Sunday, August 21, 2011

Bournemouth Air Festival

After a little while of talking about it/planning with my CDG coursemates, we decided to go to the Bournemouth Air Festival yesterday. Most of us met up at Southampton train station, ready for our little adventure which was the first day trip I've had with my coursemates, unless you count the pub of course. One thing about CDG is if you can avoid the mind numbing boredom five days a week in the right ways, you can get some damn good friends out of it like I did. So anyway with beer in hand we watched the air display and first up were the Red Arrows, who of course everyone is familiar with (I'd imagine), and they put on a great show as expected. I can't really remember the rest of the aircraft names except the Blades but regardless of that I really enjoyed myself and despite the rain that greeted us in Bournemouth at first, it did brighten up to the other end of the scale resulting in sunburn but at least the weather allowed me to take as many photos as I wanted. I love the streams of smoke that billowed out of the airborne structures as they hurtled past performing some rather complex maneuvers, the shapes they created were great! In other photos though it deceivingly appears as if they're motionless, as if just placed onto the blue background. In any case, considering I'm not particularly interested in man made transportation I had a lot of fun and same goes for my recent trip to Beaulieu! However, there was an awfully somber tone at the end of the day as we were informed that after the show one of the Red Arrows crashed and sadly lost his life upon attempting to steer clear of residential areas. Rest in Peace Jon Egging!



 











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