Bastille Day 2019

[tommc]

Weather was dull, overcast, with very low cloud. It was my first time at this event, and I came back with mixed feelings. Fantastic numbers, not overly happy with pictures, though the weather did not help. The flypast ones were taken from the Nanterre district.

01.

French Army Tigre at Paris - Issy Heliport



02.

Patrouille de France opened the flypast with a bit of welcome colour



03.

Specially marked AdlA E-3F



04.

Mixed formation of 2 x AdlA Mirage 2000s, plus RAF Typhoon and Spanish EF2000



05.

French C-135R tanker



06.

New French A.330 MRTT with Mirage 2000s and Rafales



07.

A.330 041 with escorting fighters



08.

Another mixed formation, Alphajets and Rafales


09.

Fokker F100 flying test bed


10.

French Navy Rafales, nicely painted


11.

Another mixed formation, Alphajets and new PC-21s


12.

French Navy Falcon


13.

French A.400M and Portuguese C.295


14.

French C-130J-30 and German A.400M


15.

French Army Cougar at Issy heliport


16.

French Army NH90 at Issy heliport


17.

Gabrielle

[James Cutting]

Nice shots Tom! Captured the event well, weather really wasn't on your side.

Nice to see such a variety of shots from a flypast, some nice captures in there

[POL]

French Army Cougars certainly aren't a common sight, very nice!

[Supra]

Excellent location & great shots in flat light. Can't fault the content either! Just as an aside, my first thought for shot 16 was 'why is that NH-90 tethered?'

[effects]

Lovely Fokker.

[paddyboy]

Hi Tom

Got to disagree with you here

Considering the light and conditions, you have got some crackers there

Well done you

Thanks for posting

Paddyboy

[venom]

what a flypast compared with ours for the queens birthday

[tommc]

Hi Tom

Got to disagree with you here

Considering the light and conditions, you have got some crackers there

Well done you

Thanks for posting

Paddyboy

Thanks, but the location was not quite as I was hoping. But, then again, I haven't seen any images taken this year from the starboard side of the flypast, so don't have anything to compare with.