Bournemouth Air Festival: day two blog

8:59am Friday 31st August 2012 in Latest Photograph of the Author By Sam Shepherd, Digital Projects Coordinator

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Latest

  • Day two of the Bournemouth Air Festival kicked off with the Red Arrows at 2pm today
  • An extra hour of flying was added between 4 and 5.10pm
  • The day ends with fireworks over Bournemouth Pier at 10pm
  • Rizzle Kicks and Newton Faulkner are headliners at the Corona Live Boscombe Pier stage
  • The Red Arrows did an exclusive flypast at 6.30pm
  • All the info you need at bournemouthecho.co.uk/air

8:25pm

That's it for tonight. We will be back with you again tomorrow - don't forget there's still lots going on in the Gardens and by both piers tonight. Also there are fireworks at Bournemouth Pier at 10pm. You can browse all our pictures and video on bournemouthecho.co.uk/air

8:13pm

And last, but by no means least, we have the dazzling SWIP Team Twister Duo. Awesome.

SWIP team Twister duo. Picture: Corin Messer.

8:03pm

O'Briens Flying Circus lighting up the night sky

Flying Circus at the Night Air. Bournemouth Air Festival 2012. Picture: Corin Messer.

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The Tigers Parachute Display Team before they landed safely on the beach

The Tigers Parachute Display Team

7:44pm

And here's our video round-up of today's day flying:

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First up for Night Air is the Spitfire

Spitfire. Bournemouth Air Festival 2012. Picture: corin Messer.

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We have lots of pictures from today in our gallery. Take a look here

7:07pm

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The Red Arrows just did an exclusive flyover. Just under half an hour to go until the Night Air display starts, meanwhile the lucky ticketholders are getting ready to dance the night away at the Boscombe Corona Stage to the sounds of Rizzle Kicks and Newton Faulkner.

6:42pm

6:25pm

We had a chat with Flt Lt Doug Smith, team manager for the Tornado Role Demo, earlier today. He told us why they think Bournemouth is so special:

6:13pm

Wondering what's happening tonight? You can see the Night Air schedule here

5:46pm

We'll have a video round-up of the second day at the Air Festival online shortly and a Night Air video for you later this evening.

5:30pm

The day flying may be over but there's another spectacular Night Air display to come starting from 7.15pm - and there's going to be a Blue Moon!

5:24pm

The Tornado duo win the award for making the most noise today. Here's a picture Corin Messer took.

Tornado. Picture Corin Messer. Bournemouth Air Festival 2012.

5:20pm

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The Miss Deameanour can make some serious noise for such a pretty plane. Here's another picture from Corin during what's been dubbed 'power hour'

Miss Demeanour. Bournemouth Air Festival 2012. Picture: Corin Messer,

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Speaking of The Blades...

 

The Blades. Bournemouth Air Festival 2012. Picture: Corin Messer.

4:36pm

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And here's a picture of one of the Breitling Wingwalkers!

Wingwalkers

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Here's a scene you don't see everyday! One of the Tigers Parachute Display Team about to land in the sea surrounded by bathers.

The Tigers

And here's Lance Corporal Chris Smith, who leads the team, talking about their new display earlier on:

 

3:48pm

And here's the King Air doing its thing

King Air. Bournemouth Air Festival. Picture: Corin Messer.

3:43pm

3:36pm

Another picture from Corin; this time of the Black Cats!

Black Cats. Bournemouth Air Festival 2012. Corin Messer.

3:32pm

3:28pm

We've been assured there ARE still car parking spaces available in town. Here's our story:

Spaces are still available in Bournemouth town centre car parks despite reports they are all full.

Council chiefs are advising people flocking to the town for the popular four-day event that there are spaces available in car parks including Terrace Mount, Cotlands Road and Berry Court.

However, due to the heavy volume of traffic and amount of people travelling to Bournemouth, they are asking visitors to consider using the park and ride schemes and public transport or park a little further out and walk into town.

You can find info on the park and ride scheme here

3:20pm

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And here is that Tucano roll...

Tucano

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He's not the only one taking photos, though:

Crowd

2:30pm

Corin Messer has just sent this picture from the seafront. A-maz-ing.

Red Arrows Bmth Day 2

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2:22pm

Lovely picture of the Red Arrows from a reader: 

Red Arrows at Bournemouth Air Festival

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2:03pm

If you're on your way into town you'll have issues with parking today as it appears there are NO spaces left in Bournemouth. This has just appeared on our traffic feed:

0 parking spaces available in all car parks in Bournemouth. Police advise that all the major car parks are full, mainly due to the Air Festival.

 

We'll keep you posted with more as we get it.

2:01pm

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1:53pm

TRAFFIC is being diverted after a collision at Derby Road in Bournemouth.
Police are in attendance at the scene of the collision with the A35 Christchurch Road closed while emergency services deal with the incident between a motorcycle and car.
The road is closed from St Swithun's roundabout and diversions are in place at the junction of Knyverton Road and Christchurch Road to prevent traffic approaching Derby Road.
A spokesperson for Dorset Police said the motorcyclist was conscious and breathing and being tended to by paramedics.
He was riding a black Honda motorcycle with the car involved, a red Citroen C4.
The incident is ongoing and traffic is said to be slow.

1:47pm

Here's footage from our chat with Breitling Wingwalker Freya Paterson. This girl has got some guts!

1:45pm

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Air Fest day 2

1:44pm

Some pictures from the beach...

Air Fest day 2

1:39pm

1:26pm

We took to the beachfront earlier to find out what you've been enjoying so far and what you are most looking forward to seeing at this year's Air Festival:

1:24pm

12:58pm

Thankfully no major issues with traffic with just one hour to go until today's flying starts, but you can keep up-to-date with what's happening on the roads here

12:47pm

12:46pm

Meet the Breitling wingwalkers; Danielle Hughes, left, and Freya Paterson. Did you know...? Freya is the newest addition to the team and is in her first season!

All our images from the second day of the 2012 Bournemouth Air Festival

12:01pm

Another fabulous image from our Flickr group

Memorial Flight

This one is by Phil Guest.

11:57am

11:54am

Even the dogs are getting in on the action. And yes, that's a dog with its own Twitter account. Don't ask us, we just read them out.
 

11:53am

11:48am

We've got some stunning pictures from last night's Night Air display in the gallery. Here's the SWIP Team...

All our images from the first day of the 2012 Bournemouth Air Festival

And if you want to see them all, the gallery is here.

11:43am

If you're wondering what the planes performing an unannounced display are it was The Blades, who have a Blue Peter presenter on board

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11:40am

If you are heading out to the festival this evening, keep an eye out for the blue moon...

11:38am

The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight will be much-welcomed today. It was forced to cancel yesterday thanks to bad weather at their base in the North East.

11:34am

There's over an hour of extra flying added to today's schedule. From 4pm - 5.10pm you can see the Breitling Wingwalkers, The Blades display team, Chinook, Miss Demeanour Hunter Jet and the Tornado duo.

Did you know...? The Blades fly Extra EA-300s. Walter Extra, a display pilot during the 1980s, decided to design and build the ultimate aerobatic aeroplane with optimum structure, weight and performance in mind and today’s aircraft was born.

 

 

11:26am

Our Air Festival photo competition is running again this year and we're ready to receive your entries! We have a Canon Powershot G12 camera for the winner of our adult category and a Samsung SH100 on offer for our junior winner. Want to get involved? Everything you need to know is here

11:17am

Other acts confirmed to play tonight include Rizzle Kicks, Honey Ryder, Newton Faulkner and Amelia Lily . So if you've been lucky enough to get a ticket for tonight's concert, you've still got plenty of time to perfect your Mama Do The Hump dance!

 

11:13am

Bournemouth singer Moya opens up tonight's Boscombe Corona stage with Wave 105. She was our band of the week a couple of months ago, you can give her a listen here

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It's getting busy down at Pier Approach! We snapped these people checking out the full-sized Chinook in the RAF Village this morning:

RAF village at Bournemouth Air Festival 2012

10:57am

Our friends at the Cumberland Hotel have sent us this view from their terrace this morning. 

Cumbeland

Nice work if you can get it, we say.

10:50am

For those of you who wanted to see the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight yesterday, the Air Festival team are pretty sure they will all be present and correct this afternoon - so if you're free at 3pm, make sure you're there!

10:24am

Yesterday we had a couple of comments regarding the environmental impact of an Air Festival:

11:40am Thu 30 Aug 12

muscliffman says

Noticed this comment "I'm working all 4 days on the Recycling/Green Goals stand. Can't wait to see some flying! "
Incredible! Gallons of fossil fuel causing unnecessary pollution in the name of entertainment and there is a 'Recycling/Green Goal' stand there!
Presumably it will be blocking the runways to prevent the flying?
Love the air-show before anyone starts (too late!), but just hate this 'green' hypocracy. But where there is a band-wagon there is a 'green'.......

 

12:29pm Thu 30 Aug 12

beachcomber1 says

have to agree the hypocrisy is staggering.

it does make me queasy when i see motor "sports", events like this and so on. but just the tip of the iceberg in terms of unnecessary fossil fuel usage.

Never ones to shy away from a debate, we thought we'd ask how you feel about that argument. On the one hand, there's no denying there's a lot of fossil fuels being burned over Bournemouth this weekend.

On the other side of the argument is the economic benefit to the town. And some would argue that compared with the millions of people who take cheap holiday flights every year, an air festival is a drop in the ocean. So what do you think? 

Is it fair to criticise the festival if you're a person who's ever flown abroad (or even driven anywhere for pleasure, if it comes to that)?

Or do you envisage our great grandchildren surveying rising sea levels and recoiling in astonishment that we once stood on the beach watching hundreds of tonnes of fuel go up in smoke?

9:38am

9:37am Fri 31 Aug 12

Wallisdown says

Wow what a stunning start to the day! wish I wasn't at work as it looks like being totally perfect conditions for an airshow, maybe a little bit of convective infill over the land as the day moves along but the coastal strip should stay almost clear!

Have a great down on the beach and clifftops everyone!

9:31am

And here's our video of last night's Night Air displays...

9:21am

And here's another one - we totally love this.

Bournemouth Air Festival 2012

9:16am

Speaking of great photos, here's one added to our Flickr group overnight.

Bournemouth Air Festival 2012

9:04am

Morning, and welcome to day two of the Air Festival blog.

Comments(5)

Wallisdown says...
9:37am Fri 31 Aug 12

Wow what a stunning start to the day! wish I wasn't at work as it looks like being totally perfect conditions for an airshow, maybe a little bit of convective infill over the land as the day moves along but the coastal strip should stay almost clear!

Have a great down on the beach and clifftops everyone!

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Benny Dorm says...
5:03pm Fri 31 Aug 12

I have to say I now find the airshow, probably only with the exception of the Red Arrows, incredibly boring.

To put some context on my comment, when it first started I was amazed by it and really enjoyed it.

Now I find the yawn factor is setting in- oh look, there's another wingwalker...... oh look, there's a helicopter....yaaawn


It's like a hit tv show that you love at first, but after season 8 you get a bit tired of it. Tired of the same old thing.

So for those reasons, I'm out!

Just my personal thoughts of course and I have no doubt it's as popular as ever with the crowds who flock to Bournemouth. Fair play, enjoy it.

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H2o-hara says...
7:14pm Fri 31 Aug 12

Is Freya Paterson the wing walker any relation to Mary Hopkins by any chance ?

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beachcomber1 says...
9:44pm Fri 31 Aug 12

i know what Benny Dorm means. there seems to be less variety this year. one year there was a b17 bomber i think, and a p51 mustang, the unforgettable eurofighter (remember the low pass it made with the wake of it's engines creating huge waves?) and the other loudest one, the sea vixen.

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Boscomite says...
10:19pm Fri 31 Aug 12

I supose it be too much to ask that the Echo let us know what time things are due to start on Saturday BEFORE the event.

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