Escadrille de Liaisons Aériennes 43 'Medoc' has been a small liaison unit of the French air force here at Bordeaux for 70 years. Note the Escadrille's stagecoach emblem highlighted in this anniversary special paint scheme - so much cooler than the usual bombastic military insignia.

Mirage 2000 bomber of EC 3 at Nancy, painted in a desert colour scheme to commemorate the Ouadi Doum raid of 1987.

They never miss an airshow, the men and women of the Gendarmerie.

An airshow at Bordeaux provided an opportunity to see the aircraft of the CAEA collection. Its Broussard is seen parked under the starboard tailboom of its Noratlas, with open clamshell doors.

Solo display Rafale taxiing in after its first show of the 2017 season.

The Breguet 14 was pretty fast and one of the best reconnaissance bombers of the Great War. After the war it went on to play an important role as a mailplane, especially with Lignes Aériennes Latécoère. This machine, first flown in 2003, has a nicely concealed modern Lycoming engine and the new designation Breguet 14P, which I'd say relieves it from being a replica.

Aero Subaru turned into Aero Samurai!

With tail marking celebrating 25 years of Belgian military service for the A109. I remember that a huge corruption scandal followed the purchase. It is certainly a beautiful helicopter, though hardly the werewolf painted on this display machine.

The CAEA aircraft collection includes this Mirage 5, which was originally ordered by Israel, and a Mirage F.1 which was never delivered to Iraq.

Actually No 370, this Magister was to be delivered to Cameroon after its French service career, but this did not go ahead.