Meeting Aérien de l'Amicale Jean Salis - La Ferté Alais

Meeting Aérien de l'Amicale Jean Salis - La Ferté Alais

This air show is held every year at the Great Sunday weekend at the "Aérodrome du Cerny" near La Ferté Alais some 40km south of Paris. It is an event made by aviation fans for aviation fans and with many many aviation fans (and aircraft) participating. Only prop-driven aircraft are allowed, oh, just one jet shows up, an Étendard of the Aéronavale base nearby. The airfield is the home of the Collection Salis but this weekend much more is on show. See yourself:
Airshow calendar

Blériot XI mit Anzani - Motor

propeller... From the era of the pioneers a Blériot XI is on show everytime. This one here is a replica of that plane Louis Blériot crossed the Dover Channel the first time ever. Very well shown is here the Anzani 3 cylinder engine in pristine condition. By the way: The engine has got no throttle. You can swith on ignition, that means "full power", or you could switch off ignition, which causes the engine to slow down the aircraft, but it keeps turning from the airflow driving the
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Morane Saulnier MS 35 Hélène

The Hélène is an example for those light and small aircraft built in the time right before the war. The lightweight design was driven by a comparable powerful rotation engine. On calm days she's shown in flight.
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Caudron G III - Combat aircraft of world war I

A fragile construction, whic is on top not very stable in flight. So, in trhe most times the spectators need to be satisfied watching it rolling down the runway without getting airborne.
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Morane MS 29 C1 Monoplace Fighter

The Morane 29 is a good example of the quite modern looking designs from the second half of WW I. Here at La Ferté she takes into the air everytime a mockup- dogfight is going to be staged.
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Fokker Triplane & SE 5 A

This is a scene from a mockup dogfight between a Fokker Dr. 1 (the famous Fokker triplane) and a british SE 5 A.
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Wingwalker

After the WW 1 was over, a lot of now unemployed pilots had to earn for a living and some did it at flying circuses. Wingwalking .... the copilot climbing out of the cockpit and standing on the upper wing, or sitting on the nose of the lower wing. This art of flying faded a bit but came up the last years again.
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Bücker Bu 133 Jungmeister - Kunstflugdoppeldecker

For most of the aviation enthusiasts, the Jungmeister is literally the classic aerobatics biplane. The design was very popular, so Jungmeisters have been build in Spain by CASA and in Czekoslowakia at Aero long into the 50ies.
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Jodel D 92 Bébé

This design made Jodel a famous designer. It' should be a simple inexpensive private aircraft that's easy to fly and to maintain. For the stability in flight he designed this very characteristical wing which is typical for all Jodel designs.
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North American Texan / Harvard

The Harvard (North American NA16) is an aircraft for advanced flight instruction from the II.nd world war and shortly afterwards. Today it's very popular as a kind of an "entry-level-warbird". Harvards have got a very distinctive noise which comes from the propeller's tips going supersonic and it's old-style look. At La Ferté usually more than a dozen of them are on show. Flying all of them in a single formation is the grand finale of the show.
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Spitfire Mk XI & Hurricane Mk II

Well-seen guests in every show at La Ferté are a Spitfire and a Hurricane from Duxford. Nobody would miss these two in a show about european aviation history.
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B 17 Flying Fortress

The largest aircraft in the collection and on the show is the B 17. She needs so many space for take-off and landing that it can't be operated from the small airfield in La Ferté. So it's based at the Air Force base nearby. It's really a show when the B 17 makes it low fly by with it's fighter CAP at it's wingtips.
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Jak 11 Normandie Niemen

This JAK 11 is in the tradition and to remember the fighter squad Normandie-Njemen. It was a squad formed by volunteer french pilots in the red army. They've been given JAK 3 and 9. In France their memory is still alive and so a JAK 11 is wearing Normandie-Njemen's colors. The JAK 11 is quite popular in France and so at every La Ferte airshow a few of them show up.
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A formation of Harvards

This is an image of the grande finale of the show, when all the Harvards attending are flying in one large formation - a few that's quite seldom in europe.
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North American OV 10 A Bronco - Luftwaffe

The Bronco was designed as a light attack, observation and pathfinder in Viet Nam. In Europe it was in service with the german Luftwaffe as a target for air-to-air and ground-to-air gunnery. German Broncos have all been sold to private hands and one shows up regularly on air shows in nearly the original colors.
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Mudry CAP 232

There's no real airshow without aerobatics. At La Ferté is a strong part of the show dedicated to this discipline, from fun flying up to multiple world aerobatics champions showing their skill in incredible looking maneuvres. Here's a Mudry Cap 232 on which the world championship a few years ago was won.
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Pitts S 3 Special

The Pitts Special is to be seen everywhere, when really spectacular aerobatics is on show. With it's old-fashioned look and the powerful engine she's a magnet to the spectators. In La Ferte are more than one, displaying a synchronous show.
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Patrouille Adecco (1998)

In 1998 at La Ferté an excuisite display was shown by the Patrouille Adecco, a 4-ship aerobatics squad made of professionals sponsored by Adecco, a major body shopping company. The show was top notch in terms of precision and skill. Unfortunately, Adecco sponsored just one season and two of the 4 were later underway as the Team Apache.
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Zlin Akro

This is one of the Czech Trainers that were in use at the "Gesellschaft für Sport und Technik" of the German democratic republic. On this extra image you can admire this pilot: He's flying inverted (bottom up) at much less than 30" (10m) height!
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Fire Bombers

Another fixed part of the show is the appearance of the flying firefighters of the Securité Civile. They are flying Canadairs and converted military bombers and transporters. Peak of the show is when a fire on the runway is extinguished by the flying fire brigade.
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Super Étendard

This is the single not propeller-driven aircraft on the show. The Super Étendard of the Aéronavale comes from the air base nearby and shows a few fly-bys and maneuvres.
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