This year has seen the Boeing Chinook HC6A variant displayed for the first time by the team who have had a very busy summer fitting in displays around their normal operations from RAF Odiham in Hampshire.
The team fully entered into the spirit of the event dropping five times over the four days including an appearance during Night Air. Every display they did was slightly different with variations on canopy work and also different flags. Bournemouth saw the first public jump with a square foot regimental flag on the Thursday plus a stunning evening jump with pyrotechnics streaming from the parachutists feet on Friday.
In the Royal Air Force and Armistice centenary year, the Air Festival took on a significant commemorative and heritage theme. The Jet age was certainly celebrated in style with five classic jets in the displays. On Saturday they performed a combined routine with all three aircraft starting with a solo by Kenneth Aarkvisla in the MiG. He was then joined by the Vampires for a short tail-chasing dogfight before a formation pass and a final pairs routine from the Vampires.
On Sunday however, the classic jets closed the Air Festival and ahead of the show closing Vampires pairs routine the Strikemasters joined the Historical Squadron for a very rare mixed formation of heritage jets.
Bournemouth has been hoping to present such a formation for a number of years only to be beaten by serviceability and weather. The show was not just about the military with some of the best civilian displays. The Aerosuperbatics Wingwalkers made a welcome return to the Air Festival flying on all four days with their formation pairs display. Bournemouth is great venue for the team who display at eye-level with those watching from the cliff top promenade giving a unique view on their display.
Rich Goodwin certainly made an impression on the Bournemouth crowds with his incredible aerobatic antics in his Pitts S-2S Special. He was joined by two really great formation teams. Their routine is a real crowd pleaser painting graceful shapes in the sky and keeping action in front of the crowd at all times.
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This is the last airworthy B bomber plane in Europe. The first appearance of SallyB was in at the Bournemouth Air Show, and I saw her perform then and remembered her. When she isn't flying, she is available to view at Imperial War Museum Duxford. Only about 47 of these planes remain out of 1, built in time for World War II. They would have been slow and would have required fighter planes to cover for them before they could drop their payload.
Also, SallyB has appeared in a number of films. SallyB top with Dakota and Spitfire bottom. This little nippy plane is very powerful, and the pilot used gravity and the power of the plane to throw it around, causing it to "free-fall" and spin around.
It was a pleasure to watch this little powerful plane. The RAF Chinook displayed again this year with some air maneouvers. I see these a lot, particularly when I lived in Basingstoke as there is a base there, and they were always flying around the town centre and in the evening when it was quieter. In , there was a longer display with these helicopters, which are an icon of Britain's power and can transport supplies and troops.
They have a distinctive sound with their blades, and once you hear them, you know what it is in the sky without looking. The Blades also did a great performance with their aerobatic maneouvers. They are similar to the Red Arrows, and they are a civilian team who have shown off the planes in Europe and the Middle East. The air show has gotten larger with more attractions held not just on the beaches but in the lower gardens near the beachfront too.
Birds of prey and other attractions could be seen this year, and visitors could go inside planes and tanks as in previous years. Music and vintage could be seen and heard, and the event took place over four days. It isn't possible to do everything, so I just watched the planes this time. After grabbing some dinner at Wagamamma's above the Lower Gardens, we headed back to the beach for the dusk show.
An ice cream was the perfect treat for the beach while waiting for the dusk display, and it had already started to melt by the time I walked a few paces. The beach was not nearly as busy with most people staying for the main air show instead of watching the dusk flights.
However, the dusk airshow did happen on the previous nights as well.
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