“No more noise than a mosquito”: the first air corridor reserved for drones opens in Essonne

2023-07-11 08:00:44

In 1945, the first flight test center moved to Air Base 217, a military aviation camp created just before the war in Brétigny-sur-Orge (Essonne). It is here that we will test the ejection seat in 1948, that we will break the sound barrier in 1952 and that we will raise the altitude record in a helicopter to 10,984 m, in 1958. It’s simple , until the year 2000, everything that flew in France was tested here.