On 25th July 1909, Louis Blériot, the French aviation pioneer, became the first aviator to fly across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air aircraft, Blériot XI monoplane. Louis Charles Joseph Blériot was born on 1st […]
On 18th July 1803, Étienne-Gaspard Robert set the new flight altitude record of 7,170 metres, flying with montgolfière-type hot air balloon. Étienne-Gaspard Robert was born on 15th June 1763, in the then Prince-Bishopric of Liége […]
On 11th July 1891, the French aviation pioneer and test pilot Joseph Sadi-Lecointe, was born in Saint-Germain-sur-Bresle, Somme department in France. In his early years, Sadi-Lecointe worked as mechanic in one of aviation factories near […]
On 17th June 2025, the Australian catamaran Rushour capsized while leading Groupama Race around New Caledonia. All on board were saved due to quick rescue operation carried out by Forces armées en Nouvelle-Calédonie – FANC […]
On 4th July 1753, the French inventor and aviation pioneer, as well as the first professional balloon pilot in the world, was born in Les Andelys, France. Since the childhood, Blanchard, a son of a […]
Jean-Pierre Blanchard, a French inventor, aviation pioneer and the world’s first professional balloon pilot, was born on 4 July 1753, in Les Andelys, France. From an early age, Blanchard displayed remarkable mechanical talent and a […]
On 23rd April 2025, Armée de l’air et de l’espace (the French Air and Space Force) held a live-fly training, codenamed CIGONEX. It was the first joint exercise of the French ´Cigognes´ (English: storks) squadrons, […]
Dassault Mirage IIIDS (c/n MD 470, HB-RDF, formerly ´J-2012´ of the Swiss Air Force), static display at the 75th Anniversary of Meiringen airfield, Meiringen, June 2016. In the early 1950s, the French Ministry of Defence […]
On 28th March 1910, an experimental floatplane developed by Henri Fabre, performed its first flight marking the aviation history with the first successful take-off of a powered, heavier-than-air aircraft from water. The first floatplane in […]
On 17th March 2025, the fifth edition of the French military space exercise – codenamed AsterX 2025 – began at Centre national d’études spatiales (National Centre for Space Studies – CNES), Toulouse Space Centre. Organised […]
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