Rafale Aerobatics Around the Patrouille de France

This video shows the Patrouille de France, the French Air Force display team, performing some (basic) aerobatic manoeuvres with a couple of Rafale multirole fighter jets.

Even if display teams fly in formation with aircraft of a different type to celebrate specific events or air-to-air photo shootings (the large final formation including Mirage 2000s is a clear example of such episodes), they usually don’t fly the whole or part of their display (not even a loop, as shown in the video) with other aircraft not belonging to the team.

This is because the peculiarities of the formation aerobatics are such that a long and focused training is required to be able to fly aerobatic maneuvers so close to other planes, a kind of flying not normally conducted by pilots belonging to operative combat units.

Source: The Aviationist

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