Now in English:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...eboul-provence
Made by France’s Dassault and Germany’s Dornier, the Alpha jet is a light attack and advanced trainer aircraft used by the French air force aerobatic display team, La Patrouille de France, and to train fighter pilots. It has a top speed of 620 mph and guzzles about 175 gallons (800 litres) of fuel an hour.
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French media calculated that with the advanced jet fuel the aircraft runs on, each one of the general’s weekends away will have cost the airforce – and the taxpayer – between €14,000 (£12,300) and €16,000. A return train or low-cost airline fare would reportedly cost less than €200.
Must be time to give him gardening leave during the enquiry, which will only be concluded after his death and burial with full military honours...