Fête aérienne Aérodrome de Cerny – La Ferté Alais 7 – 8 June 2014.
The La Ferté-Alais Air Show is an annual meeting of aviation enthusiasts in La Ferté-Alais, France.
It takes place at the Cerny airfield, which is owned and operated by the “Amicale Jean-Baptiste Salis” (AJ-BS).
The airfield is also the site of a museum which sports an impressive number of pre-World War I up to present aircraft.
This year commemorates the Normandy landings and the centenary of the First World War. For the occasion, fighter planes of the Great War conduct several flights over the air show.
During the show, dozens of vintage aircraft are assembled from Europe and the US for display and flight demonstrations. The French air force usually demonstrates some new air capacity (paratroops, etc.) as well as overflight by the Patrouille de France. Also, Airbus or other aircraft manufacturers will fly their latest commercial aircraft, such as the Airbus A400M, Dassault Rafale and ATR72 airliner. The French Navy is traditionally very strongly present at this event – Rafales, Super Etendards and Hawkeye are not an uncommon sight there.
A La Ferté-Alais hallmark is the numerous set pieces. One of the most prominent is the recreation of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, which really catapulted America into the war.
A trio of Yaks – 3, 9 and 11, remembered the Russian front, again accompanied by appropriate explosive effects. A stunning dogfight sequence involved an Se5a replica seeing off a modified Fokker Dr.I Triplane represent World War 1.
Pictures Rob Vogelaar Z.A.P.P.
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