Beat the queues at www.flywheelfestival.com and save money with discounted online tickets for June 20/21st historic motoring, aviation and lifestyle festival
TICKETS INCLUDE OFFICIAL FLYWHEEL SOUVENIR PROGRAMME WORTH £5
Tickets are now on sale for FLYWHEEL at Bicester Heritage on 20th and 21st June, the first major public event to be held at the UK’s best preserved Second World War bomber station – Bicester Heritage in Oxfordshire.
FLYWHEEL offers the very best of historic motoring, aviation and military heritage action. Demonstrations by historic road and racing cars, military vehicles and iconic classic aircraft will create a weekend of nostalgia and excitement; fortified by the sights and sounds of period engineering and style.
A one-day ticket costing £25 (£30 if bought on the gate) will allow visitors to get up close to feature displays of historic cars, aircraft and military vehicles from the World War One; Inter-War; World War Two ; and the early 1950s periods. In addition live music from singers and bands representing the various eras will add yet more to the atmosphere, while a vintage trade fair will offer period costumes, accessories and souvenirs.
IN THE AIR
Among displays and flypasts from historic aircraft, the weekend will mark the return to Bicester of the sole flying Bristol Blenheim bomber. The aircraft entered RAF service at the airfield in 1938 and Bicester subsequently became the centre of operational training for the type. The FLYWHEEL festival will mark the first return of a Blenheim to its former base in over 75 years and a display on each day will be complemented by other wartime aircraft including the iconic Spitfire.
Other flying attractions will include the Great War Display Team, who plan to field a record ten World War One types in a swirling ‘dogfight’ display as would have been seen from the trenches 100 years ago. Meanwhile the free spirit of the 1930s golden age of flying will be represented by the Tiger Nine, all-Tiger Moth flying display team and line-ups of aircraft from the Vintage Aircraft Club and Vintage Glider Club.
ON THE ROAD AND TRACK
One of the unique features of FLYWHEEL is a series of demonstrations by historic road and racing cars on a section of Bicester Heritage’s wartime perimeter track. A hand-picked selection of vintage machinery including pre-war Alvis, Bentley and Bugatti racers, as well as later machines such as Aston Martins and Jaguars, Vanwalls, Maseratis and Ferraris, with a backdrop unfettered by grandstands or Armco barriers, will invoke the spirit of great motor racing endeavours.
BACKDROP OF GENUINE WARTIME BUILDINGS
Military vehicle enthusiasts and re-enactor groups are planning to take full advantage of Bicester airfield’s unique ‘timewarp’ background of hangars, air-raid shelters and wartime buildings, which remained barely altered between the end of WW2 and the site’s acquisition by Bicester Heritage at the end of 2013. Displays of historic vehicles and equipment set against these ionic buildings will add yet further to the special weekend which is, uniquely, FLYWHEEL.
Advance discounted tickets are available now online at: www.flywheelfestival.com
