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This thread is for the new High Command (or grand operations command in the French air force's parlance) for Space Operations of the Armée de l'Air Française that President Macron has just announced. A Space Force in other words. Apparently Macron intends to eventually rename the air force as...

Hello! I'm currently searching the data about this little guy: This is BHT-38 (Bombe Hurel-Turck) radio-controlled glide bomb, designed for French military shortly before World War 2. It was supposed to have a weight about 160 kg. Some examples were tested in 1940, but Fall of the France...

Although I was pretty sure this had been discussed on the forum before, I've searched many topics over the past couple of hours but found nothing... So I'm posting it here, hoping it doesn't duplicate anything (and if it does, by all means please show me where it was so the two can be merged)...

Hi! Latécoère 550. You can see some vertical tail stabilizer shape. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lat%C3%A9co%C3%A8re_550 "The Latécoère 550 was a four-engined French seaplane, designed in the early 1930s as a bomber/torpedo bomber. Though initial handling problems were partly resolved, the...

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Hi! MATRA R.130. MATRA R.130 uses a folding wing with a flap (wing span 12m) in the speed area from taking off and landing to Mach 0.65. Store a folding wing when speed is over Mach 0.65, and make a body revolve 90 °, and 2 of fixed wing which is at the top and the bottom of the fuselage (wing...

I've caught papacavy's "What If" disease, but this is purely for interest rather than literary purposes. As we all know, the Fairey Battle was an airplane which, once tested in combat, did not imbue its crews with any confidence that they would come home from attacking defended targets. Let's...

Hi, As I promised before,we can take here about French Aircraft Specifications,and we start year by year,that 's meaning;we will speak about one year at first to complete its Specifications and contenders,we will leave two to three days to each year...

SNCAO was a short-lived company originating from the nationalization of Loire-Nieuport and Breguet factories. It had design studies in Issy-les-Moulineaux (former Nieuport), using even numbers (200, 400...), and in Saint-Nazaire (former Loire), using odd numbers. - CAO.200 fighter, 1 built -...

Hi, here is the Max Holste H-20 P.1 twin boom shoulder high wing glider, I think one was built. http://www.retroplane.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=54470

Some Dassault Mirage 2000 goodness from Les Chevaliers du Ciel HD Promo! View: http://youtu.be/HEe3xfWfkG8 View: http://youtu.be/60XPS66MxmA

Boeing KC-135 model with winglets found on eBay. Source: http://www.ebay.com/itm/NASA-USAF-AIR-FORCE-KC-135-WINGLETS-MODEL-KC135-/251161721311?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3a7a67b9df Seller's description:

"Rafale: Now Drawing Fire At Home" Posted by Robert Wall at 12/8/2011 5:19 AM CST It is certainly Rafale's time in the crosshairs. The French government is adding to the already huge pressure on Dassault to secure an export deal, warning the long-term prospects of the twin-engine fighter...

Dear Boys and Girls, here is an article in French about the amazing SNECMA C.450-01 Coléoptère (Beetle) VTOL research prototype. The article describes the thrust/directional control systems necessary and preparations for the Coléoptère's first flight (which took place 6th May 1959)…… The...

Dear Boys and Girls, here is an article in French announcing the development of the Bréguet Br.765 Super Deux-Ponts which is an enlarged and pressurised derivative of the well-known Bréguet. Br.760/761S/763 Deux-Ponts/Provence series...... The Bréguet Br.765 Super Deux-Ponts was not built and...

Random thought.... Have there been any designs for jet VTOL tailsitters, on paper or actually built, with the engine reversed in the airframe and the efflux turned 180 degrees or so to exit from the nose? It's not hard to imagine such a design with a pair of Harrier-style rotating louvers for...

Hi, here is a little known aircraft,the Breguet Br.420,it was bomber recce aircraft ,design was based on Br.414. http://www.airwar.ru/enc/bww1/br420.html http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=ar&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http://www.airwar.ru/enc/bww1/br420.html&sl=ru&tl=en&swap=1

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Trying to find any information about postwar SNCASE warplane projects here, i'm find out that there is no information about SE-1010, high altitude reconnaissanse plane. It looks very close to Republic XF-12 Rainbow. Here some information about SE-1010. First flight was made by Jacques LECARME...

Hi all, you know Yvan Makhonine? This french inventor build the Mak.10 (1931) and the Mak.123 (1947) with variable wing geometry. Anybody knows other projects of this man? I need also a short history, but not in french... Servus Maveric