Last weekend saw the Flying Legends display at the Imperial War Museum Duxford, held on June 30th and July 1st. The event sees the best of nostalgic planes from the earlier part of the 20th century, as well as exhibitions on ground conflicts and the vintage village, celebrating a time gone by. Duxford is the ideal place to celebrate Bremonts association with aviation, as it has one of the largest collections of WWII warbirds in Europe.
An early Spitfire on the flight line
As well as the flying display and war memorabilia, Bremont holds a flight lounge experience, giving visitors a VIP experience, including luxury marquee and garden on the flight line, gourmet lunches, access to a flight line walk, souvenir brochure and much more. At this year’s event, Maxine Banks-Lyon and Alex Pecko went along as guests of Bremont and to represent Banks Lyon Jewellery and Watches, one of the few official Bremont watch stockists in the North West.
During the day, it was warm and a bit cloudy, no rain though, so a nice break from this summer’s weather! This let everyone attending enjoy an excellent day of air displays and entertainment. Aside from the Bremont hospitality lounge for the VIP guests, there was also a Bremont owners lounge, a great showcase of Bremonts watches and their aviation background.
The Bremonts Owners Lounge. Picture courtesy of Alt1tude.com
Duxford is the ideal place to celebrate Bremonts association with aviation, as it has one of the largest collections of WWII warbirds in Europe. The fantastic air display ran from 2pm to 5.30pm on the Sunday which gave everyone in attendance time to look around the Imperial War Museum at Duxford and all of the attractions on offer. Some of the planes flying over the weekend included various marks of Spitfires, from the early mark 1 version to the late mark 19; three Hawker Sea Furies; a Nieuport 17, Fokker DR1 and Sopwith Triplane in formation; the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Spitfire, Lancaster and Hurricane as well as many other planes. It was also the debut of the War museums P-47G Thunderbolt and a UK first for the Sikorsky S-38 – an American twin engine amphibious aircraft.
Some of the pictures in the blog are courtesy of alt1tude.com – the Bremont watches fan forum.