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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Flight to France by Jules Verne Flight to France by Jules Verne. Image used with permission from Project Jules Verne Illustrations by Bernhard Krauth, www.jules-verne-club.de. Flight to France The Flight to France or The Memoirs of a Dragoon. A Tale of the Days of Dumouriez. Timeframe of novel: Events take place in 1792. Book Collecting Information: Choice Copyright Fiction series, No. 34 published by Oct 1888. Flight to France 1888 Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington London. Blue and Green Cloth Shown published November 1888 (does NOT contain Gil Braltar) Note: The image on cover has Gold Lightning and Silver Rain details. Very nice. 1st Image and detail courtesy of Andrew Cox Rare Books. ALSO NOTED in Plain Boards, with 1888 on title page! 231 pages, 31 illustrations. The Flight to France or The Memories of a Dragoon; A Tale of the Day of Dumouriez (1890) Frank F. Lovell and Company New York. 142 and 144 Worth Street. Aldine Series. The Flight to France 1891 Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington Limited London. New and Cheaper edition. with Numerous Illustrations. Top images courtesy of Andrew Cox Rare Books. The Flight to France 1891 Sampson Low, Marston and Co London. The Flight to France or The Memoirs of a Dragoon A Tale of the Days of Dumouriez 1893 Sampson Low, Marston and Co London. Flight to France nd (circa1930) Sampson Low Marston and Co London. European Cargo Ship Departs Space Station. A European cargoship the size of a London double-decker bus bid farewell to the InternationalSpace Station late Friday after five months docked at the orbiting laboratory. The EuropeanSpace Agency?s (ESA) space freighter Jules Verne, the first of a new fleet ofAutomated Transfer Vehicles (ATV), undocked from the station at 5:29 p.m. EDT(2129 GMT) to begin a leisurely, 23-day descent and destruction. Named afterthe famed 19th Century French science fiction writer Jules Verne, the $1.9billion (1.3 billion Euros) cargo ship will spend the next several weekstraveling to the proper orbit to begin its disposal by burning up in the Earth?satmosphere. Thespace freighter launched toward the space station on March 8 and docked inearly April after a series of rendezvous tests to deliver cargo and preciousmanuscripts written by its namesake author. Jules Verneis 32 feet (10 meters) long cylinder with a width of about 15 feet (4.5 meters)and hauled almost 8 tons of cargo - three times the amount delivered aboardRussian Progress spacecraft - to the space station. Since the cargo shiparrived, station astronauts retrieved its contents, usedits spacious interior as a washroom, used its four rocket engines to boostthe station?s orbit and filled the freighter full of unneeded items and trashfor its eventual disposal. Thespacecraft performed so well, mission managers at a control center in Toulouse,France, extended its flight by one extra month. Jules Verne is slated to bedestroyed on Sept. 29 when it burns up during reentry over the Pacific Ocean. ?How theATV has performed highlights extremely well how the benchmark of European spacetechnology has been raised, and the wealth of expertise present in Europeanindustry," said Simonetta Di Pippo, ESA?s director of human spaceflight, in astatement. ?This bodes well, not only for future ATV missions to theInternational Space Station, but also for developments of this kind oftechnology that may eventually provide Europe with an autonomous cargo returncapability and independent access to space for European astronauts.? ESAofficials are providing at least five ATV cargo ships to resupplythe space station in return for launch services for its Columbus laboratorydelivered to the space station this year, as well as slots for Europeanastronauts on future long-duration missions to the orbital research lab. Jules Verneis the second cargo ship to leave the space station this week. The Russianspace freighter Progress 29 castoff from the station on Monday and will reenter the Earth?s atmosphere fordisposal next week. The nextATV is slated to fly in 2010 and will follow the debut of another space stationcargo ship, Japan?s H-2A Transfer Vehicle, set for next year. ?Eventhough our schedule has been very busy at the ATV Control Centre, I couldn?thave wished for a better mission," said Herv? C?me, ESA?s ATV Jules Verne leadmission director. ?And in just over three weeks, we will be looking forward tothe ATV 2 mission in 2010.? Jules Verne to Berlin. Only three of the NC 223.4 variant were built and were initially designated as mail planes and sold to Air France. At the request of Air France inspector general Paul Codos, the NC 223.4 coded F-AJQM took the name “Camille Flammarion.” The second, coded F-ARIN took the name “Jules Verne,” while the third and last, coded F-AROA, was called “Le Verrier.” Commissioned in 1937 by Air France, the aircraft had been designated NC 223.4 since after the French government nationalized its arms industry, including the aviation concerns, in 1936, the Farman Company was a fraction of the aircraft production of SNCAC (National Aerial Vehicle Consortium). By May 1940, with the changes wrought by another World War, Air France no longer had need of long distance air transports. The trio of 223.4’s, deemed to slow for use by the French Air Force, were transferred to the Aéronavale, forming Escadrille B5, based at Orly. Curiously, the Air France deal selling the planes to the French Navy included their civilian crews. The three aircraft were to be used as long-range reconnaissance and bomber aircraft, although only one, the Jules Verne, would be converted to carry bombs. But the Jules Verne was first pressed into service for maritime patrol, deployed to protect a convoy leaving Bordeaux for Casablanca on April 4, 1940. Soon afterwards it was modified for use as a bomber. The modifications included a bombardier’s station in the nose of the aircraft, additional fuel tanks, a 7.5mm machine gun on the right side of the aircraft, and an application of matt black camouflage on the underside of the fuselage. The 223.4 ‘s were stationed at the Lenvéoc-Poulmic airfield, which became their operational base during the German offensive starting on May 10, 1940. The first mission took place on the night of May 13-14, in which the “Jules Verne” bombed the railway junctions of Aachen and Maastricht. Other missions followed to bombard Middelburg and other cities. The idea of an attack over Berlin was a retaliation for operation “Paula”: A German bombing operation against military target aside and in Paris. But bombing Paris as the Germans was way easier than bombing Berlin as the French; German lines were now just a few tens of kilometers from the capital, and while German Bombers were able to benefit from fighter escort, the French bombers couldn’t. However, Corvette Captain Henri Laurent Daillière was not a man to cancel such an operation because of his fear. The Jules Verne took off in the afternoon of the 7th of June, in order to arrive over Berlin in the middle of the night. It carried not only eight 250kg bombs, but also eighty 10kg incendiary bombs, stored in the fuselage. Going all the way through the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic sea, and using the city of Stettin (nowadays Szczecin, Poland) to find its way and turn to the right direction, the Farman managed to reach Berlin. In order to not be detected, it performed a fake landing preparation for Tempelhof airfield, making the Germans believe it was one of their aircraft. Flying at just 350 Km/h and at an altitude of just 100 meters, the Jules Verne finally found its target; it did not perform a terror raid, but an attack against a valid target: The Siemens factory of Berlin’s suburbs. As the aircraft dropped its payload (a long process; the eighty incendiary bombs had to be hand-dropped by two men), German anti-air artillery started to open fire; but the Jules Verne, after dropping all of its bombs (and the shoe of the bombardier, Corneillet, perhaps as a last “**** you” to Hitler) managed to escape, and safely landed at Orly airfield, near Paris, without having suffered significant damages. It safely landed at Orly airfield, near Paris, on the 8th of June morning, after eleven hour and forty minutes of flight; French newspapers did all relate the events, which ended up being an important propaganda success in the dark hours of June 1940. This was the first bombing of Berlin during the Second World War, months before the British made their first attempts (which would end more tragically) Following this action, Daillière and his crew were condemned to Death by Nazi Germany, and treated of pirates; to this they responded, in the pure tradition of Surcouf or Duguay-Trouin, that they were in fact corsairs. This operation was more in the nature of psychological warfare than an effort to achieve any meaningful military result (as was the subsequent American raid on Tokyo in April 1942 in the wake of the Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor), for although it was repeated three days later (a raid attacking the Heinkel factories at Rostock), these attacks did not alter the outcome of the Battle of France or the Allied collapse at Dunkirk which concluded on June 4, 1940. On the 10th of June, the Jules Verne once again went for a mission in Germany; going straight into German territory after a stop at Chartres (where the crew learned the Declaration of War from Italy), the Farman bombed the Heinkel factory of Rostock.