Tag: Air Festival

Bournemouth Air Festival 2023 – What’s On Day Four – Sunday

It’s the last day of the 2023 Bournemouth Air Festival but there’s still time to get yourself down to the seafront to watch an incredible line up of entertainment.  Watch it live! Flying is due to start today at 1.30pm however please note that aircraft are subject to availability and weather conditions and flying times may Read more…

Bournemouth Air Festival 2023 – What’s On Day Three – Saturday

It’s day three of the 2023 Bournemouth Air Festival and today is set to be the busiest so make sure you get down there earlier to secure your favourite viewing spot as once again there is an incredible line up of entertainment! Can’t make it down? Then stream it live via https://bournemouthair.co.uk/live-stream/ ! Flying is Read more…

Inspiring the Next Generation

Primary school children who won a competition to inspire future engineers will get to meet the Red Arrows at this year’s Bournemouth Air Festival. Six winners from Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole primary schools won the competition to design a paper aeroplane. They will now meet the world class RAF pilots at this year’s free four-day Read more…

Bournemouth Air Festival Programme – Find Out What’s On this Year

The official 2023 Air Festival souvenir programme is out now and features full details on the aircraft displaying, on the ground information, and of course the important timetable of events! Each programme comes with an unique code which allows you access to the online timetable which will be updated throughout the festival. The programme is Read more…

Turbo Stunt Plane in First for Festival

The world’s first turbo jet-powered Pitts Special muscle bi-plane will be thundering through the skies at Bournemouth Air Festival this year. Former RAF Tornado pilot Richard Goodwin will be displaying his unique G-JPIT bi-plane, which he has reengineered to include two massive ATM Lynx Jet engines. The plane can perform aerobatic manoeuvres such as double-hammerheads and the Read more…

Fans asked to travel green ahead of four days of free Air Festival fun

Visitors to this year’s Bournemouth Air Festival are urged to do their bit to reduce the carbon footprint and help make this year’s event more eco-friendly than ever before. Bournemouth’s Air Festival takes place between 1 – 4 September 2022 and will feature spectacular displays from the Red Arrows, RAF Typhoon, Battle of Britain Memorial Read more…

Red Arrows Timings Released – Bournemouth Air Festival 2022

Timings for the nation’s favourite, the Red Arrows, have been announced ahead of this year’s Bournemouth Air Festival. The Red Arrows will have a special colourful seven-aircraft formation celebrating the Platinum Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II at this year’s festival. The team behind the Reds, who perform some incredible feats of aerial acrobatics, Read more…

Red Arrows, Typhoon and BBMF to fly on all four days of the 2022 Bournemouth Air Festival

Crowd-pleasing Red Arrows will be making a roaring return to Britain’s biggest free air festival this year. The award-winning Bournemouth Air Festival will welcome back the RAF Typhoon from the military, this time for four days. The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Spitfire, Hurricane and Lancaster will also take to the skies for four performances Read more…

Bournemouth Air Festival 2021 – What’s On Day Four – Sunday

It’s the final day of the 2021 Bournemouth Air Festival but don’t worry, there’s still a great line up to enjoy! Firstly as most of you are probably aware a Wingwalker Aircraft crashed yesterday near the Sandbanks Chain Ferry after performing at the festival. Both of the people onboard, the pilot and the wing-walker, were Read more…

Bournemouth Air Festival 2021 – What’s On Day Three – Saturday

Latest update from air festival organisers: 17.00 – Flying has been suspended after Wingwalkers plane crashes into sea near Sandbanks Ferry at Bournemouth Air Festival. 17.10 Flying has been suspended for this evening. It is our intention to have a display programme reinstated for tomorrow. The festival site remains open and all ground-based activities continue Read more…

Bournemouth Air Festival 2021 – What’s On Day Two – Friday

It’s day two and today sees more aircraft displays, including the impressive RAF Chinook, plus a fireworks display. Once again the festival site opens at 10.00am and there is 1.5 miles of trading stands and funfair attractions along the seafront between the Bournemouth and Boscombe piers. Here you will also find the Army Village and Read more…

Bournemouth Air Festival – officially landed for 2021!

Regarded as the greatest land, air and sea event in the UK, it’s with much anticipation and excitement that the UK’s leading resort will be welcoming in excess of a million people*, aviation enthusiasts, friends and family, to the free Bournemouth Air Festival starts today and finishes Sunday. Staged across 1.5miles of beach and clifftop Read more…