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RCAF Capt. "Manik" Grunge prepares to board CF-18 Demo 2014, with RCAF Snowbirds in the background, at SACE 2014 Airshow, in Bromont, QC, CDN
NATO Air Policing is a peacetime activity conducted 365 days a year to preserve the safety and sovereignty of Allied airspace. At the invitation of NATO, journalists toured Alliance airspace aboard a Belgian Air Force Airbus 321-200 on 14 January 2020. They were intercepted by fighter aircraft from a variety of NATO and partner nations. French Rafale fighters intercepted the Belgian Airbus as it entered French airspace. The Rafale is a multirole fighter used by the French Air Force.
A Boeing F-15E Strike Eagle belonging to the 333d Fighter Squadron prepares to depart on a training sortie. As part of the pre-flight check the pilot has deployed the airplane's dorsal mounted air brake, jokingly called the barn door. This air brake allows the airplane to slow down rapidly after landing and replaced braking parachutes that were used on earlier generations of fighter jets. The 333d "LANCERS" Fighter Squadron is part of the 4th Fighter Wing at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina. It operates F-15E Strike Eagle aircraft and conducts advanced fighter training.
Indian Air Force Su-30's visiting RAF Coningsby re Exercise Indradhanush. The 2nd of the four to land does so in style with drag/brake chute deployment (SB138)
4056 Polish F-16C, belonging to the 31.BLT, based at Poznań-Krzesiny Airport. This was also a participant during the 2021 Kleine Brogel spottersday.
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Capitaine Chrystel Nadeau-Gonnet, French Mirage fighter pilot (Femme pilote de chasse)
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Chrystel Nadeau-Gonnet, head in the clouds
At 32, the Orne is among the few female fighter pilots in France. A passion for the sky and aviation born on the slopes of the aerodrome of Alençon. Course.
This is what is called passing in gale. Chrystel Nadeau-Gonnet has already flown on a few occasions, the Alençon airfield aboard her Mirage F1. A hello to members of the Aero Club, which more than 800 h / km, takes no more than four seconds. " They know it's me, I warn you , "she smiled. A nod to those who have seen it evolve to become a fighter pilot in 2005.
It is in the Orne, where she grew up, that Chrystel Nadeau-Gonnet began flying on its own. " As a teenager, I wanted to get high , she recalls. Stealing was like a dream for me. " Upon entering high school Alain, in Alencon, she attended the Wednesday afternoon noon to get his patent Initiation in Aerospace. A sesame learning to fly in the flying club of the city. She got her private pilot's license, two years later, at age 18 just ...
" As a woman, I had not thought about it "
While participating in the Tour de France Young Drivers In 1999, she crosses paths with Laloix Philippe, a former fighter pilot and member of the Patrouille de France. He encourages them to take the examination of the Air Force, the best school, he said, to learn to fly. " As a woman, I had not thought of , "recalls Chrystel Nadeau-Gonnet. It must be said that they are still a dozen then, since 1999, to have hoisted in the cockpit of a Mirage ...! An exciting and demanding job, both physically and mentally speaking, warns the young woman. " We must stay focused at all times, calculate all provided with all ten steps ahead . "
Today, she wears jeans, heels and lipstick. But his work clothes, this is the G-suit, helmet and combat vest. No less than ten pounds of equipment on each flight. To achieve thread, it took him a steely resolve. " In life, we must provide the means to achieve its ambitions, put the odds on his side , "she says. So, before you enter the competition, it is not possible to pass only once and each test is eliminatory, it puts the odds on his side.
Pulls, rope, run, run: for one year, she trains firefighters Caen, while preparing its license Economics and International Business at the University. In June 2011, the results fall. Restraint. Only 48 women candidates! " The aircraft is a very masculine world, but as a woman, there is accustomed , she admits. should make its way, but it's the same for men, everyone should be accepted in the squadron. "
"Finally, all these sacrifices were worth."
The basic training of a fighter pilot takes four and a half years on average. Chrystel Nadeau-Gonnet her classes in Salon-de-Provence, before a theoretical one-year training and flight training on TB30 in Cognac. In 2004, she joined the school Hunting Tours for its first flights on jet aircraft, jet alpha. After hundreds of hours of flight, she obtained her pilot's license to hunt, in July 2005. " I received my badge from the hands of Defense Minister in person, Michele Alliot-Marie , "is she recalls. In April 2009, after three years as an instructor and a year at the School of Operational Transition Cazaux, she morphed into squadron of Mirage F1, on the basis of Reims. " I felt that finally, all the sacrifices, all those years of work were worth . " Today, after several missions and more than 1,500 flight hours, Chrystel Nadeau-Gonnet will start from Cognac pass on his knowledge to young recruits. His contract with the army continued until 2016. It may be to other horizons fly.