essential The Air Force acrobatic patrol will be the big absent from the air meeting on May 10 at Muret-Lherm aerodrome. Following the recent flight collision of two of his Alphajet, the training has lagged behind training.
The eight alphajet of the Patrol of France (PAF) will not evolve in the Muretain sky, on May 10, during the Airexpo air meeting. Contacted, the air force and space indicated that the collision in flight of two of its aircraft, on March 25 near Saint-Dizier (Haute-Marne), had the consequence of delaying the training of the pilots by one month.
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The Patrol of France therefore canceled its participation in all the events in May. The acrobatic training resumed the flights to eight, at the end of April. She will launch the summer season on Sunday 1is Next June in Hyères, on the occasion of the air meeting organized for the centenary of the naval aeronautics base.
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The two pilots who were in charge of the Alphajet during the Saint-Dizier accident, as well as the third who was a passenger, will not be a workforce. If their state of health is not considered worrying, they are not yet able to resume the air and will be replaced.
- On the apparatus side, the Patrol of France had, before the collision, a fleet of eleven alphajet. Despite the two copies destroyed last March, the training therefore still has enough devices to perform its flight demonstrations. The air force and space also has around thirty alphajet on the 120 air base of Cazaux (Gironde). Initially used for the training of hunting pilots, these training planes are gradually withdrawn from the service for the benefit of Pilatus PC-21. They could therefore, if necessary, reinforce the fleet of the PAF.
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If the French acrobatic patrol will not color the sky of the 2025 edition of Airexpo with its tricolor smoke, several other devices will nevertheless ensure the spectacle in the air. The meeting organized by students from ENAC and ISAE-SUPAERO will offer, among other things, the surprising American soil attack aircraft OV-10 Bronco from North American or the Biplace Integral R aerobatic of Toulouse ARAO.
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The water bomber Grumman Tracker Firecat, originally built for the US Navy, will also be maneuver; Like a CRI-Cri, the smallest twin-turn in the world; an ATR 72-600 regional transport aircraft; And a marine version of Dassault Aviation Falcon 50. Kick -off of festivities, this Saturday, May 10 from 10 a.m. Flight demonstrations will start at 12:45 p.m. tickets are on sale on the event website.
