École de l'air

The École de l'air (EA) is the military college of the French Air Force . It was founded in 1933 and is located on the Salon-de-Provence military airfield (BA 701) in the southern French town of the same name in the Bouches-du-Rhône department .

In order to be admitted to the university - as well as the École polytechnique , the École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr and the École navale - you have to a. Scientific preparatory classes ( classes préparatoires scientifiques ) are successfully completed.

Graduates of the facility receive an officer’s license and a graduate engineer .

The École de l'air is a member of the European Air Force Academies (EUAFA). There are joint training programs to maintain Franco-German relations . Exchange programs are carried out with the Air Force Officer School (OSLw) in Fürstenfeldbruck and the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich (UniBwM).

Since 2008 the school has been offering two masters specialisé (in partnership with École nationale de l'aviation civile and Institut supérieur de l'aéronautique et de l'espace ) and since 2015 a massive online open course for air defense.

Graduates

• Stéphane Abrial , Général d'armée Aérienne of the French Air Force
• Patrick Baudry , astronaut
• Jean-Loup Chrétien , astronaut
• Léopold Eyharts , French spaceman
• Romain Gary , writer
• Jean-Pierre Haigneré , astronaut
• Michel Tognini , astronaut

Web links

Commons : École de l'air  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the École de l'air (French)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ EURYDICE / CEDEFOP / European Commission: Structures of education and training in the European Union . 2nd edition, Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, Brussels u. a. 1995, ISBN 92-826-9318-X , p. 206.
2. ↑ Sven Bernhard Gareis : Introduction: Germany and France - the spearhead of the common defense of Europe? . In: Nina Leonhard , Sven Bernhard Gareis (Ed.): Marching together. Franco-German armed forces cooperation as a paradigm for European armed forces? (= Series of publications by the Social Science Institute of the Bundeswehr . Vol. 5). VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-531-15715-3 , p. 35.
3. ↑ Michael Gutbier (responsible editor): WGLS, Defense History Teaching Collection, Air Force Officer School. Documentation of the exhibition . Edited by the Air Force Officer School, Fürstenfeldbruck 2011, p. 153.
4. ↑ Partner universities: École de l'Air , website of the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich, accessed on November 9, 2015.
5. ↑ MS Aviation Safety Aircraft Airworthiness ( Memento from January 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ MS Aerospace Project Management ( Memento from January 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
7. ↑ Un cours de l'école de l'Air en ligne.