After the USAF Beale Airshow, TopFlight.TV climbed in the cockpit of an Alpha Jet flown by Mark Peterson to capture air-to-air footage of the Patriots black diamond. The flight was the returned to home base at the Byron Airport in the delta region of northern California.
All images are actual screen shots from the HD footage shot by Brian Roat (BR-HD), except for the chin-cam shots which we in SD.
01. Ready for take-off out of Beale – view from the back seat of the Alpha Jet. How often do you ever get to sit at the end of an active Air Force Base runway?!?!
02. Looking up at Patriots Jet Team signature Black Diamond formation with smoke-on set against a stunning blue sky.
03. Same shot as #2 above but from a different perspective, see the Alpha Jet in the lower part of the frame. (Patriot #1 chin-cam)
04. Left bank flying over Folsom Lake.
05. Close-up shot of tight formation flight.
06. Beautiful shot of the Black Diamond on blue sky.
07. Patriots Jet Team holding tight formation.
08. Patriots L-39’s glisten in the afternoon Sun.
Here’s the link to the rest of our HD screenshot images of our air-to-air shoot with the Patriots Jet Team for our TopFlight.TV aviation video segment series.