Gosh! A £100 Prize. The Sky's The Limit for the Echo. Get your Airshow Programme now - only £5!

Take a photo of the travellers being evicted, guaranteed winner!!! Oh silly me, the police dont have the 'resources', but it will be interesting to see how many other parkers get towed away!

Programme £5 plus the £5 petrol to get into the town centre to get it from the limited outlets :-(

£100 notes for taking a picture thears easy money ...some people are never satisfied ...bunch of whingers

I can remember not so long ago many people using these pages moaning and whinging that there was never anything on in Bournemouth. Yes, I was one of those people, I admit.

Now we have probably one of the greatest Air Festivals since the days of the Air Pageant at Hurn (last one 1991, I think). And a number of you are still moaning and whinging. If it is not about the programme costs, no charges but we have to buy a programme, or traffic chaos.

Yes there is no charge for the Festival, but there is if you want to buy it (IF) of £5. It costs a lot of money to produce. No one from the local area needs to drive into town. Grab a bus to town, or drive to one of the 3 Park and Ride locations.

For once give More Bus, Bournemouth Council, and all who have helped stage what is going to be a great show, the credit due, and get out and enjoy yourselves.

Do not forget to support your local Sea Cadets, TS Phoebe. They will be on the promenade for the kids.

Enjoy the Festival.

Oh yes, nearly forgot. Do not forget your cameras and get those fantastic fun day shots into the Daily Echo (the email is free). You could win £100, and maybe next year get a taxi both ways.

Good luck with your Happy Snaps.

Christopher wrote:
I can remember not so long ago many people using these pages moaning and whinging that there was never anything on in Bournemouth. Yes, I was one of those people, I admit. Now we have probably one of the greatest Air Festivals since the days of the Air Pageant at Hurn (last one 1991, I think). And a number of you are still moaning and whinging. If it is not about the programme costs, no charges but we have to buy a programme, or traffic chaos. Yes there is no charge for the Festival, but there is if you want to buy it (IF) of £5. It costs a lot of money to produce. No one from the local area needs to drive into town. Grab a bus to town, or drive to one of the 3 Park and Ride locations. For once give More Bus, Bournemouth Council, and all who have helped stage what is going to be a great show, the credit due, and get out and enjoy yourselves. Do not forget to support your local Sea Cadets, TS Phoebe. They will be on the promenade for the kids. Enjoy the Festival.

It amazes me how people like yourself can foresee the future and state that it will be a great day out and how excellent the whole event will be for the town and the population. I live locally and i wont benefit from this except to find the roads gridlocked and pollution all around me from cars stuck in traffic jams. Am i not allowed to complain about this or do we no longer live in a democratic society with free speech. It naffs me off when peole like yourself come along and try and tell us what we should and shouldnt do. Bournemouth council are paying for this using mine and everyone elses council taxes and more buses are sponsering this event because the council is so corrupt that they will probably get a few more bus lanes and increas there fares or cancel some more routes that will then be subsidised by the tax payer. I cant wait to see how many peole are whinging and moaning on these pages on monday about the next few days and i will just sit back and say i told you so. Watch this space.

this could be the biggest free airshow in Europe as Southend has held this for a number of years.

I wish people would either go and see theshowand enjoy and not moan about the price of parking,the price of brochures the price of fuel...If you dont want to go noone is making you

My dear PoolemanofScotland, no one, including myself has said you cannot air your opinions. I would not dream of it. However, I could say the same the way you have treated my opinions.

I do not claim to know exactly what will happen, but I do listen, read and watch to see what is happening. It is only when the infrastructure that is put in place is disregarded by many does it become mayhem. Plans never work in full, but it does help if people are willing to give it a go.

I pesonally, regardless of what happens will enjoy the Air Festival, and if I make it down there the Dorset Steam Rally. I will use the infrastructure set up by the organisers and take it in my stride.

Well as you do not live in Scotland (hiding) and live local we might see you at the festival. It will benefit the town, but thankfully not you individually.

Have a great weekend.

PoolemaninScotland, I forgot to add, what has your comments got to do with a Photograph competition. Please do not blame me, I responded to those previous to my comment.

See you at the Festival.

philly wrote:
Programme £5 plus the £5 petrol to get into the town centre to get it from the limited outlets :-(

You could always save the £5 petrol and pay £10 to use the Park and Ride!
Perhaps the erudite Christopher could advise which is the better alternative.

The better alternative for you John is to take the public transport to Bournemouth. That should save you a large sum. Philly I would presume would do the same.

£10 per car. How many in the car, multiplied by alternative transport.

Costs have to be paid to the owners of the car parks I presume.

Thank you for the compliment. Great knowledge or scholarship. No more than anyone else. Just read what is available, and using the best options.

It would seem that the only thing that is free about the Air Festival is the air we breathe, and even that will be at the cost of it being grossly polluted by traffic fumes.
And, Christopher, I shall take your advice and come to Bournemouth by public transport, using my so-called FREE BUS PASS.Enjoy your Weekend.

But not ours John, not ours. You to enjoy the weekend of festivals.

LETS HOPE THE CLOUDS CLEAR UP OR THE DAY WILL BE RUINED FOR MANY, HERE'S TO A GREAT DAY FOR ALL AND MANY MORE LIKE THEM.

http://www.wundergro
und.com/global/stati
ons/03862.html

According to this one taken at the Airport, Scattered Clouds on Thursday and Friday, Clear skies on Saturday, Possible Clouds and Rain on Sunday.

I can remember not so long ago many people using these pages moaning and whinging that there was never anything on in Bournemouth. Yes, I was one of those people, I admit.

Now we have probably one of the greatest Air Festivals since the days of the Air Pageant at Hurn (last one 1991, I think). And a number of you are still moaning and whinging. If it is not about the programme costs, no charges but we have to buy a programme, or traffic chaos.

Yes there is no charge for the Festival, but there is if you want to buy it (IF) of £5. It costs a lot of money to produce. No one from the local area needs to drive into town. Grab a bus to town, or drive to one of the 3 Park and Ride locations.

For once give More Bus, Bournemouth Council, and all who have helped stage what is going to be a great show, the credit due, and get out and enjoy yourselves.

Do not forget to support your local Sea Cadets, TS Phoebe. They will be on the promenade for the kids.

Enjoy the Festival.

Hi LTRFTW
I can understand why we'd want to whinge. I can completely understand the need for a whinge.
You're quite right that this looks like being a fantastic event and well done to the organisers. However, residents shouldn't be told to put up (enjoy yourselves) or shut up (stop whingeing). You congratulate Bournemouth Borough Council and more bus. Regearding BBC well done us for paying taxes to allow this to happen- somebody made a great event, they used our money. Similarly more bus (are they still the trendy branch of wilts and dorset)- we're the passengers, the customers. The money comes from us. Love the airshow, hate the bus service.

However, the thing which really doesn't sit well with me is the echo's attitude. The thing that people really want is a timetable of events - residents and visitors want to know what's on and when. After buying the echo today I realised you don't want to tell us in the paper because you've got a £5 programme to sell. Shame (literally) on you. I might even have given in to this scalping but it's sold nowhere. Today in Boscombe I tried five places and nothing - in the words of the gentleman in WH Smith 'not a chance'.
So frankly I'll be sending in a photo of me missing a plane.
Could and should do better

oli wrote:

I can remember not so long ago many people using these pages moaning and whinging that there was never anything on in Bournemouth. Yes, I was one of those people, I admit.

Now we have probably one of the greatest Air Festivals since the days of the Air Pageant at Hurn (last one 1991, I think). And a number of you are still moaning and whinging. If it is not about the programme costs, no charges but we have to buy a programme, or traffic chaos.

Yes there is no charge for the Festival, but there is if you want to buy it (IF) of £5. It costs a lot of money to produce. No one from the local area needs to drive into town. Grab a bus to town, or drive to one of the 3 Park and Ride locations.

For once give More Bus, Bournemouth Council, and all who have helped stage what is going to be a great show, the credit due, and get out and enjoy yourselves.

Do not forget to support your local Sea Cadets, TS Phoebe. They will be on the promenade for the kids.

Enjoy the Festival.

Hi LTRFTW
I can understand why we'd want to whinge. I can completely understand the need for a whinge.
You're quite right that this looks like being a fantastic event and well done to the organisers. However, residents shouldn't be told to put up (enjoy yourselves) or shut up (stop whingeing). You congratulate Bournemouth Borough Council and more bus. Regearding BBC well done us for paying taxes to allow this to happen- somebody made a great event, they used our money. Similarly more bus (are they still the trendy branch of wilts and dorset)- we're the passengers, the customers. The money comes from us. Love the airshow, hate the bus service.

However, the thing which really doesn't sit well with me is the echo's attitude. The thing that people really want is a timetable of events - residents and visitors want to know what's on and when. After buying the echo today I realised you don't want to tell us in the paper because you've got a £5 programme to sell. Shame (literally) on you. I might even have given in to this scalping but it's sold nowhere. Today in Boscombe I tried five places and nothing - in the words of the gentleman in WH Smith 'not a chance'.
So frankly I'll be sending in a photo of me missing a plane.
Could and should do better

http://www.bournemou
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ea/beach/_subArea/77
4929/_articleId/9764
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That'll be one heck of a git to copy and paste..but might just give you a clue as to what's on and when.

2Much, Newforest wrote:http://www.bournemou

th.co.uk/xxl/_lang/e

n/_site/pleasure/_ar

ea/beach/_subArea/77

4929/_articleId/9764

51/index.html

That'll be one heck of a git to copy and paste..but might just give you a clue as to what's on and when.

Or tinied:
http://tinyurl.com/5
o6mp4

To make a long URL tiny, the lines will paste into a word processing programme in one go instead of the little bits it does into a web browser. Copy that into:
http://tinyurl.com/
and ask for a conversion to a 'tiny URL'. Much quicker than pasting all those little bits.

So its...

http://tinyurl.com/5
o6mp4


Very clever.

Hi Oli. Not wishing to continue with a debate on who is right and who is not. But I would imagine that the reason that there is no actual time table will in part be down to the Display Teams themselves, and of course the weather. This will undoubtedly determine when and if the displays take place.

Commonsense really.

http://www.bbc.co.uk
/dorset/content/arti
cles/2008/03/31/bour
nemouth_air_festival
_feature.shtml

gives some ideas of times.
I dont think it would be too much to ask the echo to have supplied this information.

You can get the full venue details on
http://www.militarya
irshows.co.uk/ven19.
htm

Thanks 2much, Charlie, and Jonny for the information and links - good stuff.

Christopher, you're right - these sorts of things can't be exact and there's always the chance of error. Bearing that in mind this is a general timetable I was lucky to receive today for tomorrows show (I whinged too much):

Beginning
1.30 RAF Falcons in C130
1.45 Tutor
1.55 Black Cats in Lynx
2.10 Memorial flight - Lancaster, Spitfire, Hurricane
2.25 Tucano
2.35 Blue Eagles
2.50 Gnaty
3.00 Red Arrows
3.35 Yakovlevs
3.45 Cobham formation
3.55 Sea vixen
4.05 King Air
4.15 Hawk
4.25 Wingwalk
4.40 Typhoon

As Christopher says it's all subject to change but today's (Thursday) seemed pretty accurate. I didn't see much as was working but did see the Lancaster dangling out of an office window. Absolutely wonderful - I think the sound and sight is stuck in my mind forever.
Also don't forget there's lots going on after the display on the promenade, in hte gardens (without wanting to bash the echo too much, these really could have been with being promoted more)
have a great weekend and if the schedule turns out to be accurate I'll try to get Saturday and Sunday.
Thanks again

and yes 2much - it was a git. Lots of Ctrl + c then v then oh Ctrl + got that wrong then Ctrl + start again

In additions to Oli timetable above, here is the display list for the weekend.

Flying Program for Friday, Saturday, Sunday - subject to change!

Friday 29th August
1:30pm-2:30pm
RAF Falcons Parachute Team
Black Cats
BBMF
Grob Tutor
Tucano T1

2:30pm-3:30pm
Blue Eagles
Folland Gnat
Red Arrows + Folland Gnat
Red Arrows

3:30pm-4:30pm
Falcon 20 (FRA)
Yakolevs
Sea vixen
King Air
Hawk T1
Team Guinot
Typhoon

Saturday 30th August
12:00pm-1:00pm
Red Arrows + Folland Gnat
Red Arrows
Yakolevs

1:00pm-2:00pm
Navy lynx
DC6
Sea Vixen
BE200 King Air
Blue Eagles
Sea Hawk

2:00pm-3:00pm
BBMF
The Blades
Folland Gnat
Grob Tutor
Tucano T1

3:00pm-4:00pm
Hawk T1
Team Guinot
Catalina
RAF Falcons Parachute Team

Sunday 31st August
1:00pm-2:00pm
Yakolevs
Navy Lynx
Folland Gnat
BE200 King Air
Catalina
Blue Eagles

2:00pm-3:00pm
Sea hawk
Avro Lancaster
DC6
Grob Tutor
Tucano T1
Sea Vixen

3:00pm-4:00pm
Red Arrows + Sea Vixen (Brian Grants bowout display)
Red Arrows
Team Guinot
The Blades

4:00pm-4:30pm
Hawk T1
Eurofighter Typhoon
RAF Falcons Parachute Team

Air displays start times::

Friday - 1.30pm
Saturday - 12 noon
Sunday - 12.40pm


Sadly as reported in another story, the Vulcan Bomber will not be with us this weekend due to maintenance problems. A good reason for another annual Air Festival next year.

Stop complaining all you moaners! I took a wonderful photo of the Catalina on Saturday and I have entered it into the competition.

I can't believe the people complaining about the time table!! Just go down there and enjoy it!! It is pretty much non stop flying action. I for one would not have had enough time to have gazed at a program as to what was coming next. The best part was wondering what was coming next. Our eyes were to the sky for 4 hours non stop. I didn't even get chance to pee!! I think it is a shame that there are some people who pick out the negative. I would much rather go down to Bournemouth, spend the day on the beach and watch this amazing display than spend loads of money at a theme park. No one had to spend money if they didn't want to. All we spent yesterday was for ice cream. We took a packed lunch, arrived early, got a good spot on the beach and paid for nothing else.