The Patrouille de France in action just before sunset during a special event at Luxeuil Air Base.
The Patrouille Acrobatique de France, best known as the Patrouille de France, is the aerobatics demonstration team of the French Air and Space Forces, officially founded in 1953. A military demonstration team first flew in France as early as 1931, then under the name of Patrouille d'Étampes.
The beautiful and colorful show of the Patrouille de France is performed with a total of 8 Alpha Jet jet trainers.
I took this photo on October 7, 2017.
I am Jaap van den Berg and photography has become a great passion of mine since 2010. Since then I travel all over the world to take pictures of military aircrafts. But besides aircraft I also love to photograph other subjects like landscapes, architecture, flowers, animals, .. Read more…