Le ciel est à elles

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Documentary (March 2021)

Starring:
Suliane Brahim (speakerin)

How three of the most famous first French women (Adrienne Bolland, Marie-Louise Bombec (knwon as Maryse Bastié) and Hélène Boucher) were determined to become a pilot. In which did they share the same goal despite three lifes and fates very different ? First, Adrienne who got female pilot licence "12 bis" and was the first woman to fly over the Andes between Chile and Argentina the first of April, 1921 ...

Unidentified Rotary Engine

A seven-cylinder rotary engine on test.

Passing test at the end of the assembly line.

Avro 616 Avian IVM

Reg. G-ABIE Avro 616 Avian IVM c/n 491 of Hélène Boucher.

Caudron C.51

Reg. F-AIBL Caudron C-51 c/n 46.

Seen again at 19'47.

Handley Page H.P.45

(right background) Reg. G-AAXC Heracles c/n 42/5 or G-AAXD Horatius ? Both are of Imperial Airways and already seen on IMPDB ...

Unidentified Nieuport

Caudron Type A

Caudron Type C

Breguet 14

Caudron G.3

Morane-Saulnier G

Unidentified Aircraft

Maurice Farman MF.11 ?

Élisa Léontine Deroche (usual : Baroness Raymonde de Laroche after her meeting with Tsar Nicholas II) at the controls of a Maurice Farman MF.11.
She became the world's first licensed female pilot on 8 March 1910. Dead on 18 July 1919 in a air accident when she was a passenger.

Unidentified Push Aircraft

Caudron G.3

Reg. F-AFDC Caudron G.3 c/n 2551 seen again at 6'10.

Another one seen at 5'31.

Adrienne Bolland.

Reg. F-A?F? ... (maybe F-ABFY)

Nieuport 21

Farman MF.11

Filmed from a Maurice Farman MF.7 (or a close derivative), a French Aéronautique militaire airfield with several Maurice Farman MF.11.

... and some Nieuport (?) fighter/trainer.

Unidentified Aircraft

Fokker Eindecker or Morane-Saulnier G (or H ?) ?

Maurice Farman MF.7

Former shot showing a flock of sheep was filmed from such aircraft.

Astra-Torès & Breguet 14

Non-rigid Astra-Torres airship seen during an air show at Buc Aviation / Aéroparc Louis Blériot, Buc (near Versailles, so at 20 km south-west of Paris, France). Maybe the Aéronautique Navale (French Naval Aviation) Astra-Torès AT-19 on 10 October 1920 at the private Blériot airfield.

Nieuport 17 & Breguet 14

Shot at Buc Aviation / Aéroparc Louis Blériot. The fate of this airfield was close to the Blériot-Aéronautique company which came to an end in the mid-1930s. Used by the Luftwaffe during the German military administration in occupied France during World War II, the airfield was the base of some troop carrier squadron of the USAAF in 1945. Then, too close to more active air base, it was limited to non public traffic (helicopter trials [end of 1940s] and ALAT base [until mid 1960s]) before final closure. This is now a public park.

The main building (erased before WW2).

Blériot Bl-75 & Blériot XI-2

The only four engine Blériot Bl-75 airliner behind a type XI-2 (with PEGOUD ? written on the under surface).

Nieuport-Delage Ni-D 29V

One of the three lightweight racer developed in 1919 with a wingspan reduced to 6 meters, powered by a 240 kW (320 hp) Hispano-Suiza 8Fb engine.

Caudron G.3

Breguet 14T

Despite captioned "Le p'tit Caudron de la Victoire" (the small Caudron of the Victory), this drawing is about a Breguet 14 with a front close passenger place.

Unidentified Aircraft

Unidentified Latécoère Aircraft

Reg. F-AJ??

Louis Bastié, the husband of Maryse, a former WWI pilot who lost life in an air accident just some years after their wedding.

Nieuport-Delage Ni-D 29

René Fonck in front of a Nieuport-Delage Ni-D 29

?

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? near a Nieuport X.B

Martin NBS-1

(to be continued)

Various Aircraft

24-30 December 1908 : 1er salon international de l'Aéronautique.
The white airship is over the Clément-Bayard exposition in front of a black Continental/Hutchinson (Astra in France) balloon. In the background, the other airship is over the Renault expoisition.

First ‘Exposition Internationale de la Locomotion Aérienne’ (Salon de l’Aviation), Grand Palais, Paris, 25 September - 17 October 1909.
1 - Farman Biplane
2 - Antoinette
3 - Blériot XI
4 - scale down replica of Montgolfière Le Réveillon

Instructional Airframe

Nieuport ?

Farman F.60 Goliath

Caudron G.3

On 19 January 1919 Jules Védrines succeeded in landing a Caudron G.3 on the 28 metres (92 ft) by 12 metres (39 ft) roof of the Galeries Lafayette department store in Paris.

Caudron C.109

Reg. F-AHFE Caudron C-109 first of 14 built. Advertising of Maryse Bastié given her first flight to Miss Paris.

Aircraft seen again at 23'18.

Caudron C.27

Reg. F-AGAP Caudron C-27 c/n 7 owned by Adrienne Bolland who set a women's record in it when she completed 212 consecutive loops.

Blériot Bl-105

Unidentified airplane in the background (between the hats).

Dewoitine D.1 Ter

Reg. F-AHAZ Dewoitine D.1 Ter c/n 111.
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing).

F-AHAZ between two French roundels (not O letter).

Caudron C-127

Reg. F-AGAP Caudron C-127 c/n 7.

Caudron C-60

Reg. F-AGAH Caudron C-60 c/n 5537.22.

Morane-Saulier M.S.51 (or 53 ?)

Caudron G.3

Adrienne Bolland in front of Caudron G.3 registered F-TAMB. The blurred background aircraft is unidentified.

Unidentified Aircraft

Morane-Saulnier MS.406

Potez 390

Production line of Potez 390 (or a derivative airframe : Potez 39 or Potez 43).

Breguet 14

François Coli who was the navigator of Charles Nungesser in their unsuccessfull trial to cross the Atlantic ocean, few days before Lindbergh's one.
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Levasseur PL 8-01 L'Oiseau Blanc

Levasseur PL.8 biplane in the morning of 8 May 1927, during the attempt to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight between Paris and New York.

Same footage seen in other movies - IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing).

Takeoff from Le Bourget at 05:21.

(to be continued)

Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing).

Frequently Seen Locations.

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