How low, what is it and whose?

Gods teeth, that thing is Fugly! Did the french design any good looking aircraft….. ever? That thing would look at home on a Skegness caravan park…

I can´t fault the lines of a Mirage lll….or a Super Mystere….or a Fouga Magister……or a Potez 630…..or a SPAD…..or a Bugatti Model 100…or a…..nevermind!

Only joking, I know the only really beautiful planes are the good old British Spitfire, Mosquito, Meteor, and of course the Gannet, the Vickers Vernon, the Blackburn Skua. Amongst several.

Regards Jon

no more deux ponts at papeete or around. all broken. last interesting planes were the Short (F OBIP) now at paris le bourget (MAE) to be repared, the two or three catalinas now existing in chili (chile?), the lancaster at paris (ailes anciennes).

concerning the “look” of the breguet deux ponts, I do think it is so ugly compare to a beverley etc.

we have done in france very nice planes, but I must agree the spit is the nicest in europe.
YP

F-BASS is wrongly painted up as F-BACC. It is a genuine ex-Air France civil Deux Ponts – the fleet was transferred to the Armee de l’Air after AF finished using them.

It’s been restored as a restaurant, serves an excellent steack frites!

The lower deck is a bar.

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Breguet_763_Fontenay.jpg

Phone ghere for resevrvatins:

http://aero.chaubuisson.free.fr/Breguet.htm

I suspect the aircraft in the doctored inmage is a prototype – which would make it a Br 761.

I’ve heard rumours that others still exist in the south Pacific – they were used as part of the French nuclear testing programme and were simply left there when that finished – possibly at Papeete.

I’m thinking they had a fuselage designer and a wing/tailplane designer.

The problem is they never swapped drawings and nobody realised what the finished product was going to look like until they rolled it out (to gasps of “Merde!”)

Moggy

It’s clear that you haven’t read the other threads where that very question has been posed before and answered!

Gods teeth, that thing is Fugly! Did the french design any good looking aircraft….. ever? That thing would look at home on a Skegness caravan park…

I was so pre-occupied with looking at the aircraft that I didn’t even notice the swimming pool. Maybe it’s time for new glasses!

……….and the swimming pool!

Bit surprised about the picture posting successfully as I did exactly the same as I did when trying to post pictures of G-APOD.
Thanks for the link and surprisingly it actually looks like it has had at least some TLC since my visit. – looks like those plastic chairs have been breeding as well!

Well done, WJ244. It seems as if you have cracked it on the image posting front. If you go to http://www.linternaute.com/sortir/sorties/resto/dossier/06/restos-insolites/05.shtml# you will find a more recent image of the same Breguet.

ha ha, i had a ropey start trying to start my post!!!.
its a very big beast with a certain grace around it large size. im surprized that the pic i posted is so well known. they did a pretty good job faking it if they did as the angle of light/shadows are pretty much bob on. the pilot sits so high up and the big belly is miles away from his backside. even the prop ground clearance is above the belly line.
after seeing some of the low flying pics on this forum i cant see why this would be a fake?

82-PP (at Fontenay-Trésigny).

This was 82-PP 25 years ago almost to the day. This was going to be one of the highlights of a trip to France but I was a disappointed when I finally got to see her and I am a bit surprised that she is still around.

I am tempting fate a bit after the problems I had posting pictures last time but hopefully this one is OK.

To a teenage planespotter in the 1960s it was a Duck Pond!

Only ever saw one once, lumbering into Heathrow. But it was the kind of plane that once seen, would never be forgotten.

On my early morning cycle into LHR in the late 60’s the Duck Pond would be clattering its way off to Paris on a parcel/mail/newspaper run, so I didnt get a good look at one until one blew an engine and had been towed into a BEA hangar for some remedial work.
I vividly recall the huge amount of black oil dripping over the nice clean hangar floor, and that was from the good engines, the dead one, and anything near it was plastered in the stuff.
It was obviousl that the airframe had seen a lot of use and abuse over the years as the fuselage skin surrounding the freight doors was a mass of rivetted patches, some with patches on patches.
It made a big impression on me too.

Richard

I seem to remember that photo being captioned as something like….

“Why can’t the Doc just give us castor oil like they do in the Army?”

Or something like that – maybe it was in Straight and Level ???

Ken

To a teenage planespotter in the 1960s it was a Duck Pond!

Only ever saw one once, lumbering into Heathrow. But it was the kind of plane that once seen, would never be forgotten.

Only three, I think, which are 64-PE (at Evreux), 64-PH (at Toulouse) and 82-PP (at Fontenay-Trésigny). Sadly none appear in civilian guise although the latter is ex Air France F-BASS.

Any still around?

I have seen the picture many times and I agree that it is probably a triumph of photo manipulation. Great aeroplane though. I recall many many years ago that I caught sight of something lumbering into St.Mawgan and I’m sure it was a Sahara, but I never got a chance to check. Wish I’d got a closer look, it’s a magnificent brute.

Normally I would agree with that sentiment Moggy, but I think in this case the large Breguet is actually quite good looking and well streamlined, compare it with our Bev!

Bound to be some Froggie outfit I’d guess. Nobody else would fly an aircraft that ugly.

Legion d-Etrangers?

Moggy