Airshow BA106 Merignac 14/5/17

[medoc]

form for spotterday at Bordeaux Merignac

http://fosa.fr/meetingdelair/espace-spo ... rvspotter/

christophe
http://www.merignacpiste23.fr/

[Rads]

Hi Christophe,

Do you know if the CAEA museum will be open please?

Dave

[medoc]

Hi Christophe,

Do you know if the CAEA museum will be open please?

Dave

hello Dave

not open but a lot of planes of CAEA will be showed during the airshow ( i read this info on newspapper)

see info here in english https://www.caea.info/index.php?lang=fr

christohe
http://www.merignacpiste23.fr/

[MJA]

Is there anything known about what kind of aircraft will fly at the airshow?

Marcel.

[medoc]

Is there anything known about what kind of aircraft will fly at the airshow?

Marcel.

i don't know the whole programm, i read that there will be only 2 or 3 hours of flying progamm ?.

first participants are German Tornado and Spanish Aspa

christophe
http://www.merignacpiste23.fr/

[MJA]

Is there anything known about what kind of aircraft will fly at the airshow?

Marcel.

i don't know the whole programm, i read that there will be only 2 or 3 hours of flying progamm ?.

first participants are German Tornado and Spanish Aspa

christophe
http://www.merignacpiste23.fr/

Thanks!

German Tornado static or flying?

Marcel.

[medoc]

Is there anything known about what kind of aircraft will fly at the airshow?

Marcel.

i don't know the whole programm, i read that there will be only 2 or 3 hours of flying progamm ?.

first participants are German Tornado and Spanish Aspa

christophe
http://www.merignacpiste23.fr/

Thanks!

German Tornado static or flying?

Marcel.

hello
static display as usual...

christophe
www.merignacpiste23.fr

[Rads]

Thanks Christophe

Dave

[Tatan63]

Hello,
participant is online:

static http://fosa.fr/meetingdelair/meeting-de ... ue-avions/

Dynamic http://fosa.fr/meetingdelair/meeting-de ... -aeronefs/

[CBR]

In the static line-up is an A-10. They are not based in Europe anymore. From where is it coming?

[57HEAVY]

they are somewhere in turkey fighting isis

[Nielis]

The F-5 looks interesting aswell, should it be an example from Morocco.

[Canberra TT.18]

Picture of M346 is one from Israël, but most probably this one is from Singapore from nearby Cazaux.
So F-5 could come eg. from Spain. also says F-5 Freedom Fighter and not Tiger II. Well I think every F-5 is interseting. ☺
Looks like small dynamic show as earlier mentioned.

[Fogg]

I don't see an F-5 on the list anymore.

How is photography here, please, does anyone know? Where are the flightline and the public?

[paul-760]

I visited the Meeting de l'air at Bordeaux BA106

The flightline was intregrated in the public area which enabled good photography on the ground.

Fixed-wing demos were only held 2 hours in a row in order not to disturb the commercial flying activities of the civil airport. These demos were:

* Swiss F18 solo (J-5016 and J-5020).
* Tactical display team from Nancy, flying two Mirage 2000D together (3-XJ and 3-XC) in Ramex Delta style. These were normal green ones. The spare was 3-XN which has received en breige/brown desert camo and should remember of the Jaguar (according to a Mirage pilot).
* Belgian air force F16 solo. Same scheme as last year. Spare was FA-134.
* Rafale solo. 4-GL has received a new blue scheme ( actualy red white blue but blue dominates). Not bad from the top but personally I think the tail is  a bit civil aviation style. The grey 4-GA was the spare.
* Patrouille de France with USA scheme, showing several small stars in the tails. As ever a great performance and it is remarkable how the French audience reacts to the smoke in their national colors etc.

So far so good but the display line was the main runway whilst the air base and the public area and even the spotters area were situated mainly next to the crossing secondary runway. The distance to the flying displays was to long and/or blocked by hangars if you came closer.

Only helicopter displays were conducted along side the secondary runway. Displays by the Caracel (S1 performed 3x), Belgian A109 and Patrouille de Aspa. The Hind did not show up.

Static show included the Airbus zero-G, A400, German Tornado, Singapoore M346, RAF Hawk , Bronko, Rafale, Tigre, M2000-5, Rafale, M2000D, several older types of Mirage, B25, Alize, French Hawkeye, Crusader, DC3, etc. The A10 was cancelled. Indide an hangar which serves as the depot of a preservation society was an Etendard 4 (edit) / French navy 40, Canadair, Jaguar, Skyhawk and lots of other old stuff. The static was mainly parked between fences but I have seen worse in Istres last year. Still not good for photography but that was to be expected. Over-all it was a nice day.

Edit: A Mirage pilot from Luxeuil told me that they painted one of their M2000-5 in a beige scheme "similar to WW1 fighters". This is done to mark the 100th anniversary of Luxeuil AB (1917-2017). The paint was still wet, so they had to bring a normal one to the static.