Day three of the Bournemouth Air Festival and there were no aircraft flying - the British weather being the culprit. With a cloud base of around 200/500 feet, plus a brisk wind and light rain, the Red Arrows were the first to cancel their 12.30 performance. Pilots stated that 1000 feet is the minimum cloud level for jets to fly safely. Only a solitary Lynx helicopter from the Black Cats managed to give a display before proceedings were called to a halt at 3.00pm.
Hopefully (and it does seem promising) the weather will improve somewhat for the last day tomorrow.
As a result I'm posting two images from the festival that I shot yesterday. The Breitling Wing Walkers are the worlds only formation wing walking team and performed last year (although under a different name). The top photograph shows an attempt for the girl wing walkers to touch hands, but the wind on the day was too strong to fly safely at close range and the endeavour failed. Apparently, the effort was successful the day before.
The bottom image shows one of the many poses taken up on each pass of the Breitling team (perhaps if I mention their name enough time they'll send me one of their watches. Yeah, right).
300mm f/2.8 AF-S VR Nikkor with x1.4 TC.
Top: 1/1600 second at f/4. +0.67 EV compensation. ISO 400.
Below: As above.
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