La vie a bord du porte-avions nucléaire ..Charles de Gaulle.. en novembre 2000 lors de sa 1ere traversée longue durée sur l Atlantique
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- ****EXCLUSIVE****On board the “Super-Etendard”, a pilot leaves on a mission from the Charles-de-Gaulle
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- ****EXCLUSIVE***The aircraft carrier the Charles-de-Gaulle seen from a helicopter. The ship is receiving two Dauphins and a Cougar.
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- ****EXCLUSIVE***The incessant comings and goings of the “yellow dogs” allows the carrier to have flights land and take off every minute from its flight deck.
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- ****EXCLUSIVE***The incessant comings and goings of the “yellow dogs” allows the carrier to have flights land and take off every minute from its flight deck.
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- ****EXCLUSIVE***The incessant comings and goings of the “yellow dogs” allows the carrier to have flights land and take off every minute from its flight deck.
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- ****EXCLUSIVE***The 2C Hawkeye is a jet identical to those used by the US Navy. The pilots are trained in the US.
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- ****EXCLUSIVE***The incessant comings and goings of the “yellow dogs” allows the carrier to have flights land and take off every minute from its flight deck.
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- ****EXCLUSIVE***Early in the morning, briefing the pilots.
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- ****EXCLUSIVE***The surveillance personnel waits on the flight deck. The watch crews relay one another to ensure non-stop service.
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- ****EXCLUSIVE**A catapult launching operation. The jet is pulled by a cable introduced in a seventy five meter long rail before being pushed into the air.
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- ****EXCLUSIVE**View of a pilot catapulted from the aircraft carrier.
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- ****EXCLUSIVE***Testing approach conditions (called touch and go) on the deck.
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- ****EXCLUSIVE***The air traffic control tower is the surveillance headquarters of the carrier. The tower indicates the positions to the “yellow dogs”, interprets the conditions of approach for the arriving aircraft and transmits the information to the br
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- ****EXCLUSIVE***A 180° view of the seas is visible from the bridge. Listening to the torrent of insults coming from the control center, the boat is repositioned according to wind conditions.
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- ****EXCLUSIVE***The vessel is controlled by a simple flick of the finger on a joystick.
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- ****EXCLUSIVE***Marie-Helene, aged 40, is a lieutenant on board the Charles-de-Gaulle. In the French Navy since 1980, she is now a watch officer on the bridge since July 2000.
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- ****EXCLUSIVE***Front view of the Charles-de-Gaulle.
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- ****EXCLUSIVE***In the hangar, a “Super-Etendard” surrounded by mechanics after landing.
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- ****EXCLUSIVE***The aerial armement division places wings on two 125 kilo laser guided bombs on the operating table.
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- ****EXCLUSIVE***Four armements experts around an exocet missile (AM 39).
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- ****EXCLUSIVE***Exercise involving radio-active decontamination. In case of a nuclear accident, an emergency procedure has been prepared, including two insulated decontamination halls.
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- ****EXCLUSIVE***An emergency fire drill inside the Charles-de-Gaulle.
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- ****EXCLUSIVE***The (CO) Operations Center is in charge of receiving all information and transmitting the data to the remainder of military troops stationed throughout the world.
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- ****EXCLUSIVE**OperationsCenter (CO) on board the Charles-de-Gaulle.
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- ****EXCLUSIVE***The Marines make night rounds along the gangways of the Charles-de-Gaulle
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- ****EXCLUSIVE***The Jean-Bart, an escort frigate whose mission is to protect the aircraft carriers of the French Navy
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- ****EXCLUSIVE***The Marines descend into the Hurricane, a lightweight craft.
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- ****EXCLUSIVE***When the aircraft carrier arrive, the Hurricane opens the way for the ships. The smaller ship controls the identities of the surrounding boats and makes sure the anchoring of the ship takes place without difficulty.
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- ****EXCLUSIVE**The first step of a long crossing. The Charles-de-Gaulle, dropping anchor in Fort-de-France, takes advantage of a few day stopover before leaving for colder waters.
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- ****EXCLUSIVE***In the laundry area, each day nearly a ton of laundry is washed and ironed .
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- ****EXCLUSIVE***The cooks are capable of producing and serving 4000 meals per day prepared by a crew of 38 cooks.
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- ****EXCLUSIVE***At the hair dresser (for men and women).
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- ****EXCLUSIVE***A little make-over before going back to work.
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- ****EXCLUSIVE***A reading break in one of the cabins.
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- ****EXCLUSIVE***Siham, aged 23, joined up two years ago, is a quarter-master. Music and relaxation on the forecastle.
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- ****EXCLUSIVE***The bar used by the lower class officers.
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- ****EXCLUSIVE***The military chaplain. Father Francois Grais, who had already officiated on board the Foch, celebrates mass.
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- ****EXCLUSIVE***A game of rugby on the flight deck.
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- ****EXCLUSIVE***On the flight deck, there are periods called “free deck” (the crew is given time off) during which there are no flight operations
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- ****EXCLUSIVE***Marie-Emmanuelle, aged 27, lieutenant. She joined the French Navy in 1993, now she is division head in the nuclear stoking area in the bow.
