Airbus and ATR at Toulouse Aug 14th 2012

This year my family and I are holidaying in the south of France, I managed to tear away from the pool for a day to visit Toulouse Blagnac.
It is not possible to know in advance what will be flying from the factories but I am happy with what I caught this day.

Lots of heatwaves in this image but this UAE A330 MRTT was certainly worth a picture

This is part of the Russian presidential fleet, not the airline. See the Russian registration and windows arrangment

Flying testbed

I wish I had found these behind the hangars in the morning, when the sun was still in the right place for a good picture

On the way back to the pool I found this lot at a little airport 20K south of Cahors

A Jodel

This last one was actively dropping parachutists. Interesting to see that after the drop it powerdived down to the airport and was already loading the next batch when the parachutists landed!

Greetings from the Dordogne
EC