebook page:
Cadet’s, right at the front of the crowd with the King behind them, doing what Air Cadets do best; Looking up in the sky at aircraft 
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It’s not a proper aircraft if it can’t fly sideways
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One of “mine” was there - got a glimpse on TV. 
Didn’t he fly Phantoms too?
Even if he did… Photo is rotary… Therefore… Rotary is cool.
The RAF IIRC had a problem recruiting for fast jets during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as the helicopter force in particular Chinooks as that was the place perceived to be where all the action was.
Trickery! CGI! Mirrors! Sorcery!
But damn good nonetheless!!
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And fear of what the GSM London District would say if they got it wrong.
Or back to Farnborough onto a G5 the way he arrived
So according to Social Media all of the Marching Contingents did the 12 ranks into 6 move but only the RN was televised.