Military Jets Photography: 2009 06 28 Meeting de l'air Reims

The main theme of the Meeting was the 100th anniversary of the first Meeting Aérien held in the Champagne area in 1909. Therefore some pretty old aircraft and replica's were present at Reims, both flying and on static display. After entereing the base I had a look at the static display and the flightlines. Unfortunately the position of the aircraft parked at the static display was very disappointing. Many of them were parked in between fences which made it very hard to take good shots of them.

The interesting part of the flying display started with a fly-by of a C-135FR tanker with two Mirage 2000Ns of Luxeuil. Both Mirages made some very impressive fly-by's afterwards. Lots of aerobatic teams participated in the flying display.
In the end the Meeting du Centenaire at BA112 Reims-Champagne was very disappointing. As said before it was very hard to take good shots of the static display. And the flying display was very disappointing as well. The gaps in between the displays was very disturbing and we didn't see any Mirage F.1s flying, which was also one of the main goals.