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Ancienne mairie, actuelle bibliothèque d'Aucaleuc (22). par GO69 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Nouvelle mairie d'Aucaleuc (22). par Rundvald (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Oratoire près de l'église Saint-Symphorien d'Aucaleuc (22). par GO69 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Monuments aux morts d'Aucaleuc (22). par GO69 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Une plaque émaillée Michelin, indiquant la ville de Dinan à 5 kilomètres sur la route de Corseul (D794), scellée sur le mur d’une maison. par Rundvald (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The premises of the Aeronautical Maintenance School Center (CEMA) founded in 1989 at the Bel Air Aerodrome in Dinan-Trélivan. par Rundvald (CC BY-SA 4.0)

At the Bel Air aerodrome in Dinan-Trélivan in the Côtes d'Armor (Brittany, France), the hangar-workshop of SIBA (Société d'Instruments de Bord et d'Avionique), an avionics maintenance and services company, specializing in the repair of on-board instruments and radios for planes and helicopters. SIBA also carries out complete avionics retrofits in its workshops. Here, a Bölkow Bö 207 is parked in front of the entrance to the Dinanais premises. This is example No. 290 built in 1966 and registered in France "F-GZXM" since June 13, 2006. It wears the livery of the « Schweiz Luftverkehrsschule » of the aircraft for the start of pilot training of the company "Swissair ” to which it belonged for the first two years of its existence under the registration HB-UXM. It was then registered LX-UXM in Luxembourg. This four-seater with classic fixed gear and low wings is equipped with a 180 hp Lycoming engine. In France, it is the only one of its kind in flying condition. The Bölkow Bö 207 is in fact the new name given to the Klemm KL107C when Bölkow Entwicklungen KG purchased Klemm on April 30, 1959, becoming the owner of the rights. Production continued to be carried out by the Nabern factory in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. par Rundvald (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The Boeing “A 75N1” Stearman Model 75 whose military designation is “PT-17 KAYDET Id Number 41-8094”: this example, whose serial number is “S/N 75-1653”, is powered by a Continental engine R-670-5. He is here stationed at the Bel Air aerodrome in Dinan-Trélivan in Côtes-d'Armor (Brittany, France), on Sunday September 17, 2023, a day during which he climbed to almost 600 meters, performing a little aerobatics, with “lazy eight” type figures where you fly at very high speed at the bottom and where you are on the verge of stalling at the top. The high rotation speed of the Stearman's propeller means that the tips of the blades can reach the speed of sound, which makes the noise of this aircraft particularly characteristic. This training biplane, with a wingspan of 10 meters and a weight of 1,200 kilograms, has had an extraordinary life. It is an American military aircraft rolled off the line on May 16, 1941, built by Stearman, a subsidiary of Boeing since 1934. It was admitted to service on May 29, 1941. It will be in operation for the entire war at Carlstrom Field near Arcadia, Florida. Called “the yellow peril”, it is used to train American pilots but especially English pilots as well as a few French ones. During this period he had three accidents. On January 4, 1942, he went off the runway into a ditch: a landing gear, a wing and a propeller were then destroyed. On April 14, 1944, he made an inverted pass after braking hard because of a row of North American T-6 Texans which scared his student pilot. As a result, the plane will return to service after some minor damage: all the wings destroyed, the undercarriage smashed, the engine "out of order", part of the empennage and the front frames destroyed, and there is no longer a propeller , alas... That's where the bone is! It is therefore almost a new plane which returns to service a few weeks later. However, the adventures were not over because on December 18, 1944, the fuselage was slightly damaged after hitting a marker on the ground. With the World War II over, civilian life begins. It was recycled in agricultural spreading until 1977. Its registration changed: from NR 64926, it passed to N 64926 during the overhaul of American registrations. It was sold on March 9, 1946 to Belford Flying Service in Arkansas, then resold on September 17, 1948 to E. E. Terry, still in Arkansas. Roane Flying Service, in Louisiana, whose owner is… E. E. Terry, bought it on January 18, 1965. It was then modified with a new engine, a Pratt&Whitney R 985, which was used to validate the STC (Supplemental Type Certificate) which would be then proposed by Roane. Alder Mc Carthy, in Arkansas, bought it on July 30, 1971. He would be the last American owner of the biplane. In 1977, Jean Salis exchanged it for a Delahaye 135. Then began a restoration which ended in 1982. During its civilian life, it had all possible wing and engine modifications. Its spreader wings ended up on another friendly Stearman and it was returned to its original configuration. This is the first Stearman imported into France. It was sold again in 1986 to another French pilot, who finally sold it to the current owner in 2007. Furthermore, there is an unusual fact about this Stearman PT-17. Indeed, it is precisely this aircraft that a certain Neil Armstrong piloted in the 1940s. The first man who will walk on the Moon on July 21, 1969, was then around fifteen years old when he settled down on his orders in the skies of Ohio in the United States. Several decades later, he came back on board, but this time as a passenger, during the “Le temps des Hélices” meeting in 1988 in La Ferté-Alais (France). At first, the fact that the astronaut flew this example was a myth, until the day the current owner of this venerable aircraft, a Breton purist, found the complete history of this biplane across the Atlantic. He thus holds proof that Neil Armstrong piloted his plane before his aircraft was imported into France. The name and signature of the legendary astronaut appear on the Pilot logbook. Maintenance of the Stearman PT-17 is detailed, but no more complex than a car. On the other hand, you must not wait for a part to fail, otherwise you are sure to die. It takes 10 hours of mechanical maintenance for a single hour of flight. par Rundvald (CC BY-SA 4.0)

One of the hangars of the Dinan-Trélivan aerodrome in the Côtes d'Armor (Brittany, France): in the background, we can see a Hatz CB-1 biplane landing on runway (LFEB) 07, in the southwest direction towards northeast. par Rundvald (CC BY-SA 4.0)

One of the hangars of the Dinan - Trélivan aerodrome in the Côtes d'Armor (Brittany, France): in front of the entrance to the building, a small ultra-light plane is admired by a nice little bunch of passionate kids and their fathers and mothers... Um, pardon ! I have to say “their parents 1 and parents 2” => political correctness obliges (without forgetting good thinking, unique thinking, stupid and blind inclusiveness, egalitarianism implying leveling down, the “# throw away your bastard father because two mothers are better", the "get mixed race because white is dirty", the "grand-replace these horrible white-blond beaks", the cretinization and left-winging of minds, etc.)! par Rundvald (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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