René de Narbonne
 

Hi all,

I am a student of journalism, with interest in airplanes and flying, and now writing my dissertation about disappearing a small airplane in 1948. I know it doesn't belong to this topic but now I especially look for any information about the pilot of the plane.

His name was René de Narbonne and he was a French pilot flying in RAF in the WW2. After the war, he was flying for a small air-taxi company called Mercure. I'd like to get some information about him, about his life, about his pilot's career, and especially about his disappearing and then about finding his supposed body (about 1949, but I'm not sure). Every information about him and about the Mercure air-taxi company would be great and I'll be very lucky for it, because I don't know almost nothing now.

If you knew anything about him I would be really very grateful. Thanks very much for all the help and tips: links, books, magazine articles... Unfortunately, I can't French, so I need all the sources in English.
Thank you very much for all the effort and help!

Have a nice day :)
Tereza Sirova, Czech republic

Re: René de Narbonne
 

Tereza,

Found short biography here, but it's in French: http://pdennez.free.fr/hommes/html/h081.html

and something in Czech here: http://encyklopedie.seznam.cz/heslo/...kych-hokejistu

René de Narbonne wrote several books as well.

I'm sure you know someone who can translate the French text for you?
Otherwise give me a PM.

Regards,

Leendert

Re: René de Narbonne
 

Hello Tereza,

Maybe you should post your question also on http://www.aerostories.org/~aeroforums/forumhist/
It's French, but you can post in English.

Regards,

Bart

Re: René de Narbonne
 

Hello all,
thanks a lot for your help, I looked at the French website. My roommate is translating it, so I hope it'll be ok. I couldn't open the forum on aerostories.org, maybe I'll try later if i needed some more information. For now I hope that the French website information could be enough.
Once again, thanks a lot :)