Two aircraft of the Patrouille Acrobatique de France (PAF) in action during the La Ferté-Alais Airshow.
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 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 August 28, 2021.
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…