The Aviation Magazine 51 July-August 2017 | Page 70
Patrouille de France pilots posing at Salon‐de‐Provence before their departure. All of
them are highly skilled air force pilots with thousands of flight hours in several fighter
and strike aircraft types. We are introducing the Team in detail on the following pages.
Worth noting that the PAF aircraft are displaying images of WWI French Ace pilots next
to the Flight School emblem. The Aces are also shown besides the pilot descriptions.
Olivier Ravenel /Armée de l'Air / Défense
Capitane Georges Madon with 41 victories on the right side of aircraft #0 above, and Capi‐
tane Alfred Heurtaux on aircraft #9, below.