2010/06/30

Airminded 30/06/2010 : new Renard R36 book – 2009 results - Mirage5 video - links

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The 2nd Tactical Air Force Medium Bombers Association Newsletter page is updated. The back issues of 2009 and 2010 including the May 2010 issues are now available on the website of the bamf at http://www.bamf.be/Dispersals/

Coming soon

Wissant / Audembert Spectacle Aérien le 18 et 19 septembre 2010.

par l'Association de la Mémoire de la Bataile d'Angleterre sur la Côte d'Opale

June, 30th, 2010,

Renard R36 a new book of the FNAR.

http://www.fnar.be/RenardR36livre.htm

We are happy to transmit the news of the publication of the book of Nicolas about the Renard R36, please find all the details on the FNAR website (direct link here).

The book is in French and English and contains many never before published pictures as well as fine drawings. The cover is by Romain Hugault. No doubt some will acquire this publication for the cover as this is really a piece of art but the book is maybe the definitive reference on the Renard fighters.

Bamf operating account 2009

As all non profit organizations in Belgium (ASBL/VZW) May and June were busy periods to check the financial results of the previous year and submit theses documents to the legal authorities. As these documents are legal and public, to add even more transparency to our actions we publish the figures. Sorry but only a French speaking version is available here (Bamf operating accounts 2009).

Bristol Sycamore

In 2008, the Museum acquired a missing link in our aviation heritage with the Bristol Sycamore. This is the subject of a new page on our website.

Links

Our friends of the Belgians in SAAF and RAF 1940-1945 are never sleeping. They have been contacted by the webmaster of the site dealing with the Battle of Britain Monument in London to help with the biography of the Belgian pilots. Visit the site our link section

Pegase is the newspapers of the Amis du Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace of Le Bourget. The first issue was published in 1976. This publication was and is still a reference about aviation history and air museums publications. The AAMA offers now some of the issues of Pegase as free pdf download and the list of all articles published since more than 30 years. A link is available in our link section.

Video

From 1971 to 1994, the Mirage 5 was in use with the Belgian Air Force. The French fighter was maybe the most elegant aircraft ever used in Belgium. In 1992, the Belgian French speaking television network produced a TV show about the 42th squadron (Mephisto) flying Mirage 5BR in the reconnaissance role from Bierset air base. This interesting document was found on youtube and is a tribute to the Mirage 5 and the airmen who maintained and flow this aircraft. See our Video Section

Many happy landings.

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2010/06/15

Airminded 15/06/2010 : Edouard Goossens, bamf.be important notice, Trip to Berlin, SV4 Meeting, B-25 films, List André Dillien

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The 2nd Tactical Air Force Medium Bombers Association Newsletter page is updated. The back issues of 2009 and 2010 including the May 2010 issues are now available on the website of the bamf at http://www.bamf.be/Dispersals/

Coming soon

A book about the Renard R36 is in the tube. We hope to have more information next week.

Wissant / Audembert Spectacle Aérien le 18 et 19 septembre 2010.

par l'Association de la Mémoire de la Bataile d'Angleterre sur la Côte d'Opale

June, 15th, 2010,

Another Mitchell boy is gone.

On June 11th, Edouard Goossens left us for his last flight. Thanks to André bar, we discovered the history of this airman a few months ago. Mr Goossens published a book about his evasion from Belgium and his odyssey in Miranda. (Information and illustration André Bar)

We will not forget him. (Information and illustration André Bar)

Bamf.be : Important notice (Fiscal deduction, FAQ)

A few weeks ago we received a document who concludes a long process to renew the fiscal deduction for donations.

Our organization succeed in answering the questions of 3 different ministries and ensure our donators the gift they made, make and will make strictly respect the legislation and is 100% dedicated to our targets.

All donations above 30,00 Euro made by belgian residents to BAMF are tax-deductible.

This privilege (BAMF is, to the best of our knowledge, the only air-minded organisation benefiting from this status) has recently been renewed and is valid until further renewal, in 2013.

Donations certificates for the year 2009 are gone with the post, they should be in your hands.

We herewith take the opportunity to thank our donators for their confidence in our actions. Be sure our motivation and dedication is intact in going ahead with our targets whatever are the gremlins we meet.

The information are available at http://www.bamf.be/?Fiscal_Deduction

In the past our actions were sometime subject to misunderstandings. To clarify some points, we invite you to visit and read our Frequent asked questions

Last but not least to answer some queries, the list of our board of directors is also now available on the website.

A last word on our internet activities to thanks our monthly. 3000+ visitors. They were 3000 last month but some months, there were 8000 visitors from everywhere in the world who visited our (your) website. We are not yet reaching the number of visitors of long established and renowned internet site but with a rate of growth of 11% we are on the right track. These figures are not taking in account the websites we are hosting and supporting (Dispersals, bahl, André Dillien lists...).

Special Sales at De Krijger June 27th

The publications from De Krijger were during years one of the most important source of information about Belgian military history. The shop of Koen and his wife was the regular meeting point for many of us and De Krijger was the publisher of some of the finest Belgian authors still active today. Koen left us a few years ago. If you want to visit De Krijger maybe for the last time a special sale is organized on Sunday, June 27th, 2010, Boekhandel De Krijger in Erpe Mere opens its doors for (probably) the last time. Opening times : 14h-17h Dorpsstraat 144 9420 ERPE ( Erpe-Mere ) België

This is your last chance to find the book your are looking for. 30% reductions will be given. (thanks for the information Dirk ASA Antwerpen)

Trips & pictures

Visits to Berlin. Last week Vincent visited Berlin. He shared us pictures taken at the Technikmuseum and the ILA airshow. Berlin can seem a distant destination but photos will show you that the journey is worth it.

Belgian French Stampe meeting : A Belgian French meeting of Stampe SV4 was organized on the base of Cazaux ( France), where the future pilots of the Armée de l’Air and Composair are trained. SV4’s from the Stampe Centre of Antwerp were present. Information thanks to Guy Gudenkauf.

Réunion franco-belge Stampe à Cazaux
Jun 3, 2010 by Bruno (Thanks Guy Gudenkauf)
Vincent Jacobs Berlin ILA 6-2010
Berlin, Germany -Jun 11, 2010
Pictures taken by Vincent during his visit to ILA
Vincent Jacobs TechnikMuseum Berlin 6-2010
Jun 9, 2010
Pictures taken during his visit to the TechnikMuseum in Berlin (Germany) 06/2010

Video

The Imperial War Museum in London house treasures. For the B-25 project we acquired films (for private use only) relating to the Mitchell including films on B-25 ‘s filmed in Brussels. The services of the Museum are highly professional. The queries are replied within a few hours. Here following is a link to the B-25 films available at this institution.See also http://collections.iwm.org.uk/

Website update

A new update of the lists of André have been just uploaded. 35 files updates more than 2800 pages about the Belgian civil registers, list of Belgian pilots and much more. Visit the lists at André Dillien lists

Cibles/Vizier

Cibles/Vizier : You can now subscribe to receive the newsletters of the Museum.

Het Koninklijk Legermuseum houdt rekening met het milieu en de drukkosten. U wenst het infoblad "Vizier" elektronisch te krijgen? Stuur dan een mailtje naar vizier-subscribe@klm-mra.be zo blijft u op de hoogte van de laatste nieuwigheden en wordt u voor onze activiteiten uitgenodigd.

Le Musée royal de l'Armée se préoccupe de l'environnement et du coût. Vous pouvez à present vous inscrire à la liste de diffusion électronique de la revue "Cibles" par courriel à cibles-subscribe@klm-mra.be Vous recevrez en primeur les dernières nouveautés et les invitations à nos activités.

Many happy landings.

Help

Since Many years, Daniel Brackx (www.baha.be) works on the fascinating history of the German aircraft delivered to Belgium after WW1. Some of these aircraft were captured but many others were delivered directly from the factories in reparation paid according to the Versailles treaty of 1919. Until now, Daniel identified 400 aircraft. He is searching any information which can help to complement this unknown part of our aviation history. If you can help, please do not hesitate to contact Daniel at brackda@gmail.com.

Daniel is also looking for the serial number of the Spad XIII found many year ago at the Université du Travail in Charleroi and exchanged with the Bourget Air Museum.

Do not hesitate to forward and share theses news with anyone who could be interested. You are always welcome to share news or links with us, just drop us a mail at airminded@bamf.be To join our mailing list, just send a mail to airminded@bamf.be.

2010/06/04

Airminded 04/06/2010 : Back to Bussiness, Romeo, Mirage F1

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Coming soon



l’Extraordinaire Odyssée
du Ier Corps d’Autos
Blindées
BELGIQUE – RUSSIE 1914 -1918
samedi 05 juin 2010 à 14.00 h.


Wissant / Audembert Spectacle Aérien le 18 et 19 septembre 2010.

 par l'Association de la Mémoire de la Bataile d'Angleterre sur la Côte d'Opale



June, 4th, 2010,                                                                   

Faster that Flypast ?

During 7 weeks we cannot access the workshop. Now, we are back. This forced inactivity was not lost as a lot a backstage tasks were performed and much many contacts established.

Amongst the gems received during this period, Marco send us pictures of a very rare Romeo Ro 37 in transit from the UK to Spain. Again the proof nothing is impossible if you have the right stuff, in the air or doing obscure and sometime boring restoration activities. The only secret is to stay open minded and determined.

Didier also send us delightful pictures of his Chipmunk in flight with Stefaan at the control (do not forget Didier offer a flight in this aircraft for any significant gift for the B-25 project see http://www.bamf.be/?A_B-25_Back_to_Belgium .

 

The Museum received the Mirage F1C (c/n 100) gift of the French Ministry of Defense. This fine aircraft in desert camouflage was directly delivered to the reserve.    



Back to Bussiness


 Michele and Eric installed the pitot tube on the Mosquito. The experience of Michele as an electrician was a plus to connect the cables. Bruno helped to modify a trestle for the rear wheel. This equipment was manufactured many months ago but the dimensions were wrong. Bruno adapted the support and Michele & Eric installed it. The wheel which was in danger to be damaged is now preserved.

Nicolas and Philippe are going ahead with the covering of the wings of the Storch. During our “holydays” Nicolas and Vincent went to France, at their own expenses to take delivery of parts missing for these wings.

 Both Marc (Lor… & Low… 2 for the price of 1 J ) and Vincent assembled the fuselage and the wings of the Tipsy Belfair for repairs. Both Marcs are also very busy trying to save & preserve the damaged wing of damaged Tipsy.

We are still waiting 2 machine guns to complete the A-26 turret.

 Ferhat recruited a new volunteer to help him on the Renard R-31. Let’s pray he will stay. Pierre will now work at the Ateliers Poncelet to cover the wings of the replica of the R-31.

Il Maestro found trailers to install the fuselage of the B-25. He will now work to modify theses parts.


Olivier visited us to work with Pierre on the biography of de Monge and André received Mr Nieuwenhuys and his granddaughter. Mr Nieuwenhuys flow Mosquitoes and B-25’s as a navigator with the RAF during the World War 2.

 

  The renowned Classic Wings newspaper (NZ) published an article about our restorations. Good show Nicolas and another good connection.  

 

There are so much new pictures to about our activities, we invite you to visit our pictures galleries at http://www.bamf.be/?Our_picture_Gallery to be part of the move. 

 

We also added a lot of links to videos at http://www.bamf.be/?Video with focus on Sabena helicopters and the Piasecki H-21 Workhorse/Shawnee as the Defense is currently in search of a H-21 lost many years ago in Congo with a Belgian crew.

 

Thanksto those who already answered the query about the Bobcat OO-TIN


A book abou t the Renard R36 is in the tube. We hope to have more in fo rmation next week.  

 

 

 

 




Many happy landings.



Help


Since Many years, Daniel Brackx (www.baha.be) works on the fascinating history of the German aircraft delivered to Belgium after WW1. Some of these aircraft were captured but many others were delivered directly from the factories in reparation paid according to the Versailles treaty of 1919. Until now, Daniel identified 400 aircraft. He is searching any information which can help to complement this unknown part of our aviation history. If you can help, please do not hesitate to contact Daniel at brackda@gmail.com.

Daniel is also looking for the serial number of the Spad XIII found many year ago at the Université du Travail in Charleroi and exchanged with the Bourget Air Museum.

Do not hesitate to forward and share theses news with anyone who could be interested.
You are always welcome to share news or links with us, just drop us a mail at airminded@bamf.be
To join our mailing list, just send a mail to airminded@bamf.be.



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