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[SIZE=3]France[/SIZE]
The Aeronavale is sending a production Bloch MB.1050 Milan belonging to the Flotille 32F of the 4e Groupement Aérien de Porte-avions. The aircraft will be piloted by Enseigne de vaisseau de première classe Roger Sauvage, a black West Indian (Martinique) pilot born in Paris who joined the Aeronavale in 1937. Originally a carrier reconnaissance pilot, Sauvage received the opportunity to attend the FAR Aerial Warfare School in Limoges. He graduated fifth in the Class of 1940 out of two hundred eighty (which included French, Atlantean, Russian, Byzantine, Chilean, and Colombian pilots). He was temporarily employed flying preproduction Bloch Milans as part of the demonstration escadrille at the Paris Air Show. Although he is a fairly junior pilot, in January 1941 he was assigned to Flotille 32F to assist their transition to the new Bloch MB.1050, and Sauvage has logged more flight hours in the Milan than any other pilot aside from Bloch's chief test pilot.
The Armee de l'Aire is sending a stock-standard Arsenal VG.60 Revenant piloted by Capitaine Edmond Marin La Meslee. Marin La Meslee joined the Air Force in 1931 and graduated officer candidate school in 1937. He is recently promoted to the command of Escadron de chasse 01.002 "Cigognes", the most illustrious fighter squadron in the French military (part of Groupe de Chasse I/3). EC1/2 t is the inheritor of the traditions of Georges Guynemer's "SPA 3" and René Fonck's "SPA 12" escadrilles, and the squadron's logo, showing three flying storks, is among the most recognized symbols of any military unit. This is his second Talons appearance.
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[SIZE=3]Chile[/SIZE]
Comandante de Escuadrilla Carlos Matta (b.1910) (rank equivalent to Major) is representing the FACh and is flying a ENAER-built F2E Buchon. Matta is the commander of 110 Escuadrón, 3rd Fighter Regiment, I Brigada. Matta first flew in combat against Bolivia in the Andean War, shooting down two Bolivian biplanes despite flying a bomber. He was thereafter promoted to pilot fighters. In the Air Battle of Arica and Tacna, Matta scored three kills against Peruvian aircraft, shooting down a Hurricane, a Boulton-Paul Defiant, and a Bristol Beaufort. The final combat resulted in Matta's F-12 Aves being hit by machine gun fire; Matta bailed out of his burning F-12 and was taken prisoner by the Peruvian Army. Matta has 17,500 flight hours, being qualified in Spartan Storms, Spartan Cyclones, Accrisius Aves, I-01-IIB Buchons, and F2E fighters, among others. He has a total of eleven years flying experience, and this is his third Talons appearance. Matta's I-02 is named "Laura Fiora II" for his wife, and painted in the stock-standard Chilean desert camouflage.
Capitan de Corbeta (Lt. Com.) Patricio Mistral (b.1908) represents the Armada de Chile Arma Aérea (Chilean Navy Air Arm). Mistral flew combat missions during the Andean War as well as the Peruvian War, scoring one aerial kill in each war. He has 19,800 flying hours and twelve years flying experience. He has now served for two years as an instructor at the FAR Aerial Warfare School in Limoges and is the main Chilean advocate for carrier-based night-fighters. This is his fourth Talons appearance. This year he is flying a Chilean-built F4E-2 Corsair (this is the version with the corrected landing gear, stall strip and Malcolm hood).
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Obviously.... But I promise, I will show the pic. Later.
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