September 11, 201015 yr After the Summer, I continue researching about 1950s fighting planes. Today I've finded a curious information about the forward deployment of 4xCF-100 Canuck of the Belgian Air Force, with the support of 2xC-119 Flying Boxcar, to the Belgian Congo, after the Leopoldville Riots and a year before his independence and the subsequent Katanga Secession War. It was named Operation Simba. As force deployment was small (and the CF-100 was a all-weather interceptor, similar to the F-89 Scorpion, without specific air-to-ground weapons), but was impressive because his long range and the small size and facilities of the Belgian Air Force (We can remember also other daring operations of the Belgian Para-Commandos in Africa, in sucessive crisis). Some evocative links: Operation Simba (in French): http://beauvechain.free.fr/simba/SIMBA.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo_Crisis A related mysterious aviation file, the death of the UN General Secretary Dag Hammarskjold on a DC-6B: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dag_Hammarskj%C3%B6ld#Death (He is the only person to have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize posthumously, err ... or it not was Barak Hussein Obama? ). Other times, other planes, other wars ... September 11. Now in my TV playing Flight 93 ...
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