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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...