Duxford dates 2023

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Duxford have published their air show dates for 2023
Duxford Summer Air Show | Saturday 24 & Sunday 25 June 2023
Duxford Flying Evening | Saturday 26 August 2023
Battle of Britain Air Show | Saturday 16 & Sunday 17 September 2023
Duxford Flying Finale | Saturday 14 October 2023
https://www.iwm.org.uk/airshows?fbclid= ... aikSpiUK7c

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Hoping to get to three of those dates
Summer BoB and the finale

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jasonT1981 wrote: ↑
Mon 10 Oct 2022, 5:16 pm
Duxford have published their air show dates for 2023
Duxford Summer Air Show | Saturday 24 & Sunday 25 June 2023
Duxford Flying Evening | Saturday 26 August 2023
Battle of Britain Air Show | Saturday 16 & Sunday 17 September 2023
Duxford Flying Finale | Saturday 14 October 2023
https://www.iwm.org.uk/airshows?fbclid= ... aikSpiUK7c
No July date at all?

No May show either, not very inspiring to me.

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Those dates are for air show not flying days.
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Pen Pusher wrote: ↑
Tue 11 Oct 2022, 8:03 am
Those dates are for air show not flying days.
Hold on, I thought the finale wasn't an airshow πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

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Pen Pusher wrote: ↑
Tue 11 Oct 2022, 8:03 am
Those dates are for air show not flying days.
Yes, your right and I now realise that there was no July show this year either, but there was last year, my mistake.

I wonder why they dropped the May airshow date, (after the ill fated 2020 season)? Always a well attended event, from what I recall.

All very strange.

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May 2023 is too tight a window of opportunity for IWM Duxford to get their :poop: together on the raft of organisational issues they have! :face_with_symbols_over_mouth:

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The last few May shows seemed to alternate between really good lineups and seaside-level efforts (including 2020 shaping up to be a cracker before it was cancelled). Hoping this has carried over to the June shows and we get a good show in 2023. Failing that, I'll probably just be doing BoB again.
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Leaves a yawning gap in July. I wonder what they could put in it....?

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FarnboroJohn wrote: ↑
Tue 11 Oct 2022, 10:12 am
Leaves a yawning gap in July. I wonder what they could put in it....?
A long time to wait for any major airshow in 2023. The season gets shorter and shorter. :worried:

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Gt5500 wrote: ↑
Tue 11 Oct 2022, 8:18 am
Pen Pusher wrote: ↑
Tue 11 Oct 2022, 8:03 am
Those dates are for air show not flying days.
Hold on, I thought the finale wasn't an airshow πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚
If it's an airshow, maybe they will actually realise that they need to do some sort of car park management at the end of the show!

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Have they released the dates for exiting the car park yet?

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I was at the last May show in 2019 and it was fantastic. 2x Special scheme F15s, Typhoon, 2x Strikemasters, Provost and Britling Jet Team made a great line up of jets and Chinook, Blades, Apache, Wingwalkers and a nice mixture of Warbirds really made a great show.

Bader's Bus Company was also a lovely display. Not the most flamboyant of displays but a very touching one showing how they over-came adversity to fly display aircraft.

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From the IWM website the evening show and finale are not Air shows but "one day flying events" whatever they are!

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Basically they sit somewhere in the middle. They have more than the couple of hours flying you'd get on a Flying Day, but not the full 5-6 hours you'd get at an Air Show (although the Flying Finale this year was somewhat of an exception in regards to flying display length).
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southyorkshireman wrote: ↑
Tue 11 Oct 2022, 2:33 pm
Have they released the dates for exiting the car park yet?
:rofl: :joy: :rofl:

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shorsley wrote: ↑
Wed 26 Oct 2022, 10:44 am
Basically they sit somewhere in the middle. They have more than the couple of hours flying you'd get on a Flying Day, but not the full 5-6 hours you'd get at an Air Show (although the Flying Finale this year was somewhat of an exception in regards to flying display length).
Not sure we get 5-6 hours anywhere anymore except RIAT!

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IP1960 wrote: ↑
Mon 07 Nov 2022, 9:44 pm
shorsley wrote: ↑
Wed 26 Oct 2022, 10:44 am
Basically they sit somewhere in the middle. They have more than the couple of hours flying you'd get on a Flying Day, but not the full 5-6 hours you'd get at an Air Show (although the Flying Finale this year was somewhat of an exception in regards to flying display length).
Not sure we get 5-6 hours anywhere anymore except RIAT!
indeed. The air shows at Duxford are normally 4ish hours, 5 at most (if you include the landings at the end and take off to hold at the beginning)

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2023 Flying Days have been announced:
VE Day - Sunday 7 May 2023
Commemorating D-Day - Sunday 4 June 2023
The Americans - Friday 28 July 2023
19 Squadron - Saturday 12 August 2023

https://www.iwm.org.uk/airshows

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The first two clash with Old Warden airshows, although I suspect that the Duxford Flying Days tend to attract a largely different demographic.

Being on a Friday, dare we hope for a couple of F-35 flybys for the American-themed one?

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Hi does anyone know the members code for this year.
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helired3 wrote: ↑
Wed 11 Jan 2023, 4:55 pm
Hi does anyone know the members code for this year.
Yes, it's on the members e-mail that has just gone out
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Pen Pusher wrote: ↑
Wed 11 Jan 2023, 5:14 pm
helired3 wrote: ↑
Wed 11 Jan 2023, 4:55 pm
Hi does anyone know the members code for this year.
Yes, it's on the members e-mail that has just gone out
Got it now thank you.
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FarnboroJohn wrote: ↑
Tue 11 Oct 2022, 10:12 am
Leaves a yawning gap in July. I wonder what they could put in it....?
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Are the Fridays before a show weekend still a normal day with no different ticket needed?

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