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: 00 Photographer : Jean-Michel Lefebvre © Date : 1980 & 1981 Size : 13x18 paper flat-scanned Caption : Here, the then first and sole Alizé "modernized" received by Flotille 6F for which I get a special flight on May 6, 1981. |
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Flotille 4F Place : NAS Nîmes-Garons and Clemenceau carrier Country
: France |
Editorial
Prototype issue N°1 of 11 September 2000
This first issue devoted to the to-day September 26, 2000
official withdrawal from French Aéronavale of the embarked
anti-sub/maritime reconnaissance Bréguet Alizé is dedicated to
my then Flotille 6F pilot, Gérard Basset, who became later my
mentor during five days aboard the Clémenceau carrier and a
marvelous chap who, halas, a few months later died in a crash in
the vicinity of the town of Cahors in South-West France when
doing a low altitude land navigation formation flight with a
young pilot.
He was victim, it was the first time in French Navy, of his
Rolls-Royce Dart turboprop which cut-off...
Low, he landed quite correctly, landing-gear up, in a field in
front of the aircraft but the following field was more than 15
meters lower and, at a quite slow speed, the nose of Alizé
vertically downed to earth for crash. The aircraft immediately
caught fire and a farmer had time to extract the badly injured
rear radar-operator.
It is not a week where I think to Gérard and his chaps and this
will continue after the Alizés have gone.
JMJ Lefebvre