IVORY COAST: AVIATION WEEK ENDS WITH MASS DISPLAY

Record ID: 183170

  • Title: IVORY COAST: AVIATION WEEK ENDS WITH MASS DISPLAY
  • Date: 9th February 1967
  • Summary: 1. GV CROWDS 0.07 2. CU PRESIDENT HOUPHOUET BOIGNY SEATED. 0.11 3. GV FRENCH JETS FLY PAST (3 SHOTS) 0.30 4. SV PRESIDENT LOOKS ON. 0.32 5. SCU CHAROLAIS GIVES AEROBATIC DISPLAY (3 SHOTS). 0.52 6. SV GIRLS LOOKS THROUGH BINOCULARS 0.53 7. SV CHAROLAIS CONGRATULATED BY PRESIDENT. 1.00 8. GV & SV JACQUELINE AURIOL STEPS FROM JET AND WALKS ACROSS TARMAC TO GREET PRESIDENT. 1.13 9. SV JACQUELINE AURIOL SITS BESIDE PRESIDENT. 1.21 10. GV HELICOPTERS GIVE DISPLAY (2 SHOTS) 1.37 Initials AA/VS/CR/BB Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 24th February 1967 12:00
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  • Location: ABIDJAN, IVORY COAST
  • Country: Ivory Coast
  • Reuters ID: LVA29ZRYYF2FZ2PZ2XFF5NWGQ4NB
  • Story Text: THE FINAL DAY' OF THE IVORY COAST'S AVIATION WEEK DREW HUGE CROWDS TO PORT BOUET AIRPORT, NEAR ABIDJAN. AMONG THEM WAS THE COUNTRY'S LEADER, PRESIDENT HOUPHOUET BOIGNY.

    AMONG THE PILOTS FLYING THE FRENCH JETS WAS MADAME JACQUELINE AURIOL, DAUGHTER-IN-LAW OF M. VINCENT AURIOL, ONE-TIME PRESIDENT OF FRANCE. SHE FLEW A SUPERSONIC MYSTERE 20.

    ANOTHER FRENCH AIR ACE TALKING PART WAS M. MARCEL CHAROLAIS WHO GAVE A DEMONSTRATION OF AEROBATICS. HE IS CAPTAIN OF THE FRENCH AEROBATIC TEAM AND WORLD AEROBATIC CHAMPION.

    THERE WAS A PARADE BY THE IVORY COAST AIR FORCE WITH ALOUETTE HELICOPTERS AND C.47 TRANSPORT AIRCRAFT.
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