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| Posted by: Iamandi June 01, 2005 05:48 am |
| In the last issue of Modelsim International is presented Bearn, the french carrier. I didn't obtain succes in finding only a good site on the net with the planes who were in service on this ship. Anyone can give me a link or some info about this planes? Thank you, Iama |
| Posted by: vicslav August 29, 2005 10:04 am |
| The "Béarn" : http://perso.wanadoo.fr/bertrand.daubigny/PAbearn.htm A Book about the Levasseur's Plane : http://www.histoforum.org/histobiblio/article.php3?id_article=29 But nothing on line about technical datas. |
| Posted by: sid guttridge August 30, 2005 10:35 am |
| Hi Iamandi, Try: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/roger.roucolle/baseaero.html This gives Bearn's squadrons and aircraft on 1 September 1939 as: AC1 - Dewoitine D376 AC2 - Dewoitine D376 AB1 - Levasseur PL-7 AB2 - Levasseur PL-101 I guess this means each escadrille had ten aircraft. Cheers, Sid. |
| Posted by: Agarici September 05, 2005 11:07 am |
| According to this source ( http://p090.ezboard.com/fjpspanzersfrm12.showMessage?topicID=327.topic ), early in 1940 the Dewoitine D 373 and D 376 fighters of the Aeronavale were replaced by Potez 631’s. Apparently the only difference between D 373 and D 376 was that the later had folding wings, being the embarked version of the former. |
| Posted by: SiG November 01, 2005 02:29 pm |
| Here's another article about the Bearn. http://www.secondeguerre.net/Navires/France/pages/bearn.html It's in French too. If you scroll down you can see some colour profiles of the aircraft used by the French naval air-force, including carier-based planes. |