The Sports et Collection airshow at Poitiers-le Vigeant (France) on 12 and 13 June had the premiere of the new Armée de l’Air et de l’Espace Dassault Rafale solo display. The Rafale C demo aircraft with code with code 4-GR, belongs to the inventory of ETR03.004 based at BA113 Saint-Dizier-Robinson. This unit also supplied the demo Rafale during the 2019 airshow season, coded 4-IM.
The demo machine is beautifully painted (several shades of blue and white over the standard grey, and canards in red, white and blue, the French national colours. RSD2021 (Rafale Solo Display 2021) is the second new French demo, besides the Mustang X, demoteam, on which Scramble reported earlier.
Photos: Benoit Cloet via Les DCA, and Armée de l’Air et de l’Espace (air-to-air photo)