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It has always been a subject of some controversy as to why the British stuck with the rather paltry 0.303in calibre for aircraft machine guns. To address this Both BSA and ROLLS-ROYCE developed a 0.5in calibre AMG, the latter apparently quite successful (though strangely, never adopted) and the...

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In the 80s, when the AdA withdrew its Mystère IVAs from service, some of them received somewhat special liveries !o_O It seems that one was painted in the colours of a fictitious Arab air force. Is there any picture of it ? :) View: https://www.flickr.com/photos/chaika12/34357274081

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While some weird dudes are celebrating the epitomized image of an autocrat, the french AdlAE discretely commemorates one of its hero pilot (Poet and novelist), Mr Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Free French air Force pilot, Croix de Guerre with palms, MIA, with the birth of its most famous character...

https://www.france24.com/en/20190725-france-develop-anti-satellite-laser-weapons-minister https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-france-space-defence/france-to-launch-fearsome-surveillance-satellites-to-bolster-space-defences-idUKKCN1UK1TR?utm_source=reddit.com

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...

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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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...

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

"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...

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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, does anyone know this Dewoitine aircraft which was designed in 1922 ?. http://www.flightglobal.com/PDFArchive/View/1922/1922%20-%200089.html?search=dewoitine%201922

Hi, The Amiot-170 was a high performance bomber floatplane project, it was to be a twin float with two inline Gnome-Rhone 14 N20/21 engines and twin fins and rudders and it had a high wing,maximum estimated speed was 459 km/h.

Perhaps someone has more infos about the Dassault proposal for the ECAT competition, which was known as the Cavalier (not to be mixed up with the VSTOL design with the same name) and which lost against the Br.121, later Jaguar. It would have been powered by two GE J85 engines and was intended...

Hi, the Breguet Br.600 was a twin engined amphibian seaplane Project,intended for A46 competition with Br.790.