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May 29, 1968 hit the News that Charles DeGaulle die in a Helicopter crash near Baden-Baden, Germany The unstable Political scene and struggle for his successor and let to a civil war. Between the right wing, conservative and Army against Left wing socialist, Communist, labor unions and students...

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...

Dear Boys & Girls, here is a "Secret Project" for you; a double-ended Noratlas version. I believe the cockpit section was removed from one damaged aircraft and grafted onto the rear fuselage of another! Probably to allow observers to watch (in comfort) the parachutists leave the lateral doors...

I came across this neat OSS briefing film referenced in the Wikipedia article on the M29 Weasel. The 10 minute video--worth the wait, I promise--includes some discussion of the various alternative approaches to travel across ice and snow that were evaluated as well as a lot of footage of the...

Hi, here is some Breguet projects; Br.24C1 was single seat fighter powered by Lorraine 450 hp engine intended for the 1923 C1 program. Br.25C2 was two seat fighter powered by Lorraine 480 hp engine intended for the 1925 C2 program. Br.29 was seaplane version of Br.27...

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

A little info about two MS projects, the Morane Saulnier MS-1010 was developed from MS-1000 for ADAV and the MS-1020 was two seat trainer version of MS-1000, does anyone know more ?.

Hi, in Flightglobal,they said that the Nord N.2500 was research aircraft, I am confuse and I don't know this aircraft,any explaination please. http://www.flightglobal.com/PDFArchive/View/1949/1949%20-%200868.html

Hi, The Bertin HB-12 was a project of large version of HB-11 powered by three General Electric J85 engines.

... but nevertheless, I've looked for material about this aircraft, the SNCAC NC.211 Cormoran for quite a long time, and now I've found a "commercial" 3-view in the RAF Flying Review 11/62. And at once, it puzzles me ! The drawing depicts the landing gear as a retractable one and this is...

- The 3-view of the Payen Pa.310 is shown on http://home.att.net/~dannysoar2/Payen2.htm, a site with other interesting Payen stuff, unfortunately only a small part of those projects, which could be shown ... :'(

The Mirage III was the winner of a competition for a multirole, mach 2 fighter. Its only two competitors were the rocket-powered Trident II, and the Durandal which was quite similar to the Mirage, with a frontal air intake. The Trident was eliminated as too specialised, and the Durandal because...

Hi everybody, do anyone know SNCASO Delta XV very small delta wing research aircraft?, and why it was designed?.

here is anther projects I don't know them, SNCASO E-1910;SO-1340 and SO-1350.

The Fouga Magister was the final development which actually started with the jet powered CM.8 Sylphe and its derivatives. The CM.82R Lutin was a try, to find a military marked for a very light jet in the attack role ( Photo : Les Avions De Combat Francais 1944 - 60, Jean Cuny) The "Projet...