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Wow. All I can say is wow. I recently returned to the Armée de l'Air article after not visiting for many months. Last I saw, it was a miserable stub and a shame to wikipedia, but it has since blossomed into an incredible work under what looks to be mostly your guidance. It looks to me as though someday soon these articles will be ready for a Featured Article nomination. For all your work, I award you this barnstar. -Lommer | ^talk 20:10, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

I've looked through the new face Armée de l'Air, I'm planning to revamp the article a bit. What do you think of making the main Armée de l'Air article an overview of the entire thing instead of a redirect? It would contain a brief history (with links to appropriate detailed histories, using the "Main Article:" format) and a description of the air force today (strength, equipment used, deployments, etc.). -Lommer | ^talk 20:55, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

Thank you so much for your kind words, Lommer! I'm very grateful to you. I have (as I may have said in the User page for yours truly) had quite an interest in military aviation history since I was nine years old (and I am 39 now!). I have greatly enjoyed constructing the articles about the history of the French air force from 1909 to 1962, since I love both history and the French language. You may have guessed from the external links that I have used some French-language sources for the articles, which, I hope, give fellow Wikipedians a better idea of an air force which is hardly known compared to, say, the RAF, the Luftwaffe and the United States Air Force.

I will leave your ideas for an article about the modern French air force of today plus main article, etc, etc, in your capable hands, Lommer, so I have no problems with that, nor with the little blue boxes you have inserted into the history articles. I look forward to seeing them! Thank you also for your Featured Article nomination. I hope it gets it! Christopher Crossley 11:20, 13 May 2005 (UTC)

Armée de l'Air (Part III) - incomplete sentence?

Scanning through the text of Armée de l'Air (Part III: End of empire in Indochina and Algeria, 1939-1962) I came across what I think is a sentence missing some words:

The signs that the French influence in this part of the world started more or less at this point (rather than after the end of World War II) when France was forced to cede ...

Maybe if it said something like

The signs that the French influence in this part of the world were waning started more or less at this point (rather than after the end of World War II) when France was forced to cede ...

Could you check your sources and see if I'm correct? Shenme 03:27, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Historic Warplane Question

History of the Armée de l'Air (colonial presence 1939-1962) in section 6 about Algeria may refer erroneously to the Martin B-26 when the plane in use at that time by the Armée de l'Air was more likely the Douglas A-26 (renamed B26 after WWII). The picture shows a Martin plane in used by the Free French in WWII, but those planes were generally considered obsolete even by the end of WWII. I’m not sure enough to make the correction, but I thought we might want to consider the possibility. --Kevin Murray 05:09, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

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