The Eagle Patrol has said goodbye forever. He did it at home, from the San Javier Air Base (Murcia), like a Colophon of the Air Festival 25, which was held this weekend with total help from almost half a million people.
The formation started at around 13:20, his maneuvers carried out the waters of the Mar Menor and in the presence of local, regional authorities and their Majesty King Felipe VI, who, who They have seen the perfect performance of the exhibition With the help of C-101 hunters.
Exactly, the end of the Eagle Patrol is directly related to the withdrawal of the C-101, the hunt that during the 40th anniversary that the formation has just been filled, played in the acrobatic flights in both Spain and for the rest of the planet.
Last flight of the Eagle Patrol
Murcia
It is one Instruction plane that flew for the first time in the late 1970s And from which several generations of pilots have come from the air and space army. It is therefore the end of an era within the air branch of the Ministry of Defense, which currently remains without an relay.
Last June 4, The Eagle Patrol was 40 years of activity Since the first five Blackbirds, as a hunt for the Air Force, made their first training flight on the General Air Academy on the same base of San Javier.
For an hour, as they point out of the Spanish defense magazinethe hunters made all kinds of figures in formation, including barrels and Loopwitnesses of good performance that The platform had signed since the flight was raised in the early summer of 1977.
Among the characteristic maneuvers of the Eagle Patrol, who does not perform any other in the world, is that of the Landing of all reactors togetherA moment when the extraordinary integration of all its passengers emphasizes when they are confronted with the unison to the most delicate operational maneuver.
Acrobatic formation on the last flight of the Eagle Patrol
Murcia
“I asked for volunteers and 15 pilots came out in totalAlthough five of them never fly, “Francisco Carrizosa, subsequently captain of the Air Force, retires today, who founded the Eagle Patrol and was exercised as the head and leader of it.
The The first woman who joined the Eagle Patrol was Rosa María García-Malea LópezOf course from Almería, who took over the checks of a C-101 in 2017, a decade after he had become the first hunting pilot in the Air Force.
Only 10 days after the first contact of the pilots held on June 4, The Eagle Patrol traveled to Jerez de la FronteraWhere he carried out the first air exhibition of his history against the general public and harvest the first of a countless number of successes over the entire planet.
During all this time, they have gathered no less than 38,000 flying hours and more than 20,000 missions In more than 500 exhibitions, 170 of them were executed outside of Spain.
