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Vélizy-Villacoublay Air Base
Vélizy-Villacoublay Air Base () is a French Air and Space Force (Armée de l'air et de l'espace) (ALAE) base. The base is located approximately southeast of Vélizy-Villacoublay; about southwest of Paris. Units The base is the home station for the following units: * Escadron de Transport 41 Verdun with the SOCATA TBM 700 * Escadron de Transport 60 with the Airbus A330, Dassault Falcon 7X, Dassault Falcon 2000, Dassault Falcon 900 and the Eurocopter AS332 Super Puma * Escadron d'Hélicoptères 3/67 Parisis with the Eurocopter Fennec * Escadrille Aérosanitaire 6/560 Étampes Aircraft Aircraft assigned to the base are: * 1 Airbus A330-200 (Presidential plane: Cotam 001) (however, the runways are too short for this plane, which is stationed at Évreux-Fauville Air Base) * 2 Dassault Falcon 7X * 3 Eurocopter AS332 Super Puma * 2 Dassault Falcon 2000EX * 8 AS 555UN FENNEC * 2 Dassault Falcon 900 * 6 TBM700 The air base is also important for the national security of Fra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roundel Of France
A roundel is a circular disc used as a symbol. The term is used in heraldry, but also commonly used to refer to a type of national insignia used on military aircraft, generally circular in shape and usually comprising concentric rings of different colours. Other symbols also often use round shapes. Heraldry In heraldry, a ''roundel'' is a circular charge (heraldry), charge. ''Roundels'' are among the oldest charges used in coat of arms, coats of arms, dating from at least the twelfth century. Roundels in British heraldry have different names depending on their tincture (heraldry), tincture. Thus, while a roundel may be blazoned by its tincture, e.g., ''a roundel vert'' (literally "a roundel green"), it is more often described by a single word, in this case ''pomme'' (literally "apple", from the French) or, from the same origins, ''pomeis''—as in "Vert; on a cross Or five pomeis" (a green field with a golden/yellow cross on which are drawn five green roundels/circles). One s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
