• Groupe Latécoère (French: [ɡʁup latekɔɛʁ]) is an aircraft company based in Toulouse, France. Founded by the aeronautics pioneer Pierre-Georges Latécoère during...
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    Pierre-Georges Latécoère (French: [pjɛʁ ʒɔʁʒ latekɔɛʁ]; 1883–1943) was a pioneer of aeronautics. Born in Bagnères-de-Bigorre, he studied in the École Centrale...
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    The Latécoère 631 was a civil transatlantic flying boat built by Latécoère, the largest ever built up to its time. The type was not a success, being unreliable...
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    The Latécoère 521 was a French six-engined double deck flying boat designed and manufactured by Pierre-Georges Latécoère. At the time of its completion...
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    des lignes Latécoère, also known as Lignes aeriennes Latécoère or simply "The Line" (La ligne). Aéropostale founder Pierre-Georges Latécoère envisioned...
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  • War I with six aerial victories. He joined the Pierre-Georges Latécoère's Lignes Aériennes Latécoère company (later to become Aéropostale) in 1923, rubbing...
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  • Lefschetz (1905), American mathematician Pierre-Georges Latécoère (1906), aeronautics pioneer, founder of Latécoère and Aéropostale (later Air France) Marcel...
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    "Curriculum Vitae Louis Delrieu" De Latécoère à l'Aéropostale (in French). FOUNDATION PIERRE-GEORGES LATÉCOÈRE (s.f.). Archived from the original on...
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    load and could not maintain flight on a single engine. Initially, Pierre-Georges Latécoère intended to use the aircraft to extend the airline's route from...
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    of 1,900 km (1,200 mi) in 11 hours 15 minutes. Aviation pioneer Pierre-Georges Latécoère converted one example to conduct experimental in-flight refuelling...
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    Pierre-Georges Latécoère, created the "Compagnie Générale d'Entreprise Aéronautique" and in May 1922, the "Société Industrielle des Avions Latécoère"...
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    French industrialist Pierre-Georges Latécoère, who envisioned an air route connecting France to its French colonies in Africa. Latécoère firmly believed in...
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    as well as the pilot. Immediately after the end of World War I, Pierre-Georges Latécoère began his career in aviation by building limousine versions of...
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    in Bagnères-de-Bigorre Pierre-Georges Latécoère (1883–1943): Industrialist and businessman, born in Bagnères-de-Bigorre Pierre Lamy de la Chapelle (Limoges...
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    in 1917 by Pierre-Georges Latécoère, it became a centre for civil aviation and the aeronautics industry. In 1918 "Lignes Aériennes Latécoère" was created...
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    Vanier was hired as a pilot for the newly developing airline of Pierre-Georges Latécoère, Aéropostale, which was based in Toulouse. He became its station...
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    Joseph Le Brix 1927 - Charles Lindbergh 1923 - Louis Bréguet, Pierre-Georges Latécoère, Dieudonné Costes 1922 - Clément Ader 1920 - Joseph Sadi-Lecointe...
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    Director of the Muslim College of Rabat. 1922 Pierre-Georges Latécoère: airline operations manager Latécoère. 1926 Louis Jean Martin: Inspector General of...
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    and TUI fly Nordic), but only in the winter. In 1919, Frenchman Pierre George Latécoère was granted clearance from the French and Spanish governments to...
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    Aéropostale pilots. In 1935, he received his first flight on the seaplane Latécoère 521 "Lieutenant de Vaisseau Paris" on the Lac de Biscarrosse in South...
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    Salmson, a manufacturer of water pumps, was engaged by Georges Marius Henri-Georges Canton and Pierre Unné, a pair of Swiss engineers, to produce engines...
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    Hanriot HD.14 E.2 Hanriot HD.17 E.2 Hanriot H.41 Junkers Ju 188 Latécoère 290 Latécoère 298 Latham 43 HB.3 Levasseur PL.4 R3b Levasseur PL.5 C2b Levasseur...
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    develop air routes through the Middle East. On 25 December 1918, the Latécoère Airlines (later becoming the famed Aéropostale) became the first civilian...
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    from enemy attacks) chemical industries as well as aviation workshops (Latécoère, Dewoitine), which launched the city's aeronautical construction tradition...
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  • earliest known airliner hijacking. August 1 – Air France Flight 072, a Latécoère 631, disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of all 52 people...
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    174 Bloch MB.200 Breguet Bre.693 & 695 Douglas DB-7 B.3 Farman F.222 Latécoère 298 Farman NC.223 Lioré-et-Olivier LeO 45 Lioré et Olivier LeO H-257bis...
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  • from the original on 28 August 2017. Retrieved 15 July 2017. Broue, Pierre. "Pierre Broué: Five Years On (1997)". marxists.org. Retrieved 18 August 2017...
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    (introduced 29 October 1996, replacing Montesquieu) 500 francs (€76.22): Pierre and Marie Curie — green (introduced 22 March 1995, replacing Blaise Pascal)...
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    shot down, Georges Guynemer, who was killed after 54 victories, Charles Nungesser, who achieved 43 victories and survived the war, and Georges Madon who...
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