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It’ll be a battle of the home team Snowbirds and the tricoloured visitors Patrouille de France this Sunday at Aero 150, a special edition air show in the National Capital Region.
It’s the first visit to Canada since 1986 for the Patrouille, who are as famous for roaring over the Champs-Élysée on Bastille Day as the Snowbirds are for their Canada Day flypasts on Parliament Hill.
“I’m sure there’ll be some vying for bragging rights,” said Girvan Patterson, spokesman for Aero 150.
“The Snowbirds have actually altered their schedule slightly so they can be here for this.”
Canadian Forces Snowbirds will perform Sunday at Aero 150 in Gatineau.
The Snowbirds are no stranger to Ottawa-Gatineau with their annual Canada appearance, but a full show from the Royal Canadian Air Force aerobatic team is less common. Sunday’s show will be the first of the Snowbirds’ 2017 season. The team arrives on Friday.
Formed in 1931, the eight-plane Patrouille de France is the world’s oldest aerobatic team and will visit Ottawa-Gatineau at the end of a North American tour. The team flies sleek Alpha jets and is backed up by a massive Airbus A400 support plane.
“They have a very French panache,” Patterson said. “They’re very elegant and beautifully painted, and with the red white and blue smoke they put on a really good show.”
Other aircraft scheduled to perform include the Second World War-era Hawker Hurricane, North American P-51 Mustang and Vought Corsair belonging to Ottawa tech magnate Michael Potter’s Vintage Wings collection, a flypast by an RCAF Aurora maritime patrol aircraft, and a Starduster aerobatic biplane. The Canadian Forces Skyhawks parachute team will also put on an aerial display.
Flying in but on static ground display will be two Royal Air Force Typhoon jets, which arrive Saturday around 5 p.m., and an RCAF CF-18, also arriving Saturday. The air force’s designated air show CF-18 was not available, Patterson said.
“Ironically, the Canada 150th commemorative jet is committed to an air show in Louisiana that weekend.”
The Hawker Hurricane (foreground) and P-51 Mustang of Gatineau’s Vintage Wings will give flying demonstrations at Aero 150.
Admission to the air show at Gatineau-Ottawa Executive Airport at 1717 Rue Arthur-Fecteau is free, although a donation of $5 is suggested. The wet spring means the usual parking isn’t available, so the air show will be using street parking and parking in nearby industrial lots. A shuttle bus will bring visitors to the site. Patterson urges visitors to car pool if possible and arrive early to avoid congestion.
The Gatineau air show usually takes place in the summer, but organizers only learned in December that the Patrouille de France would be available. That left just a few months to organize a show they usually begin planning a year in advance.
“It’s been busy,” Patterson said. “It’s going to be a big deal. It’s going to be one of the first big Canada 150 celebrations.”
The one thing organizers can’t plan for, of course, is the weather. That looks iffy, with the forecast calling for a 70 per cent chance of rain and a high of 14 C.
Those who can’t make the show can still watch it online. Aero 150 plans to live-stream the whole six-hour performance on its website. For more information and a full list of aircraft, visit aero150.com
bcrawford@postmedia.com
Twitter.com/getBAC
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It’s the first visit to Canada since 1986 for the Patrouille, who are as famous for roaring over the Champs-Élysée on Bastille Day as the Snowbirds are for their Canada Day flypasts on Parliament Hill.
“I’m sure there’ll be some vying for bragging rights,” said Girvan Patterson, spokesman for Aero 150.
“The Snowbirds have actually altered their schedule slightly so they can be here for this.”
Canadian Forces Snowbirds will perform Sunday at Aero 150 in Gatineau.
The Snowbirds are no stranger to Ottawa-Gatineau with their annual Canada appearance, but a full show from the Royal Canadian Air Force aerobatic team is less common. Sunday’s show will be the first of the Snowbirds’ 2017 season. The team arrives on Friday.
Formed in 1931, the eight-plane Patrouille de France is the world’s oldest aerobatic team and will visit Ottawa-Gatineau at the end of a North American tour. The team flies sleek Alpha jets and is backed up by a massive Airbus A400 support plane.
“They have a very French panache,” Patterson said. “They’re very elegant and beautifully painted, and with the red white and blue smoke they put on a really good show.”
Other aircraft scheduled to perform include the Second World War-era Hawker Hurricane, North American P-51 Mustang and Vought Corsair belonging to Ottawa tech magnate Michael Potter’s Vintage Wings collection, a flypast by an RCAF Aurora maritime patrol aircraft, and a Starduster aerobatic biplane. The Canadian Forces Skyhawks parachute team will also put on an aerial display.
Flying in but on static ground display will be two Royal Air Force Typhoon jets, which arrive Saturday around 5 p.m., and an RCAF CF-18, also arriving Saturday. The air force’s designated air show CF-18 was not available, Patterson said.
“Ironically, the Canada 150th commemorative jet is committed to an air show in Louisiana that weekend.”
The Hawker Hurricane (foreground) and P-51 Mustang of Gatineau’s Vintage Wings will give flying demonstrations at Aero 150.
Admission to the air show at Gatineau-Ottawa Executive Airport at 1717 Rue Arthur-Fecteau is free, although a donation of $5 is suggested. The wet spring means the usual parking isn’t available, so the air show will be using street parking and parking in nearby industrial lots. A shuttle bus will bring visitors to the site. Patterson urges visitors to car pool if possible and arrive early to avoid congestion.
The Gatineau air show usually takes place in the summer, but organizers only learned in December that the Patrouille de France would be available. That left just a few months to organize a show they usually begin planning a year in advance.
“It’s been busy,” Patterson said. “It’s going to be a big deal. It’s going to be one of the first big Canada 150 celebrations.”
The one thing organizers can’t plan for, of course, is the weather. That looks iffy, with the forecast calling for a 70 per cent chance of rain and a high of 14 C.
Those who can’t make the show can still watch it online. Aero 150 plans to live-stream the whole six-hour performance on its website. For more information and a full list of aircraft, visit aero150.com
bcrawford@postmedia.com
Twitter.com/getBAC
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