The 16th Bournemouth Air Festival starts today.
The three-day festival – the last to be managed and run by BCP Council – gets underway this afternoon on Bournemouth seafront.
Amanda Barrie, Festival Director, told Bournemouth One: “Please come along and enjoy yourselves across the three days.
“We’ve got a huge festival site which you can explore and make the most of and view all the activities.
“We also have sustainable transport offers in place.
“You can use our park and ride service which runs from Kings Park or there’s the bus provision or you can come by bike – we’ve got a Beryl Bike facility available.
“We’re really looking forward to welcoming everybody to the festival this year and we hope you enjoy what we have on offer.”
Bournemouth Air Festival attracts more than 400,000 visitors every year.
They come to enjoy the aerial acrobatics, ground entertainment and displays, fun fair and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) Village across the area’s award-winning beaches.
New entertainment at this year’s event will see an outdoor cinema located on the beach, a virtual-reality RNLI Lifeboat experience situated in the STEM village and two Swedish historic fighter jets – the Saab Viggen and Saab Draken, make their inaugural festival appearance.
Popular crowd favourites including the AeroSuperBatics WingWalkers and Rich Goodwin’s Jet Pitts Muscle Biplane will also be back in action this year.
Flight times for the highly anticipated RAF Typhoon have also been announced, with the jet set to take to the skies six times in a mix of day and dusk displays: Thursday 29 August at 4.30pm and 7.42pm; Friday 30 August at 4.10pm and 7.40pm; and Saturday 31 at 5.24pm and 7.35pm.