Dassault Flamant

I had a look under Chambre de Commerce since many airfields are run by the local CC.

Here’s a bit about the Tour de France ULM 2008 using Niort as a destination. It mentions one Stephane Sylvain as being ‘responsable de l’aerodrome’ and a phone number for information: 06 1659 2302. If anyone knows, then he should!

http://www.vivre-a-niort.com/fileadmin/fichiers/VAN/187/van187_ULM.pdf

Hope this helps.
cheers
atb

Many thanks for the suggestion and contact details. I’ll give the man a call and hope that he can tell me more than has been the case with the others, on site, to whom I have spoken. So watch this space!

p.s. Niort was actually the start and finish airfield for last year’s ULM tour!

1981 according to wikipedia.

There were still 2 Flamants at La Ferte in November. One dismantled behind a screen and one looking complete. Unfortunately, I don’t record reggies anymore so can’t help with identification.

Hei,

Perhaps a bit off-topic, but when was the Flamant retired from the France airforce?

Regards,

Mathieu.

I’m sure there was another Flammant (besides the one on the field) in pieces hidden behind screens in the hangar at La Ferte Alais last July.

John

I had a look under Chambre de Commerce since many airfields are run by the local CC.

Here’s a bit about the Tour de France ULM 2008 using Niort as a destination. It mentions one Stephane Sylvain as being ‘responsable de l’aerodrome’ and a phone number for information: 06 1659 2302. If anyone knows, then he should!

http://www.vivre-a-niort.com/fileadmin/fichiers/VAN/187/van187_ULM.pdf

Hope this helps.
cheers
atb

…and the people at the aeroport can’t help? It would have been quite a major operation to move her (t: 0549240289)

Bonne Annee!

Alan

Not quite that simple. Since the département withdrew ATC facilities from Niort Souché a few years ago, there is no “official” presence on the airfield. I’ve enquired of the representatives of the aéroclubs there but no-one seems to be able to tell me more than that “il est parti”. They know that the Flamant left but no-one seems to know to where and for what reason.

…and the people at the aeroport can’t help? It would have been quite a major operation to move her (t: 0549240289)

Bonne Annee!

Alan

….and here’s Nº 240 – or at least the major components of her – at Niort in September 2007. I still haven’t discovered where she went after I last saw her there in February of this year!

I have just found a photo of 240 I took at Toussus on 27 Fev 1987. It was the day before the start of the Paris-Pekin race. The weather was…er…seasonal.

brgds
Alan

Just found this one `resting` in the mountains………

http://www.artificialowl.net/2008/10/tired-plane-on-display-town-of.html

I bought the engine from a person in the Netherlands who bought 10 engines somewere in France in the beginning of the eighties. So it is possible that it was in Niort Souché. My engine was overhauled in 1977 and after that put in storage and never used again.

I don’t think that yours can be from the Niort Flamant, for its engines were there until February of this year. Thus the search continues…………….!

Hei,

Thanks for the explanation of fora, every day I learn something.

@Fouga, I’ll try these forums, thanks.

Avion Ancien wrote:

I don’t suppose that the Flamant engine that you have in your workshop is one of those that were stored in the main hangar at Niort Souché. It’s a long way from there to the Netherlands!

I bought the engine from a person in the Netherlands who bought 10 engines somewere in France in the beginning of the eighties. So it is possible that it was in Niort Souché. My engine was overhauled in 1977 and after that put in storage and never used again. Unfortunately Idon’t have the logbook of the engine.
Attached a photo of the engine in my workshop.

regards,

Mathieu.

Perhaps you should have a try here :
http://http://www.aerostories.org/~aeroforums/forumhist/

“although in these days of linguistic dumning down and the widespread failure to teach or comprehend English language and grammar”

Not to mention spelling!

………….and proof reading! But point taken. See correction made.

“although in these days of linguistic dumning down and the widespread failure to teach or comprehend English language and grammar”

Not to mention spelling!

http://www.tarmacs.net/forum/
http://www.deltareflex.com/phpBB2/

Hei,

You write about “fora” and understand that that is a france aviation forum.
And about the flamant, I have a complete engine of a flamant in my workshop!

regards,

Mathieu.

Sorry, Mathieu, it’s all down to the idiosyncrasies of the English language. Because forum is a latin word which has entered the English language, its true plural is fora (although in these days of linguistic dumbing down and the widespread failure to teach or comprehend English language and grammar, I suspect that nine out of ten users of the language would talk of forums). That being said, I’ll go into my bookmarks and extract details of the French aviation fora that I have come across and send you a PM with details of these.

I don’t suppose that the Flamant engine that you have in your workshop is one of those that were stored in the main hangar at Niort Souché. It’s a long way from there to the Netherlands!

Hei,

You write about “fora” and understand that that is a france aviation forum.
And about the flamant, I have a complete engine of a flamant in my workshop!

regards,

Mathieu.

Hei,

Does one of you have a url of this forum?
I tried with google but could not find it,
Thanks in advance

Best regads,

Mathieu.

About which forum are you talking, Mathieu? Presumably not this Key Publishing forum for you must know its url by virtue of posting on it!

Hei,

Does one of you have a url of this forum?
I tried with google but could not find it,
Thanks in advance

Best regads,

Mathieu.