Documentary (1951)
Starring:
Service Cinématographique des Armées (Narrator)
Recovery of French aviation 6 years after the 2nd World War.
Lockheed C-60A Lodestar[]
Same footage seen in other movies - IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
Dassault MD.312 Flamant[]
Same footage seen in other movies - IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
Same footage seen in other movies - IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
SNCASO SO.30C Bretagne[]
Registration F-WAYN, c/n 01.
Competitor with Breguet 891R Mars and Nord 2500 Noratlas as transport aircraft for the Armée de l’Air. The aircraft will have a civil purpose development as SO.30P Provence. First flight on January 1950.
SNCASO SO.30C & Caudron C.445/3 Goéland[]
On the left, a Caudron C.445/3.
Amiot AAC 1 Toucan[]
In the background on the left, French built Ju 52 named Amiot AAC1 Toucan.
Hurel-Dubois HD.10[]
Single prototype first flew on August 1948.
Registration F-WFAN, c/n 01.
Heinkel He 274 / A.A.S. 01A[]
First of the two He 274 built in France and achieved post war by the Ateliers Aéronautiques de Suresnes (ex Farman Aviation Works). Maiden flight in December 1945. The aircraft was used as SNCASO SO-M1 ½ scale model carrier.
SNCASO SO.M1[]
Registration F-WFDJ, c/n 01.
Half scale model prototype for the SO.4000 bomber project. Unpowered version flying test from the He 274 / A.A.S. 01.
SNCASO SO.M2[]
Registration F-WFDK, c/n 01.
Development of SO.M1 powered with Rolls-Royce Derwent V jet engine. First flight on April 1949.
SNCASO SO.6020-02 Espadon[]
Registration F-WFDV, one of the two prototypes built seen here after a huge work to replace the ventral air intake by two lateral scoops.
Douglas Dakota IV[]
Registration KJ994.
Fouga CM.100 & Breguet 892S Mercure[]
Powered conversion of Fouga CM.10 glider. Only one prototype built.
Registration F-WFAV, c/n 01.
In the background, prototype of the Breguet 892S Mercure, 4 engine variant of the 890. Only one built.
Registration F-WFDD.
Morane-Saulnier MS.475 Vanneau & SNCAN Nord 1222 Norélan[]
SNCAN Nord 1222, with MS.475 Vanneau on the left. The aircraft in far background is the SNCASO SO-30 listed above.
Breguet 891R Mars[]
Prototype made as military variant of the civil Breguet 890H, only one aircraft produced for evaluation by the Armée de l’Air which finally validated the competitor Nord 2501 Noratlas.
Nord 2500 Noratlas[]
Registration F-WFKL, c/n 01. Prototype, first flight on September 1949.
SNCASO SO.6020 Espadon[]
Registration F-WFDI, c/n 01.
First flight on November 1948.
SNCAN Nord 2200[]
Registration F-WFRD, c/n 01.
Prototype of a fighter intended for the Aéronautique Navale (French Fleet Air Arm). First flight on December 1949.
Morane-Saulnier MS-500 Criquet[]
SNCASE SE.3000[]
Registration F-WFDR, c/n 01.
Development of the German Focke-Achgelis Fa 223 Drache. First flight on October 1948. Only three aircrafts built.
SNCASE SE.161 Languedoc[]
Registration F-BATF, c/n 6.
Carrying Leduc 0.10 for test flights.
Same aircraft seen in other movies - IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
Leduc 0.10[]
Research aircraft powered by a ramjet. Three prototypes built, first flight on October 1947 from a SNCASE SE.161 Languedoc.
Same aircraft seen in other movies - IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
SNCASO SO.6000N Triton[]
Registration F-WFDH, c/n 04.
Same aircraft seen in other movies - IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
Dassault MD.450 Ouragan Prototypes[]
Same footage seen in other movies - IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
SNCASE Sud Est SE.2010 Armagnac[]
Archive of prototype F-WAVA also seen in other movies - IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
Lockheed P-80A Shooting Star[]
De Havilland DH100 Vampire FB.53[]
Same aircraft seen in other movies - IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
SNCASE SE.535 Mistral[]
Same footage seen in other movies - IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
SNCAN SV.4C[]
Same aircraft seen in other movies - IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
Same aircraft seen in other movies - IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
Same aircraft seen in other movies - IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
SIPA S.111[]
Curtiss H-75 A Hawk[]
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