Dazzling Display Lined up for
WINDERMERE AIR FESTIVAL 2011
The full Air Display line up has been announced by the organisers of the Windermere Air Festival 2011. The dazzling display has been well thought out to give visitors and viewers a spectacular presentation of pure grace and raw energy, with pilots flipping, swooping and dancing their ways around the skies. The Air Festival which is due to take place on the Glebe at Bowness on Windermere on the 23rd & 24th July 2011 is now entering it's 11th year in action and promises to be the best year yet.
The Air Festival kicks off on Saturday with an action packed flying programme welcoming back the breathtaking acrobatics of the Breitling Wing Walkers as they perform a sequence of manoeuvres and handstands whilst strapped to the top wings of the team's beautiful Boeing Stearman biplanes. Visitor will also be awed by the RedHawks' air show act with a slow, gentle and graceful four-minute, three-dimensional aerial ballet performed to soothing music by a pair of 42 year-old, wooden, high-efficiency aeroplanes, designed by French musician, artist, ceramicist and sculptor Réné Fournier.
One of Saturday's highlights will be the RAF Falcons parachute display team, now in their 50th anniversary year the Falcons are sure to perform a unique, colourful and courageous aerial display as the parachute down onto the Air Base.
The Battle of Britain Memorial Flights will be gracing us with their presence on both days with special flights from the Spitfire, Hurricane and Lancaster Bomber.The Hurricane first entered service in 1937 and the Spitfire in 1938, which is one of the most famous aircraft ever built. The RV8tors will be flying their remarkably fast Vans RV-8's with powerful smoke systems, performing an exciting and memorable display. Combining close formation aerobatics with speeds up to 230 mph, the display makes large manoeuvres that fill the sky and leave big smoke trails.
The Air Festival is excited to be bringing to the show both the RAF Tucano and the RAF Hawk. Both spectacular in their own right the Hawk display team will demonstrate the professional excellence of the RAF while the Tucano display consists of 21 manoeuvres including an offset barrel roll, stall turn, oblique loop and reverse wingover.
On Sunday the Twister Duo will create a display of formation barrel loops, rolls and gravity defying zoom climbs. With these awe-inspiring manoeuvres your heart will be racing and you are sure to be gasping for breath.
The highlight of the weekend is set to be the renowned ambassadors of the RAF and everyone's favourite – The Red Arrows. Having missed out on the Red Arrows last year Lucy Bennett, a director of the air festival says 'it's such a coup for us to host the Red Arrows this year, they put on such a fantastic display and really add some excitement to the programme'. The highly acclaimed displays are filled full of twists, turns, drama and excitement, they are definitely not one to be missed.
Not only is there an action packed display programme , in addition the Air Base is full to bursting with family favourites including the military village, battle re-enactments and flying simulator, new kids have-a-go activities plus face painting, circus skills, music and great local food stalls.
The Red Arrows will be the headline of the Sunday flying display To book tickets and for Information on the Windermere Air Festival – including: where to park, eat and stay; – is available at: www.WindermereAirFestival.co.uk.
This year the event, which was previously known as The Windermere Air Show, has been renamed the Windermere Air Festival and is being held on 23 and 24 July on the Glebe in Bowness-on-Windermere.
