Fly the Alphajet in France. This will be very new very shortly, but a little mouse has given us the news. And this is great. The Alphajet is a fantastic jet fighter. We should say jet trainer as it was sort of designed to train jet fighter pilots in France, Germany, but also in the UK and other countries. The aircraft was designed and built by the French Dassault with the German Dornier. They started working on the project in 1968 and developed the concept until the first aircraft took to the skies in 1973 for the test model, and then 79 for the real ones. The Alpha Jet is quite easily recognizable, with the wings mounted on top. It is a very nice looking aircraft, and designed to be easy to fly. France and Belgium are still today, training new recruits on this jet fighter. I guess the plane got famous because it is used by the Patrouille de France, the French national display team, and they are showing every day how good this jet is.

(photo: Sylvain Artu: http://www.sylvainphotos.eu/)

And now about the great news. A few French passionate people have now managed to achieve their project, which is to share their passion of their job: fighter pilot. And to do so, they have invested a lot of money into purchasing an Alphajet. This plane will be stationed in Bordeaux, and should be ready to take passengers into the skies in mid 2012. In the meantime, the pilots still have a lot of paperwork to work on to clear the administrative hurdles, but they say the plane will be ready to fly in july 2012. Here we all think this is fantastic news as it offers diversity on the jet fighter rides one can seek.

It adds an aircraft to the collection of L39 Albatros, Fouga Magister, Mirage III, Mig 29 that one can find. And the Alphajet is a really serious aircraft that should deliver great adrenaline. We can’t wait for this. Check out the video of what it feels like to fly this jet fighter.

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