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Subject: French Foreign Legion Air Drop Over Timbuktu
SYSOP    1/29/2013 12:08:50 PM
 
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Librarian    Not so   1/29/2013 7:56:05 PM
I suspect that most Old Légionnaires would be more jealous than offended that the Légion used planes to get to Timbuktu. More recent ones would probably comment "Why the f*** are they still using C-160 Transalls! Why doesn't l'Armée de l'Air have something more recent!" ;-)
 
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ka5s    or muse how mich bette rit is now   1/30/2013 8:05:21 AM
Having read Simon Murray...'s Legionnaire: Five Years in the..., I suspect the old-timers are glad they got to the C-160.  He mentions what seem to be C-119's and also H-21's.
 
FWIW dept: C-160's are a newer design than the C-130. 
 
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Evan       2/2/2013 3:14:38 PM
Do you cargo birds come with 4 or 2 engines, just thought I would ask?
 
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Librarian    Nord Atlas   2/2/2013 5:18:27 PM
They were probably Nord Noratlas's rather than C-119's. Both had a very simillar configuration and are easy to mistake. However, the Noratlas were a French design, hence why the Légion used them rather than the Fairchild C-119's.
 
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Librarian    Nord Atlas   2/2/2013 7:16:26 PM
They were probably Nord Noratlas's rather than C-119's. Both had a very simillar configuration and are easy to mistake. However, the Noratlas were a French design, hence why the Légion used them rather than the Fairchild C-119's.
 
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