A FLYPAST of RAF Tornado jets this week will pay tribute to one of Britain's greatest war-time inventors who pioneered the famous Dambusters raids.

Sir Barnes Wallis, best known for inventing the "bouncing bomb", is being commemorated at a Lake District Hotel.

Scafell Hotel, where the inventor was a regular visitor between the 1940s and 70s, has created a £30,000 suite of rooms in his memory.

The hotel, in the tiny village of Rosthwaite in the Borrowdale Valley, has arranged for a flypast as part of the unveiling ceremony of the suite.

Dignitaries and war veterans are expected from all over the country for the event, as well as representatives from the 617 Squadron Aircrew Association (Veterans) and serving RAF officers.

At around midday on Wednesday there will be a flypast over Lake Derwentwater of one and possibly two RAF Tornado GR4s jets.

The RAF's 617 Dambusters Squadron, which was based at Scampton, near Lincoln, destroyed vast dams across Germany which were powering Hitler's war machine.