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    space force of the French Armed Forces. Formed in 1909 as the Service Aéronautique, a service arm of the French Army, it became an independent military...
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    by medicine. An aviation pioneer, he was vice-president of the Ligue Aéronautique de France and a proponent of the development of aviation in France. During...
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    ex-Soviet aircraft.  France Aéronautique Militaire – A total of 72 Escadrilles equipped either wholly or partly. Aéronautique Navale  Greece Hellenic Navy...
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  • Société Latham (category Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1916)
    Caudebec-en-Caux until a 1951 restructuring of the Latham, Bréguet and Potez companies, in which it was renamed REVIMA (Révision de Matériel Aéronautique) and...
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    in the newly founded École Nationale Supérieure d'Ingénieurs en Construction Aéronautique (now the École Nationale Supérieure de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace...
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    par Paul Cartoux, L'Intransigeant from 1919/08/08, p.1, column 6. « Aéronautique : l'inutile exploit du sergent Godefroy » Archived 28 October 2020 at...
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    the British Caudron company. The G.4 entered service with the French Aéronautique Militaire in November 1915. It was the first twin-engine aircraft in...
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    performance for the time, and entered service with the French Aéronautique Militaire during August 1916. By early 1917, however, the S.VII had been surpassed...
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    1916 January February March April May June July August September October November December The following events occurred in March 1916: Germany began to...
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    Le-Puy-en-Velay Airport. In 2002, the airport handled a record 1,090,417 passengers making it one of the busiest airports in France. In 1916 the first...
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    Battle of Verdun (category Battles in 1916)
    heavy guns and howitzers and 80 super-heavy guns and howitzers. The Aéronautique Militaire crowded 16 escadrilles de chasse into the area to escort reconnaissance...
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    Nieuport 17 (category Aircraft first flown in 1916)
    and into 1917, the Nieuport 17 equipped every fighter squadron of the Aéronautique Militaire. Almost all of the top French aces flew the nimble Nieuport...
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    winter of 1916–1917 on the Western Front in France during the First World War. The line ran from Arras to Laffaux, near Soissons on the Aisne. In 1916, the...
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     Belgium Aviation Militaire Belge Escadrille 3 Escadrille 6  France Aéronautique Militaire Army Co-operation units Escadrille V.14 Escadrille V.21 Escadrille...
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    Commonwealth War Graves Commission "Memorial". Aérostèles, lieux de mémoire aéronautique. Retrieved 8 July 2016. "No. 34867". The London Gazette (Supplement)...
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    Lafayette Escadrille (category Military units and formations established in 1916)
    N 124 during the First World War (1914–1918). This escadrille of the Aéronautique Militaire was composed largely of American volunteer pilots flying fighters...
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    Victor Chapman (category 1916 deaths)
    opportunity to fly in a fighter airplane. Chapman requested a transfer to the Aéronautique Militaire, the army's air arm. He attended flight school and was certified...
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  • equipped the 1,123 Voisin VIII bombers and cannon fighters used by the Aéronautique Militaire. Additionally, Peugeot were one of the major license producers...
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    Breguet 14 (category Aircraft first flown in 1916)
    aircraft. In June 1916, he began a new design for a military two-seater, the Breguet AV. The French Army's Section Technique de l' Aéronautique (STAé) recommended...
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    was repeated in 1903 under the same conditions. In January 1906, the Aéronautique Club de France (ACDF), founded in October 1897, instituted a women's...
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    Letord Let.5 (category Aircraft first flown in 1916)
    d'Aéronautique). In early 1916 the contemporary reconnaissance aircraft of the Aéronautique Militaire, such as the Caudron G.6, Morane-Saulnier T and Salmson-Moineau...
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  • Aviation portal This is a list of aviation-related events from 1916: Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft simulate night torpedo attacks for the first time...
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    ace credited with twelve aerial victories while flying in the French Aeronautique Militaire. Having originally volunteered for the Ambulance Corps, Baylies...
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    SPAD S.VII (category Aircraft first flown in 1916)
    Finnish Air Force - Postwar, one aircraft  France Aéronautique Militaire Lafayette Escadrille Aéronautique Navale  Greece Hellenic Air Force - Postwar  Kingdom...
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    ground defence. The airfield was created for the French Aeronautique Militaire in early 1916, on military grounds. On 18 April, the "Escadrille américaine"...
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    Avions Amiot (category History of Cherbourg-en-Cotentin)
    Amiot was a former French aircraft manufacturer. The company was formed in 1916 by Félix Amiot as the Society of Mechanical Drawing and Construction (SECM)...
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    French Air Force (Aéronautique Militaire) as a pilot. Meanwhile, Lufbery joined the Foreign Legion and later transferred into the Aéronautique Militaire as...
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    United States to be issued a pilot's license (#6017) by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI). Throughout the early 1920s, following a disastrous...
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    2020. Retrieved 29 August 2020. "Los restos del Gigante de Altzo no están en su tumba". noticiasdenavarra.com. 16 August 2020. Retrieved 29 August 2020...
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  • 8 April 2015. "Revue de la Société Générale Aéronautique" (PDF). Revue de la Société Générale Aéronautique (in French). Argenteuil: SGA. August 1930. Archived...
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