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  • Bastille Day 2018

    Want to watch minute by minute coverage of today's Parade?


    Saw some rehearsals on yt earier this week. They use the runway of some airbase for the dress rehearsals.
    For now, everything hangs on implementation of the CoDF report.

  • #2
    Todays parade. Love that the Legion are the only ones not to split at the end.
    EN DIRECT | Défilé du #14Juillet #BastilleDay



    (macro doesn't seem to popular with Paris spectators this morning)
    Last edited by na grohmiti; 14 July 2019, 17:32.
    For now, everything hangs on implementation of the CoDF report.

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    • #3
      I was reading the story on RTE, and this picture caught my eye - what the hell is it?





      French President Emmanuel Macron has sought to showcase European military cooperation in France's annual Bastille Day parade at a time of growing tensions between Europe and the United States.
      Last edited by Flamingo; 14 July 2019, 20:37.
      'He died who loved to live,' they'll say,
      'Unselfishly so we might have today!'
      Like hell! He fought because he had to fight;
      He died that's all. It was his unlucky night.
      http://www.salamanderoasis.org/poems...nnis/luck.html

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Flamingo View Post
        I was reading the story on RTE, and this picture caught my eye - what the hell is it?





        https://www.rte.ie/news/2019/0714/10...space-command/
        It is French upstaging the 4th July parade in DC..... just wait for the demand from the big Orange to have the same!

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        • #5
          Originally posted by EUFighter View Post
          It is French upstaging the 4th July parade in DC..... just wait for the demand from the big Orange to have the same!
          Didn’t he get the idea after attending a Bastille Day Parade?

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Flamingo View Post
            I was reading the story on RTE, and this picture caught my eye - what the hell is it?





            https://www.rte.ie/news/2019/0714/10...space-command/
            Its the flyboard.
            For now, everything hangs on implementation of the CoDF report.

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            • #7
              Okay...

              I can't help wondering whether Amazon or Deliveroo will be the first to deploy them...
              Last edited by Flamingo; 15 July 2019, 00:04.
              'He died who loved to live,' they'll say,
              'Unselfishly so we might have today!'
              Like hell! He fought because he had to fight;
              He died that's all. It was his unlucky night.
              http://www.salamanderoasis.org/poems...nnis/luck.html

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              • #8
                This link is a good view of the Day. At 9.30min the future stuff is displayed,the rocket man turns up at about 20min.

                France celebrates #BastilleDay with traditional military parade on the Champs-Elysee.Subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?ad...


                Has Ireland ever being invited to sent troops to march in the parade?
                Last edited by sofa; 15 July 2019, 00:55.

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                • #9
                  Thanks for the links, impressive stuff.

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                  • #10
                    Yes, a colour party went there some years ago.
                    For now, everything hangs on implementation of the CoDF report.

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                    • #11
                      RTE are saying what it is now.

                      I wonder how stable a weapons-platform it would be, or would Newtons Third Law play havoc with it?

                      A French inventor and entrepreneur soared above the Champs-Elysees on a turbine engine-powered flyboard in front of President Emmanuel Macron and other EU leader for Bastille Day celebrations in Paris yesterday.


                      Hoverboard steals the show at Bastille Day parade
                      Updated / Monday, 15 Jul 2019 08:05
                      Former jet-skiing champion Franky Zapata developed the flyboard
                      Former jet-skiing champion Franky Zapata developed the flyboard
                      A French inventor and entrepreneur soared above the Champs-Elysees on a turbine engine-powered flyboard in front of President Emmanuel Macron and other EU leader for Bastille Day celebrations in Paris yesterday.

                      Former jet-skiing champion Franky Zapata, grasping a rifle in a sign of the possible military uses of his device, took to the air in a futuristic showpiece of the annual Bastille Day parade.

                      French Armed Forces Minister Florence Parly told France Inter radio ahead of the parade that the flyboard "can allow tests for different kinds of uses, for example as a flying logistical platform or, indeed, as an assault platform".

                      Zapata, who first developed his device flying above water, says that the flyboard has the power to take off and reach speeds up to 190km/hr and run for ten minutes.

                      He is now eyeing a crossing of the English Channel which, for the first time, will require a refuelling in mid-flight.

                      Zapata aims to make the crossing on 25 July, 110 years to the day after pioneering aviator Louis Bleriot made the first airplane flight across the Channel.
                      Last edited by Flamingo; 15 July 2019, 09:18.
                      'He died who loved to live,' they'll say,
                      'Unselfishly so we might have today!'
                      Like hell! He fought because he had to fight;
                      He died that's all. It was his unlucky night.
                      http://www.salamanderoasis.org/poems...nnis/luck.html

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Flamingo View Post
                        RTE are saying what it is now.

                        I wonder how stable a weapons-platform it would be, or would Newtons Third Law play havoc with it?

                        https://www.rte.ie/news/newslens/201...stille-zapata/
                        Maybe it's for the new "commande d'espace" that Macron announced for the air force before the parade.

                        This will help "to better protect our satellites, including in an active way," President Macron says.
                        Last edited by CTU; 15 July 2019, 09:39.
                        It was the year of fire...the year of destruction...the year we took back what was ours.
                        It was the year of rebirth...the year of great sadness...the year of pain...and the year of joy.
                        It was a new age...It was the end of history.
                        It was the year everything changed.

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                        • #13
                          CNN say Trump will want one

                          Will a jet-powered flying board at the French Bastille Day parade inspire President Trump to new heights? CNN’s Jeanne Moos reports.
                          'He died who loved to live,' they'll say,
                          'Unselfishly so we might have today!'
                          Like hell! He fought because he had to fight;
                          He died that's all. It was his unlucky night.
                          http://www.salamanderoasis.org/poems...nnis/luck.html

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