The Armée de l'Air (literally, 'army of the air') is the name used for the French Air Force in its native language since it was made independent of the...
38 KB (5,401 words) - 23:01, 27 April 2024
Roland Garros (aviator) (category Lycée Janson-de-Sailly alumni)
Roland Garros editions of its 106, 108, 206, 207, 208, 306, 307, 406, and 806 models. History of the Armée de l'Air (1909–1942) "Dépôt judiciaire des...
21 KB (2,062 words) - 16:24, 7 June 2024
Dassault Rafale (since 2009) List of French Air and Space Force aircraft squadrons History of the Armée de l'Air (1909–1942) Aviation in World War I www.defense...
8 KB (729 words) - 10:17, 15 March 2024
of Africa (France) French Colonial Empire French colonial flags French Colonial Forces History of the Armée de l'Air (1909–1942) History of the Armée...
17 KB (2,125 words) - 16:36, 3 April 2024
French Air and Space Force (Armée de l'Air et de l'Espace) air base. Salon was a Gallo-Roman oppidum well positioned on the salt trade routes between Adriatic...
14 KB (968 words) - 01:36, 23 May 2024
Koolhoven F.K.58 (section Operational history)
contract by France. Intended for Armée de l'Air use, the F.K.58 saw limited service in the Battle of France. In 1938, the French Air Ministry noticed that...
15 KB (1,833 words) - 21:44, 9 April 2024
reaching into the most sensitive areas such as nuclear warheads. The Armée de l'Air became one of the first professional air forces in the world when it...
86 KB (10,830 words) - 20:46, 17 May 2024
1909. England: Midland Counties Publications. ISBN 0-904597-22-9. Camelio, Paul; Shores, Christopher (1976). Armee de l'Air – A Pictorial History of the...
98 KB (968 words) - 09:45, 18 May 2024
built, including 70 for Sweden as the J 28A for familiarization. 30 ex-RAF F.1s were transferred to the Armee de l'Air in 1948 for familiarization. TG431...
80 KB (9,604 words) - 22:05, 20 May 2024
(DMAC) El Cuerpo de Aviación Militar Dominicana (CAMD/AMD). The Army regained an air arm of its own in 2001. At the beginning of 1951, the Navy was authorized...
156 KB (1,827 words) - 21:52, 4 June 2024
Douglas A-20 Havoc (category World War II ground attack aircraft of the United States)
delivered to the Armée de l'Air. The remainder of the order which was to have been delivered to France was instead taken up by the UK via the British Purchasing...
54 KB (7,093 words) - 17:55, 2 June 2024
North American B-25 Mitchell (category World War II bombers of the United States)
Following the liberation of France, this squadron transferred to the newly formed French Air Force (Armée de l'Air) as GB I/20 Lorraine. The aircraft continued...
72 KB (9,514 words) - 09:47, 18 April 2024
2ème Régiment de Chasseurs Parachutistes de l’Armée de l’Air Groupe de Bombardement Lorraine Groupe de Chasse Ile-de-France Groupe de Chasse Alsace Nantes:...
15 KB (1,659 words) - 10:19, 30 April 2024
(Night Flight, Wind, Sand and Stars and The Little Prince) vanished in his P-38 of the French Armée de l'Air's Groupe de Chasse II/33, after departing Borgo-Porreta...
141 KB (18,822 words) - 11:22, 31 May 2024
design, successfully demonstrates the world's first operating ramjet. The Armée de l'Air orders a prototype aircraft, the Leduc 010, a few months later....
36 KB (5,175 words) - 16:17, 7 June 2024
Kōkūtai (category Military history of Japan)
comparable units included wing in the British Royal Air Force, gruppe in the German Luftwaffe, and groupe in the French Armée de l'Air. A kōkūtai could be based...
8 KB (1,057 words) - 15:41, 12 February 2024
Chartres – Champhol Aerodrome (category Airports established in 1909)
1936. It was reinforced by the Armée de l'Air as a military airfield after the Invasion of Poland in September 1939. The French Air Force based Morane-Saulnier...
12 KB (1,486 words) - 09:39, 10 February 2024
before 1 July 1909 outside the United States, it is in the public domain in the United States. As of 2013, Pierre De Geyter's music is also in the public domain...
63 KB (6,049 words) - 23:25, 1 June 2024
Foreign Legion Command (redirect from Command of the Foreign Legion)
Chief of Staff of the French Air Force (French: Chef d'État-Major de l'Armée de l'Air, CEMAA) French Special Operations Command (French: Commandement des...
36 KB (2,375 words) - 21:04, 4 May 2024
World War II with the French Armee de l'Air; also served with the RAF František Pitra (1932–2018), Czech politician; Prime Minister of the Czech Republic...
13 KB (1,541 words) - 20:50, 23 April 2024
Combat uniform (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
was mainly used as a winter walking-out uniform until the late 1950s. However, the armée de l'air used it in its dark blue version, until 2010. A proper...
53 KB (6,844 words) - 14:45, 19 April 2024
Marcel Riffard (category Recipients of the Croix de Guerre (France))
passengers at speeds of up to 186 mph (299 km/h). Goélands were operated by several companies, as well as both the French Armee de l'Air and the German Luftwaffe...
64 KB (6,200 words) - 02:44, 1 April 2024
Georges Thenault (category French military personnel of World War I)
remaining there for the duration of the war. Following the end of World War I, Captain Thenault continued military service in the Armée de l'Air (ALA) – literally...
44 KB (5,991 words) - 20:33, 12 February 2024
Hackensack, New Jersey (redirect from History of Hackensack, New Jersey)
World War I pilot in the Armée de l'Air and the recipient of the Legion of Honor and Croix de Guerre with two palms Dave Davis (1942–2022), professional ten-pin...
178 KB (20,697 words) - 14:34, 4 June 2024
needed] End of July Two Armee de l'Air Sud Aviation Vautour IIBs, 617 and 618, are lost in crash landings, on one day, due to a failure in the hydraulic...
380 KB (52,846 words) - 02:57, 3 June 2024
Ludomił Rayski (category Recipients of the Military Order of the Cross of the Eagle, Class II)
Although the sentence was never enacted, General Rayski was in fact demoted and left jobless. Rayski then volunteered for the French Armee de L'air, but was...
26 KB (3,366 words) - 20:38, 4 May 2024
October 1914 (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
Frantz and Corporal Louis Quenault of the Armée de l'Air Française were the first aviators in history to shoot down another aircraft with gunfire, downing...
95 KB (10,844 words) - 19:47, 10 December 2023
World Aircraft Information Files (category Transport magazines published in the United Kingdom)
partwork magazine published by Bright Star Publications (part of Midsummer Books) in the United Kingdom. Each issue was priced at £1.70 for issues 1–163...
83 KB (396 words) - 15:56, 27 February 2024
Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps (category 20th-century history of the United States Air Force)
(French: Armée de l'Air (ALA) airfields, the squadrons engaged in combat operations against enemy aircraft along the American Sector of the Western Front...
65 KB (9,032 words) - 10:29, 10 February 2024