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Old 10 December 2007, 01:35 AM   #5
gilles
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Hello,

A french magazine published a picture of MS398 as the one used by Navarre.
I don't know where they got the info. Navarre is not in the picture.

For the man in MS394, my candidate would be Maurice Tabuteau, a pionneer and test-pilot known to have tested the MoS N in squadron use; Jean Chaput was much younger.

About the Chaput/esc.159 confusion I suppose it comes from the two dark stripes painted on the fuselage, mistakenly interpreted as the two red stripes used by esc.159 but actually this is a tricolor flag. Furthermore Chaput was at esc.31, esc.159 did not exist at that time (march 1916).

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