The Super Mystère Aircraft Collection

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Over the immensity of the Lann-Bihoué NAS, 25F parking is neighbouring with the one of the Atalntic equipped 24F Flotille which was the first to exchange its P2V-7s against 8 aircraft from Bréguet for the same roles including SAR missions. NAS sector where housed 25F Neptunes and also Atlantics of Flotilles 23&24F was named " The Poullo ", a geographic name. The controller e.g. told " Neptune Yankee Delta, clear for runway twenty-six, you call when leaving The Poullo ". I never heard such an equivalent in the military aeronautical phraseology... Sailors who fly ( or not ) never do the same as other people under military conditions ... About French Navy, people easily say: " La Royale ", this because officers very often are coming from ancesters who fought in the Navy during the French Royalty and traditions they established were kept as close as possible by their descendants...

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