Bournemouth Air Festival

[Melman Giraffe]

It's nearly that time of year again...


Thursday 28th August- Sunday 31st August

What's on.....

IN THE AIR
The Air Festival flying kicks off at 1.25pm on Thursday with 95 year old wingwalker Tom Lackey. On Friday and Saturday the flying starts at 12.30pm and on Sunday the flying starts at 11.45pm.

Night Air flying displays start from 7.15pm each evening.

Follow the links below to find out a bit more about the aircraft and what day they are flying at this year’s Air Festival…

The Red Arrows – Thursday / Friday/ Saturday / Sunday – Apprearing on all four days of the Festival this year

The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight - Saturday / Sunday – Featuring two Canadian Lancasters, Dakota, Hurricane and Spitfire

The Vulcan - Saturday – The XH558 AVRO Vulcan

Hunter Jet – Miss Demeanour - Friday / Saturday

Sally-B – Friday / Saturday / Sunday – B-17 Flying Fortress Sally-B

Canberra – Sunday – English electric PR9 jet

Sea Vixen – Sunday – De Havilland Sea Vixen DN110 FAW

The RAF Typhoon - Friday – Royal Air Force Eurofighter jet

The RAF Tucano - Thursday / Friday / Saturday – The Tucano T1 jet

The RAF Tutor - Thursday / Friday / Saturday / Sunday – A Grob Tutor aircraft

The RAF Chinook - Thursday / Friday / Saturday / Sunday – RAF HC2 Chinook

Rolls Royce Spitfire - Thursday / Friday / Saturday – Supermarine Spitfire PR Mk XIX-PS853

The Royal Navy Blackcats - Thursday / Friday / Saturday / Sunday – Helicopter display team

The Royal Navy Merlin - Thursday / Friday / Saturday – RN Merlin HM1


So who's going?

[Paul.B]

Yep - Arriving Friday evening and staying until end of flying Sunday. Staying at the 'Langtry Manor' in East Cliff, so only a short walk from the beach.

[Melman Giraffe]

You will get a great view from The East Cliff. We stayed at the Miramar a couple of years ago and spent most of the weekend watching from the lawn on East Cliff with a cold beer

[Andy_vx]

My Ship will also be there for the weekend, HMS Westminster which should also have a Merlin embarked.

I believe the ship is open to visitors so anyone wanting a tour give me a shout and i'll show you round.

[Melman Giraffe]

Andy_vx said:

My Ship will also be there for the weekend, HMS Westminster which should also have a Merlin embarked.

I believe the ship is open to visitors so anyone wanting a tour give me a shout and i'll show you round.

Hi Andy


Would love to look round, would kids be welcome?


Let me know

[Andy_vx]

Depends on their age, i think the limit is normally about 8 just because there's loads of ladders and trip hazards etc. I'm not 100% on the plan as i'm off atm but i'll post up the details here when i'm know.

[Paul.B]

Andy_vx said:

Depends on their age, i think the limit is normally about 8 just because there's loads of ladders and trip hazards etc. I'm not 100% on the plan as i'm off atm but i'll post up the details here when i'm know.

Please keep us posted.

[Melman Giraffe]

Paul.B said:

Andy_vx said:

Depends on their age, i think the limit is normally about 8 just because there's loads of ladders and trip hazards etc. I'm not 100% on the plan as i'm off atm but i'll post up the details here when i'm know.

Please keep us posted.

Yep please let us know. My two boys are 8 and 11


Cheers

[cptsideways]

We shall be there, hopefully out at sea on a boat Its an annual pilgrimage for us weather permitting we will chilling out amongst the waves.

[Melman Giraffe]

Not sure what the weather will be, fingers crossed we get another heat wave

[T40ORA]

Andy_vx said:

Depends on their age, i think the limit is normally about 8 just because there's loads of ladders and trip hazards etc. I'm not 100% on the plan as i'm off atm but i'll post up the details here when i'm know.

Yeah, please do keep us posted. I'm going Saturday and Sunday with the wife, and a pal from Belgium. Would be great to have a look round.

[Paul.B]

Andy_vx said:

My Ship will also be there for the weekend, HMS Westminster which should also have a Merlin embarked.

I believe the ship is open to visitors so anyone wanting a tour give me a shout and i'll show you round.

My best mates son is an engineer on board. I thought he was posted on HMS Westminster and Paul confirmed it today. A guy called Chris Walke?

[Andy_vx]

Hi everyone, everyone at work is still on leave but from what I've gathered the ship will run a shuttle boat from the pier out to the ship. I think it's only the upper deck that's open to the public but if I'm not busy I will be able to take you below decks.

Still not 100% on our routines but I expect we will run a 50% ships company whilst everyone else is ashore. If people want to pm me their numbers I'll do my best to arrange a proper tour.

Yeah I know of Chris walke, only a small ship of about 180 personnel.

[Paul.B]

Andy - YHM

(The PH system rarely works for me so you may not have it)

[Andy_vx]

Had an email from cptsideways and T400ra. Nothing from you Paul.

Email me @ [e-mail]

[Paul.B]

Mail sent mate

[Melman Giraffe]

Hi Andy

YHM

[SydneyBridge]

Paul.B said:

Yep - Arriving Friday evening and staying until end of flying Sunday. Staying at the 'Langtry Manor' in East Cliff, so only a short walk from the beach.

I worked in a hotel opposite Langtry Manor (now flats) when I was at university 20 years ago... nice and easy to walk to the top of the cliffs and down to the beach from there.

Cannot wait for the Saturday and hopefully the Vulcan will not be cancelled as last year

[Paul.B]

Andy_VX - Did you get my second email mate?

Cheers

[Andy_vx]

No Paul I don't think I received an email from you. I will most likely email everyone from my work account as we sail tomorrow. So keep an eye out for a. Mod.UK address. Paul I don't know why I'm not getting your emails? Try again.