The Patrouille de France 2017!
The Patrouille Acrobatique de France, best known as 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 back in 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 during a special event at Luxeuil Air Base in France.
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…