If you like aeroplanes, beach life, swimming in the sea, beach huts and sunshine …and people, you might be lucky and enjoy the perfect summer day. The Bournemouth Air Festival usually occurs after the bank holiday weekend and just before the children go back to school for the autumn term, which of course means the weather is guaranteed to suddenly improve. As the festival is held over four days, the chances of sunshine and planes actually taking off are greatly improved. It rained all of August and true to form Thursday 31st August started with torrential downpours.
In the afternoon it ‘brightened up’. Consultation of programme updates indicated nothing was flying all afternoon except the Red Arrows with a low level display at 5.30pm, so there was a mass migration to the cliff top.
The excitement was short lived as they soon flew away.
But the weather improved on Friday…
Though not my photography.
The weekend got sunnier, hotter and busier.
Times and Tides of a Beachwriter 
Love, Love, LOVE the Bournemouth Air Festival! It’s where I last saw the Vulcan bomber fly.
I used to live near Hurn airport, which is where they all take off from, so we had our own private air displays as well!
I’m so glad the weather perked up.
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I loved the Vulcan bomber, it once flew over me when I was in the sea!
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AWESOME!
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I miss the sea and the sand on a sunny day with the planes overhead although we do get a daily display from our airport where the RTA have a base…
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It’s always fun to live near an airport. More planes fly over my house than when we lived by Heathrow, where we were parallel to the runway.
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No Air shows here but there have been a lot of small aircraft making up for lost days and flying out of Haverfordwest. One of the triangular journeys which trainees for the private pilot licence do is Haverfordwest / Shobden (on the Welsh – English border) and Swansea and that takes them over my house. The wind turbines on the hill are one of the course waypoints!
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Your own show, I always think small planes flying around on a sunny day is a lovely summery thing.
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