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Families and younger fans can enjoy Flying Days: Showtime at IWM Duxford. - Credit: IWM Ahead of this weekend's first Flying Day of the year, IWM Duxford has announced the final six air displays of the season. Tickets have gone on sale for the themed aerial display events at the historic Cambridgeshire airfield and a host of other events.  Flying days at Europe’s largest air museum this summer include events devoted to model aircraft and the Spitfire heroes of Squadron 19. A Supermarine Spitfire at Duxford. - Credit: IWM This summer sees the return of ‘In The Cockpit’ experien...

Monday Monday marks the return of racegoers in England and the best race of the day is the £40,000 Weatherbys ePassport Stakes (6.50), in which last year's Sprint Cup winner Dream Of Dreams takes on just two rivals.  There is no Irish racing but there is a Group 3 at Chantilly, where the Prix Texanita (1.35) could showcase some emerging stars. The prime candidate is the Francois Rohaut-trained Suesa, who is unbeaten in three, including the Prix Sigy in the same grade last time.  Carlisle, Redcar and Leicester also host cards in Britain, while there is afternoon jumps fixture at Ffos ...

A hoped-for recovery of a historic and intact aircraft that's rested at the bottom of Azure Lake for more than six decades will be delayed at least until next year. Penny McAninch, who operates GP Recover Services along with husband Gary, said work got in the way in what is essentially a volunteer effort to retrieve the plane. "It's been delayed until next spring," she said. While on an insurance job in 2009 scouting for a Private Explorer aircraft that crash landed in Azure Lake and sunk the same summer, the company discovered a Tiger Moth biplane nearby on the lake bottom. Local residents a...

The biplane has a wingspan of nearly six feet and was one of almost 20 models hand built by Dundee aviation enthusiast Olly McLaren.

Drake was patron of the South Canterbury Aero Club, and a foundation member of the South Canterbury aviation Heritage Centre where he was the history advisor for 20 years. South Canterbury Aviation Heritage Centre’s Hamish Cameron, who is responsible for art and design, said Drake knew who flew what, all the pilots, and the different airlines and operations. Natasha Martin/Stuff Brevet Club South Canterbury president Doug Drake speaks at the Air Force Remembrance Day, hosted by St Mary's Church at Craighead Diocesan School chapel, in 2012. A portion of the heritage centre is named after ...