Bournemouth Air Festival: Day 3...

Day three and it is perfect flying weather. Only the wispiest of cloud in the sky, and what materialised evaporated in the heat of a late August afternoon. It was the last performance of the Red Arrows at this year's festival, and although I still used a super-telephoto lens to pick out tight groups of aircraft, I also used a telephoto zoom to create a different feel to some of the images - lens ghosting and all.

The Royal Marines also performed for the record crowd of 404,000, showing just how they deal with a terrorist threat. I hope to add more images from their display in a summary post about the festival, once it is all over.







Top three: The Red Arrows
Fourth image: The Royal Marines on the beach
The Tigers Parachute Display Team
Bottom. Eurofighter Typhoon


The Red Arrows - 70-200mm f/2.8 Apo Sigma lens
All other images: 300mm f/2.8 AF-S VR Nikkor with TC-14EII converter




© 2013

Bournemouth Air Festival 2013: Day 1...

Unlike last year, and certainly the year before - when the opening day of the Air Festival was washed out entirely by rain - this year's weather forecast looks very promising.

Without going into much detail, here is a selection of images from day one.








Top: Avro Lancaster
Second Row: The Battle of Britain fly-past, featuring the Avro Lancaster, Hawker Hurricane and Supermarine Spitfire.

Third Row: (left) Patrouille Reva (French display team - with a certain je ne sais quoi)
                (right) Gerald Cooper, in his Xtreme Air XA 41

Row 4: The Tigers Parachute Display Team (well, two of 'em)

Bottom two: The Red Arrows




All images - 300mm f/2.8 AF-S VR Nikkor with TC-14EII converter



© 2013