Dassault MD 450 Ouragan, formerly ´UQ´ of the French Air Force (c/n 320), exhibited in the Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and Military History in Brussels, Belgium; September 2016. After the World War II, […]
Dassault Rafale M (´15´, c/n 31), Flottille 12F, Aéronavale (French Naval Aviation), NATO Tiger Meet 2014, Fliegerhorst Schleswig/Jagel, June 2014. A French-made, twin-engine multirole fighter aircraft known as the Dassault Rafale was officially introduced in […]
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry took-off for his last flight, a reconnaissance mission over the Rhone Valley. Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, comte de Saint-Exupéry – an aviator that needs no introduction. Who has not heard about ´The […]
The first passenger flight with two passengers performed by an aeroplane. The mentioned aircraft was Blériot XII, designed and built by the famous French aviation pioneer Louis Charles Joseph Blériot. He flew this new aeroplane […]
Dornier Werke Altenrhein D-3801 (Swiss licence-manufactured Morane-Saulnier M.S. 406), HB-RCF, during a display at Flugtage Schupfart, Switzerland, in June/July 2018. Morane-Saulnier M.S. 406 was the first modern fighter aircraft of the French Air Force, introduced […]
Nord Aviation 2501 Noratlas operated by L’association Le Noratlas de Provence, flying display during Tag der Bundeswehr open doors event at Fliegerhorst Landsberg/Penzing, June 2017. In late 1940s, the French Air Force opened the competition […]
The sad news about the mid-air collision of two French helicopters in Mali, killing thirteen, flashed around the world a few days ago. This tragedy, paradoxically, recalled the world about ´Operation Barkhane´, the French-led mission […]
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