[MilCom] French Air to Air

[Jeff Haverlah]

At 02:43 PM 6/2/05, Rapbep at aol.com wrote:

>All,
>
>In the late 1500 hour EDT I'm hearing French language milair comms on 139.45
>AM.  I've heard only one callsign so far Charlie 1 Papa.
>
>A couple of possibilities:
>
>I think I read in the last couple of weeks that there were some French Air
>Force Mirages visiting here in the US.  This could be them on their way up 
>the
>East Coast on their way home.
>
>Possible ducting from Canada but the French doesn't have that Canadian
>"twang" to it.


That probably would be the carrier Charles de Gaulle on a visit to North 
America.

Their aircraft made the news this morning (mechanical, bad weather, and 
someone bumped up against his credit card limit for fuel and got stuck in 
Atlantic City)...

http://www.wnbc.com/news/4564225/detail.html

Jeff Haverlah

>


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