Hawker Hunter and the Tower Bridge incident

Almost every pilot, especially fast jet pilots, have thought of going under a bridge at least once in their flying career. Flt Lt Alan Pollock made this decision within 10 seconds of seeing the Tower Bridge, making him the first jet pilot to do so in history.
The flypast however was intended for an entirely different purpose as Pollock was giving a wake-up call to the British political leadership for its ignorant behaviour towards the Royal Air Force. He departed RAF Tangmere as a 4-ship and peeled off to beat up Dunsfold Airfield which was the Hunter's hub, following it up with a fly-by in front of the British Parliament and tipping his wings to pay homage at the RAF memorial before flying under Tower Bridge. He then proceeded to beat up RAF Wattisham, RAF Marham and RAF Lakenheath before landing at RAF Raynham. These were no ordinary fly-bys since Pollock flew inverted at 200 ft over these bases before being pulled up after landing. This, obviously was his last and final sortie in the RAF.
I made this short edit from a full profile flown in MSFS 2020 from the closest airfield to RAF Tangmere (since it is no longer operational) and flying the whole route. A better job could have been done on the fly-by at the Palace of Westminster but I took only one go at it like Pollock did. With hundreds of hours of low level ground attack behind him, things would have been slow for him at 450 KIAS.
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