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Photographe: Jean-Michel Lefebvre ©
Date: June
4, 1972
Format: 135 B&W negatives
Sujet: Meeting National de Beauvais
Lieu: Beauvais Airport
Pays: France
Caption:
Apart the Alouette-Astazou helicopter fitted with anti-tank
missiles SS-11 and belonging to ALAT (Army Light Aviation), the
aircraft near the Beauvais civil airport TWR are the two main
types of materials used by the Armée de l'Air COTAM (Air
Transport Command): Transall of 61st Transport Wing and Noratlas
of 63rd TW. Alouette IIIs of AdlA were used by Helicopter Wings
ET 67 and 68 for communications and SAR duties in Alps and to the
benefit of sea shores during Summer vacations but mainly for
tactical uses as observation and target searching.
EDITORIAL
Already half a
dozen of API is now issued and this was not easy for reasons due
to negs conditions as you know. Some of you asked why I had not
organized the issues with all pictures of each type grouped by
type and manufacturers, this about the Cannes Air Show.
The reason is quite simple to understand: API is the published
catalog under form of compressed and copyright stamped pictures
from numerised good quality BMP scans of the ten thousands negs
and slides I have made in the past and they appear, with a few
exceptions, at the exact place where they are on film strips,
these latter (except for various Paris Air Show where the number
of shots was enough considerable and repetitive each day that I'm
unable to tell: this was made the second or sixth day...) coming
from the right place at the right time in the yearly sequence of
my reports and other opportunities of aircraft pictures. All my
shots, good or not, are scanned in BMP mode to exactly follow the
classification of my negs archives and you can see in this
Pictorial almost all the pictures, even a number I consider as
limit by quality but interesting by the subject. Example given:
with Beauvais, due to a storm, considerable loss of light added
to processing mistake by the Labo!!!, I had to discard for API
publication many interesting pictures, notably taxi in front of
me !!! and flight shots of the rare Breguet 941 STOL transport.
I also have an important number of historical materials directly
photographed from genuine pictures found in manufacturers
archives, even blue prints, various French Official Archives,
Squadron Pictorial Diaries, WWI and WWII fighter pilots archives...and
other in french tons of original materials all meriting to be
flat scanned...
Years being not infinite, for the moment I build my numeric
archives of B&W negs concerning aircraft of the seventies and
early eighties. When I get my colour materials, the pictures are
almost the same than the B&W ones, I will add, when
concerning some Wings I have studied, plenty of black and white
aircraft pictures of their constituting flights and squadrons
aircraft from WWI Nieuports to the before last type used before
study and passing by interwar Nieuport Delage, Dewoitine 500 and
others, wartime Morane 406, Dewoitine 520, Bloch 151-152, Curtiss
H-75 types, next post war US piston and jet engined materials and
naturally all French equivalents from 1945 to the sixties.
Possibly also, some special issues with B&W pictures having
been used to illustrate monographs I have made of German rarities
as Bv 141, Arado 240, He 162...and a very interesting lot of cuts
from German News or Luftwaffe movies I have to work in the film
scanner...
Jean-Michel J Lefebvre
