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Looking forward to this, should be a good show.

Hurn airport will be an interesting place too, and a certain 'tin triangle' arrives on Thursday.

james lewis wrote:I'll defo be there !

any ideas what the best places to view are?

There's a viewing enclosure at the airport. It's £4 a car with a good view of the runway, but there is a high mesh fence in front of you, so steps are recommended.
Pretty much most of the aircraft will be operating from there.

At the beach the show is between the two piers. You can either view from the clifftops or go down on the beach to get closer to the action.
The good thing is you don't have a crowd line as such, only the sea, so there's plenty of room if you go right to the shore for photos.

Dave Homer wrote:Bournemouth Air Festival
Ignorant git here. What's the 'Tin Triangle@

Vulcan.

Vulcan due at Hurn on Thursday 19th @ approx 16:30 after a flypast at the seafront airshow.

(Credit Damien Burke)

Yeah he flew over the house en route.

Could see him in the distance practicing and could most definitely hear him too.

Went down to the beach on Friday to watch the show. It was dry with very low cloud and windy, but everyone bar the Vampire (not sure if wx or u/s) got up and performed.

Well done to all the crew and pilots who got out there and impressed us, even though they were limited to flat displays. It was much appreciated.

All flying postponed till 2.30pm at the earliest today due to the appalling weather conditions.

Drizzle, wind, low cloud and poor visibility. Is it winter already?

I feel for you, but sadly the weather and conditions made it impossible to fly today. I was at the airport around 2.30pm and the visibility was terrible.

As a local I'm gutted, but for someone who traveled many miles to see a display, well I can only imagine the disappointment.

Unfortunately we're at the mercy of the weather and it just wasn't clearing at all and currently still hasn't.

Ah weather!!! A coach load of us came down from the Forest of Dean today,to watch the show....Really gutted...

Wind has dropped right down which is good, but currently still overcast with low cloud, but not the pea soup we had on Saturday.

Really hope it does clear later and we can have some flying today.

Yep, not only for us, but with the jets, including the Vulcan being based at Hurn, it meant they couldn't get out to display elsewhere either.

Sod's Law that the sun has come out this afternoon too.

I assume nothing flew on Sunday either then? The weather looked just as rubbish on Sunday morning so we heading back home.

The Royals beach assault was good though, eh?!

They managed to get the wingwalkers up early doors, then nothing till about 4pm, when the Matadors, Pitts Duo and Cap 232 got up as there was a tiny weather window.

The Hunter, Typhoon and Vulcan were ready to follow, but once the Hunter got up the clag thickened again and the show was finally canx.