The fourth and last day of the Bournemouth Air Festival 2010 and again it was marred by the weather. Apart from the unexpected arrival of the Breitling (where's my watch?) Wingwalkers opening the show there was precious little flying to follow. Although conditions were an improvement on yesterday - why, even the sun made a brief appearance for a few minutes - low cloud and several bouts of rain presented safety issues for flying jets. As a result there was no display by the Avro Vulcan or the Eurofighter Typhoon and the Red Arrows cancelled for the second day running.
There were several late displays before the weather closed in at 4.15pm - at which time an end was called to proceedings - including the Pitts Duo, one of which I include here, mainly because of its amusing registration.
It must be stressed that the organisers, pilots and ground crews did their level best to put on a show, but they were just defeated by the English weather.
Roll on next year.
300mm f/2.8 AF-S VR Nikkor with x1.4 TC.
1/1000 second at f/5.6. +0.67 EV compensation. ISO 400
© 2010
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