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Premium Gift Pack
Our Premium Gift Pack includes a stylish gift box, which holds your personalised gift voucher and your activity voucher guide booklet. The premium choice.
£4.99 (+ £3.95 shipping charge)
Standard Gift Pack
Our Standard Gift Pack comes with a smart envelope that includes your personalised gift voucher and your activity voucher guide booklet.
Included in the £3.95 shipping charge
E Voucher
Our E Voucher is an instant voucher delivered by email, with your personalised email message and a downloadable .pdf of your personalised gift voucher.
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What's Included
- Introduction and safety briefing
- Fly wing to wing with the spitfire in a 1940s de Havilland Dragon Rapide
- Champagne toast after your flight
- Take a close up ground viewing of the spitfire and rapide with the opportunity to photograph them
- Pose for a professional photograph of you beside the spitfire
- Meet the pilots to find out more about these historic aircraft
- Lunch voucher for lunch at The Workshop
- View the IWM Duxford's historic and rare aviation collection
- Flight time in the rapide is approx 30 minutes with the spitfire flying alongside for approx 15 minutes
- Allow four hours for this experience, plus time to view the rest of the museum
- Complimentary premium gift packaging from Into The Blue
The ultimate wing to wing Spitfire package which includes all the content of the Wing Commander package, plus:
- Private guided tour of the Battle of Britain exhibition
- 20 min Flight in a Tiger Moth and the opportunity to take the controls
- Loan of leather helmet, jacket and goggles for the flight
- Signed logbook style record of your flight
- Personal DVD of your Tiger Moth flight
- Professional photo of you inside the Tiger Moth
- Free entry to all public areas of IWM Duxford
- Complimentary premium gift packaging from Into The Blue
What Can I Expect
The ultimate in wing-to-wing experience packages at Duxford! A full-day of vintage aviation fun involving Spitfires, Dragon Rapides and Tiger Moths at historic Duxford, with these ‘Wing Commander' and ‘Air Commodore' experiences.
The highlight of both packages is the wing to wing flight in the Dragon Rapide alongside the Spitfire. As you are cruising along, you'll suddenly hear the unmistakable sound of that glorious Merlin engine. And then she comes into view. This wonderful Second World War Spitfire is flying directly level with you. Simply magnificent.
The aircraft you will see and get up close to will most probably be N3200, a Mk1a Spitfire that was first delivered to this very airfield in April 1940, when she was placed with No 19 Squadron at RAF Duxford.
Spitfire N3200 flew only one mission, leading the charge to protect the Allied Forces during the 'Operation Dynamo' evacuation. Shot down over Calais, N3200 languished in a sandy grave at Sangatte, until she was discovered and recovered in 1986. Gloriously restored, she is now a magnificent sight flying in the air above her original home.
Once landed, the fun of these Ultimate experiences continues with a Champagne reception and ground tour of the Spitfire and the Dragon Rapide. With the pilots in attendance, you can ask questions and find out what it's like to pilot these incredible vintage planes.
You will also pose for a professional photograph of yourself next to the Spitfire, which is included in your package. You will then head for a tasty lunch at the airfield restaurant, after which you are free to explore the IWM Duxford.
If you go for the Air Commodore version of these Spitfire flying experiences, your incredible extras include a flight over Duxford in a lovely vintage Tiger Moth and the added bonus of a guided tour around the Battle of Britain exhibition. You also get a signed logbook and photo too.
These Ultimate Wing to Wing Experiences are truly outstanding packages for those who are passionate about aviation.
And if you love your Spitfires and Dakotas, why not become a member of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight club to help keep these wonderful warbirds flying?
When Is It Available
- Flights take place on one selected weekend each month from April through to October
- All flights are weather dependent but don't worry if your flight is cancelled you can re-book for a convenient time
Location
- IWM Duxford, Cambridgeshire
- The venue is just off the M11 making it easily accessible from London
Suitable For
- Maximum weight 18 stone
- Under 16s must be accompanied on the airfield by an adult
Spectators
- You are welcome to bring friends and family along however they will need to enter the museum to view the flight
- Entry to IWM Duxford is compulsory for participants and accompanying guests
- Guests will enjoy half price entry to the site, children under 5 go free
- There's a cafe on site
Anything Else
- Voucher holders receive free entry to IWM Duxford with discounted entrance for accompanying friends and family
- You will be in a small group of up to 8 people in the Dragon Rapide
- A visit to Duxford is a day out in itself so leave plenty of time to look around
- Quoted flight times are chock to chock
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