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Seesul, make it happen, man!
It's an excellent museum - you'll be able to spend all day there and still not see everything, especially if there any Warbirds flying because you'll be able to bath in the sights and sound of Merlins, Hercules, Twin Wasps, Cyclones.........and the English summer (Bring a raincoat!) 8)
You may find this link useful too IWM Duxford - Europe's premier aviation museum
Seesul, I have a particularly soft spot for you Czechs (and the Poles). My first posting in the RAF was to RAF Northolt, which has a close connection to the Poles. Later in my career I was SATCO at RAF Honington in Suffolk. I think it was in 1993 that Honington hosted a visit by various aircraft of the Czech Air Force. They were from various Units that were en-route to Farnborough or Fairford for the UK's annual 'Big Show' that year. But they called in at Honington because of the connection between RAF Honington and 311 Sqn.
Tornadoes from Honington met your guys at the UK boundary and escorted them to the airfield. Now here's where the Story starts! Honington is right next to RAF Lakenheath (then F-111s transitioning to F-15Es) and RAF Mildenhall (various 'Heavy' types). The ATC controlling authority was my unit, Honington. Therefore, we arranged for an 'ex-pat' former Czech aircrew chap who lived locally to be in the Tower to act as 'listener' to tell us what was being said between the Czech aircraft, so that we could be aware of any difficulties that might be developing through misunderstandings, or due to emergencies and as general 'Interpreter' for us.
We kitted him out with a headset, selected his frequencies etc for him and asked him to listen in while we talked to the Mission Leader, whose English was quite good. All was going well until the formation arrived in the circuit. The first 2 Tornadoes flew the circuit and landed when Our Man said:
"They are saying that the first 2 fly VERY tight circuits and they can't follow."We told him to tell them that it was all OK, we had anticipated that and that we were holding Lakenheath and Mildenhall traffic on the ground until all the Czech aircraft were down. This was transmitted to the aircraft, who sounded really surprised and not a little relived when perfect Czech was spoken to them! However, (there's always a However!) they then promptly performed the BIGGEST visual circuits you have EVER seen that seemed to take up most of East Anglia! It is enough to say that the USAF Base Commanders at Lakenheath and Mildenhall were NOT AT ALL impressed at being overflown at low level by a bunch of Floggers, Frogfoots, Fitters and a Cub!!!!! One base, in particular had a real Hissy-Fit!
We noticed that Our Man had gone a bit quiet in all the "excitement", but as he put his headset down and got up from the Control Position we saw he had tears streaming down his face.
"This is a moment that I though that I would never see" he said "Aircraft from my old country landing at their forefathers old Base. Perhaps the Cold War is really over. Thank God."
It was a very emotional moment.
We then met the crews on the Apron. There was much toasting of each other (in Coca Cola), hand shaking, big silly grins and shoulder slapping; nobody could speak each other's languages but the body language and goodwill spoke volumes. After a couple of hours they departed for their destination – overflying Mildenhall at about 1500' on the way, which starting the 'phones ringing off the wall again….
A good day though.
Roman just wrote a couple of friends and hopeful to hear back soon for you and the Famile/friends
Initial look: No direct services thatI can find - Its Luton to St Pancras stn which is co-joined with Kings Cross and then back out from Kings Cross to Cambridge. There is a bus service from Cambridge stn to duxford nearly direct.
Cambridge railway station is served by regular trains from London Kings Cross and London Liverpool Street, with other connections nationwide. Rail passengers can then take the C7 bus service (Monday-Saturday) from outside the station.
See the National Rail website on National Rail Enquiries - Official source for rail information, UK train times and timetables for further details or the First Capital Connect website on First Capital Connect - Home
Cheapest available fare £30.10 ! (Cor!)
This total fare is for 1 Adult.
Will do some more digging for something better if I can
i will be there some where on the sunday
http://www.fighter-collection.com/Legends08.pdf
if you look there you will see the list of planes for the 2 days