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Aviation History
1954
1954 - 2008.PDF
In putting Great Britain on the map at Valenciennes the Meteor aerobatic flight of No. 64 Squadron were unintentionally on the map themselves— a marvellous cloud-map of the U.K. (and the tip of France) as our picture shows. The manner of the flight's break-up is illustrated below. Meeting National de l'Air Illustrated by "FLIGHT" SO fair stood the wind, for France early on the morning of Sunday, June 27th, that our glossy new George-Able-King-How-Charlie sped us from dear old Croydon to Valenciennes-Denain in one hour five. The Jimminy (as the controller was pleased to address that vehicle) having been turned out to grass, we stood ourselves a breakfast of beer and sandwiches and settled in to enjoy one of this year's series of Meetings Nationaux de l'Air. A pre-meeting" (genuine French, this—vide programme) was arranged before lunch for the diversion of the early-comers and as a try-out for the big show, which came on in the afternoon. The arrival of the cortege officiel, on the dot of two- thirty, was duly observed with martial and musical honours; but a moody wind frustrated a stick tricolore of parachutists from the school at Pau. Monique Caillard, a Government flying instructress, thereupon proceeded to put her specially modified Stampe single-seater through a succession of elegant, intricate and varied manoeuvres, and M. Vinsonneau, in a Nord 2000 glider, severed all connections with a Salm- son-engined Storch tug and rolled, looped and slid inverted down the sky with the greatest of ease and adroitness. Our good friend Jacques Noetinger, on the Potez 75 anti tank missile-platform, showed that he is as proficient a demonstration pilot as he is at publicizing French aircraft, or at writing articles and books, or drawing clever little sketches, or handling press-men or flying a Reserve-squadron Thunderbolt at week-ends, or controlling a meeting, or
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