Festival of Flight event is scheduled for resort

Festival of Flight event is scheduled for resort

26 July 2017

ALL roads lead to Newcastle next weekend for the annual Festival of Flight spectacular.

The Red Arrows will once again be headlining the August 5 showpiece which features a thrilling line-up of other aircraft and also on duty at next Saturday’s show will be members of Ballynahinch Air Cadets.

They joined recently with Newry, Mourne and Down Council chairwoman Roisin Mulgrew to help launch this year’s event which is being organised by the local authority and sponsored by Rockwell Collins.

The annual festival regularly attracts audiences of around 100,000 to Newcastle and the surrounding area to enjoy an awe-inspiring air show over the natural amphitheatre of Dundrum Bay, with a packed programme of free family entertainment at ground level. 

During next weekend’s event, there will be an opportunity to climb into the Air Cadets’ Jet Provost cockpit to get a ground-level feel for what it might be like to take the controls of a real aircraft.