On 10th January 1935, the French six engine, double deck long-range flying boat Latécoère 521, performed its first flight. The Latécoère 521 was one of many seaplanes designed and built by Pierre-Georges Latécoère, the French […]
On 21st November 2024, the seventh example of Dassault Rafale multirole fighter for the Croatian Air Force and Air Defence (Hrvatsko ratno zrakoplovstvo i protuzračna obrana – CroAF) landed at the ´Colonel Marko Živković´ air […]
On 22nd November 1954, Aviation légère de l’armée de Terre – ALAT (the French Army Light Aviation) was formed to provide observation, reconnaissance, assault and supply duties for Armée de Terre (the French ground forces). […]
227 years ago, on 22nd October 1797, the French aviation pioneer, André-Jacques Garnerin, performed the first successful parachute descent, using the frameless parachute he invented. André-Jacques Garnerin was born on 30th January 1769, in Paris. […]
On 18th October 1909, Charles de Lambert, flying Wright Model A aeroplane, became the first person to circle the Eiffel Tower with an aircraft. Charles Alexandre Maurice Joseph Marie Jules Stanislas Jacques Count de Lambert […]
Socata TB-10 Tobago GT (c/n 2113, PH-COP), static display at 44th Sanicole International Airshow, Hechtel-Eksel, September 2024. In the mid-1970s, the French aviation company Société de construction d’avions de tourisme et d’affaires – SOCATA, developed […]
On 20th September 1857, Félix du Temple performed a successful flight of his unmanned, steam-powered aircraft. Félix du Temple de la Croix was born on 18th July 1823, into an ancient Norman family. In 1838, […]
Colomban MC-15 Cri-Cri (c/n 248, F-PYTX), flying display at Letecký den Cheb (Aviation Day Cheb), Cheb, August 2024. In the early 1970s, French aeronautical engineer, Michel Colomban – who was working for Morane-Saulnier and then […]
On 13th September 1978, AS332 Super Puma, medium-sized utility helicopter, performed its first flight. The rotorcraft was developed as an upgraded variant of SA 330 Puma, the helicopter developed in the mid-1960s by the French […]
On 30th August 1914, only a month after the outbreak of the Great War, a single German Taube aircraft performed an air raid on the French capital, dropping a few bombs and a bag of […]
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