France patrols

The Patrol of France is the official lifting patrol of the French Air Force. One often indicates it under the acronym of PAF (Lifting Patrol of France).

The program of the Patrol of France east (by tradition) renewed each year. Each program (determined by the leader of the patrol at the beginning of the season) is single in its kind of share the order of the figures and the use of the various formations. The emblematic figure of the patrol is the heart (in Y with 6 half-compartment of an arrow of smoke-producing of the two solos balances). The evolutions of the Patrol of France are done in formation, which comes down to saying that the 8 aircraft fly very close from/to each other (2 to 3 meters). These formations bear very special names which are often references or winks.

The planes of the Patrol of France present characteristic differences: painting blue-white-red, the smoke-producing pod which replaces the pod gun and a headlight in the nose were added for the needs for the Patrol.

The PAF in formation diamond.