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Spring Bank Holiday is the debut for the series of air displays held at Duxford, part of the Imperial War Museum. We have not actually paid for tickets and gone onto the site for a long time, as it has been previously possible to view the planes from some byways close to the runway. Now these are always barricaded off for 'health and safety reasons', so we sprung for some tickets to attend the actual event. And it maybe worth the extra money for the atmosphere and buzz you get from being on site. It was a beautiful day, too warm for late May but lovely to sit in the sun watching the show. It got off to a real bang with the arrival of a Typhoon which did a spectacular display to the tune of its own music. This was followed by a display from the Harvard trainer and a pair of Strikemasters. Then an Auster Mk6 and a real star, the Apache helicopter with a few pyrotechnics thrown in. Another helicopter, the Augusta Bell Sioux. The...

We are fairly local to Duxford and not willing to pay the high price for entry to the air shows for all the family. However we know of some nice roads to park the car in and watch, and the pictures were taken from one of these. I am not sure of the planes in the first picture. The second is  Lockheed Martin C-130J Hercules followed by a number of Supermarine Spitfires and a Messershmitt. The helicopter is an Augusta Westland Apache which was flying  practically upside down. The air display was by the Patrouille de France team flying Dassualt/Dornier Alpha Jets. Finally there are some Douglas C-47A Skytrains which disgorged the Red Devils parachutists. I took the photographs with my old Sigma 400mm lens.