A beautifully colored Dassault/Dornier Alpha Jet of the Patrouille Acrobatique de France (PAF), also known as Patrouille de France.
I took this photo on October 7, 2017 at Luxeuil Air Base in France.
The Patrouille de France is the aerobatics demonstration team of the French Air Force, founded in 1931. The team gives many flight demonstrations every year in France and far beyond.
Since 1981, the Patrouille is flying the Dassault/Dornier Alpha Jet.
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…