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    The Aeronautical Medal (French: "Médaille de l'Aéronautique") is a state decoration of France established by the decree of February 14, 1945. It is awarded...
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    Jacques Chirac (category Recipients of the Aeronautical Medal)
    2006. Retrieved 5 March 2024. "Kadhafi awards Chirac the Grand Conqueror Medal". Archived from the original on 26 May 2021. Retrieved 23 March 2021. "Tildelinger...
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    Spirit of Freedom (balloon) (category Recipients of the Aeronautical Medal)
    Spirit of Freedom balloon was a Rozière balloon designed and built by Donald Cameron and Tim Cole. In 2002 solo pilot Steve Fossett flew the Spirit of...
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  • This is a list of some of the modern orders, decorations and medals of France. Some, like the Legion of Honour, are awarded to both the armed forces and...
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  • the Royal Aeronautical Society. In 1923 its principal journal was renamed from The Aeronautical Journal to The Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society...
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    Serge Dassault (category Recipients of the Aeronautical Medal)
    Serge Dassault (French: [sɛʁʒ daso]; born Serge Paul André Bloch; 4 April 1925 – 28 May 2018) was a French engineer, businessman and politician. He was...
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    order, a Medal of Aeronautical Virtue was created on 24 February 1931. Originally named the Aeronautical Medal, and having three classes, the Medal was intended...
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    Philippe de Gaulle (category Recipients of the Aeronautical Medal)
    1980) Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit War Cross 1939–1945 Medal of Aeronautics Charles never appointed his son a Companion of the Liberation, stating...
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    Jean-Loup Chrétien (category Recipients of the Aeronautical Medal)
    Salon-de-Provence and graduated in 1961, receiving a master's degree in aeronautical engineering. Member of the board of the "Académie de l'air et de l'espace"...
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    Raoul Salan (category Recipients of the Aeronautical Medal)
    Cross (South Vietnam), with palm National Defense Medal (Cambodia) Syria-Cilicia commemorative medal Order of Civil Merit of the Syrian Arab Republic Médaille...
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    Georges Catroux (category Recipients of the Aeronautical Medal)
    Georges Albert Julien Catroux (French pronunciation: [ʒɔʁʒ albɛʁ ʒyljɛ̃ katʁu]; 29 January 1877 – 21 December 1969) was a French Army general and diplomat...
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    Valérie André (category Recipients of the Aeronautical Medal)
    Valérie André (French pronunciation: [valeʁi ɑ̃dʁe] ; born 21 April 1922) is a veteran of the French Resistance, a neurosurgeon, an aviator and the first...
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    Marie Marvingt (category Recipients of the Aeronautical Medal)
    literary prize in 1948 and in 1949 from the Women's Aeronautical Association of Los Angeles Twenty gold medals in Winter Sports, 1908, 1909, 1910 BnF catalogue...
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    Steve Fossett (category Recipients of the Aeronautical Medal)
    all in his Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer. In 2002, he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Aero Club of the UK, and was inducted into the National Aviation...
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    Marie-Pierre Kœnig (category Recipients of the Aeronautical Medal)
    rosette Colonial Medal with clasps "Maroc", "Sahara", "Libye", "Bir-Hakeim", "Tunisie 43-43" Combatant's Cross Aeronautical Medal Escapees' Medal 1914–1918 Inter-Allied...
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  • Craig Dobbin (category Recipients of the Aeronautical Medal)
    Craig Lawrence Dobbin, OC (12 September 1935 – 7 October 2006) was an industrialist and chairman and chief executive officer of CHC Helicopter Corporation...
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  • resistance volunteer combatant Combatant's Cross Aeronautical Medal Overseas Medal National Defence Medal Medal for voluntary military service Defence and Internal...
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    Hélène Dutrieu (category Recipients of the Aeronautical Medal)
    Hélène Dutrieu (10 July 1877 – 26 June 1961), was a Belgian cycling world champion, stunt cyclist, stunt motorcyclist, automobile racer, stunt driver,...
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    Croix de Guerre was designed by the sculptor Paul-Albert Bartholomé. The medal is 37 millimetres (1.5 in) in size and is in the shape of a Maltese cross...
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    André Lanata (category Recipients of the Aeronautical Medal)
    Medal of the Nation's Gratitude Médaille commémorative française Kuwait Liberation Medal (Saudi Arabia) Kuwait Liberation Medal (Kuwait) NATO Medal with...
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    Stéphane Abrial (category Recipients of the Aeronautical Medal)
    Liberation Medal (Saudi Arabia) Kuwait Liberation Medal (Kuwait) Grand Officer of the Order of Aeronautical Merit (Brazil) Santos-Dumont Medal of Merit...
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    Pierre Clostermann (category Recipients of the Aeronautical Medal)
    Correio da Manhã. From 1938 to 1940, he took aeronautical engineering courses at the Ryan School of Aeronautics in San Diego, in the United States of America...
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  • Georges Bergé (category Recipients of the Aeronautical Medal)
    Guerre 1939-1945, 4 citations Cross of Military Valour, with palm Aeronautics Medal Foreign Officer of the Order of the British Empire Military Cross...
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    Édouard Guillaud (category Recipients of the Aeronautical Medal)
    Amiral Édouard Guillaud (born 10 July 1953) is a retired French Naval Officer and Admiral. He devoted a significant part of his career to the design of...
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    René Joyeuse (category Recipients of the Aeronautical Medal)
    des Évadés, the Médaille de l'Aéronautique, the Colonial Medal and several commemorative medals. The Kingdom of Laos awarded him the Order of the Million...
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    compiling their medal tables. From 1924 through 1936, the IOC on several occasions awarded gold medals for feats of alpinism and aeronautics that occurred...
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    Michael and St George (1917, United Kingdom) Aeronautical Medal (1952, Santos Dumont promotion) Commemorative medal for voluntary service in Free France (1946)...
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    Patrick Baudry (category Recipients of the Aeronautical Medal)
    during the Second World War and his family was rewarded the Resistance Medal for their courage and effort during the war. Prytanée National Militaire...
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     France Established 19 December 1926 Ribbon of the Combatant's Cross Precedence Next (higher) Aeronautical Medal Next (lower) Medal of French Gratitude...
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  • The Medal of Aeronautic Valor (Italian: Medaglia al valore aeronautico) is an Italian medal awarded "for acts and enterprises of singular courage and...
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