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BOURNEMOUTH AIR FESTIVAL, NOT JUST ABOUT AIR When the hundreds of thousands of visitors descend on Bournemouth for this year’s Air Festival, chances are they will be too busy having fun to appreciate what goes on behind the scenes. But they will be in the presence of the biggest Royal Navy contingent at any event in the UK this year. As well as having the RFA Larg’s Bay moored off the seafront, there will be plenty going on ashore. Commander Tom Herman, deputy naval regional commander for Wales and the West of England, said: “We see it as an opportunity to allow the people who own the Royal Navy to find out more about what it does. “In years gone by – and to a lesser degree today – we ran Navy days, but we can’t move the dockyard ports where they take place. “We’ve found moving the events to places where people are allows us to show the Navy off and they can meet the servicemen and women and find out why we need the Navy. “Very few people know anything about maritime trade and maritime security and what the Navy does. “We get a double hit out of this, because while people are finding out about us we’re also training.” Read full article on Bournemouth Echo website. Visit Bournemouth Air Festival website. - - -