Since 2023, French Guiana – an overseas department of France located in the northern part of South America, between Suriname and Brazil – is suffering from extreme drought. In addition, the eighteen-month-long dry season French […]
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 […]
Eugène Adrien Roland Georges Garros, the French aviation pioneer and fighter pilot, was born on 6th October 1888, in Saint-Denis, Réunion island. In 1909, Garros bought his first aircraft, an old Demoiselle, and began learning […]
On 24th September 1940, Vichy France carried out its first air raid on Gibraltar, a British Overseas Territory located at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula. Approximately sixty bombers of the Vichy French Air […]
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, […]
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