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    Marcel Doret and the D.27 (1933)
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    Constantine, 1934
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Marcel Doret

Paris 18, 3 May1896 - † Vernet (France), 31 Augustus 1955

Louis Marcel Germain Doret, known as Marcel Doret was a French aviator and test pilot.

Test Pilot

Marcel Doret started his career in 1910 as an apprentice mechanic. He committed himself at the age of 18, at the beginning of the Great War in artillery and fought in Verdun. He is wounded three years later and awarded the military medal. Once healed, he asks for transfer into the aviation and joins the Dijon then Chartres bases. Flying solo after less than two hours in dual command, he gets his military pilot license in 1918, at the age of twenty-two, and starts training at the Pau fighter and acrobatics school after a Short passage in Avord. At the end of the war, Doret starts working for Renault, but Emile Dewoitine notices him in an air show, and on June 1, 1923, he is hired as a test pilot for the Toulouse factory, where he quickly becomes chief test pilot. In 1939, he has already participated in the development of forty-three different prototypes, and his flying experience is at its top. Transport aircraft, like the D.332 Emeraude, are also produced, and it is often necessary to convoy those to distant countries and in doing this, Doret becomes one of the first long haul pilots.

Raid Pilot

Doret won eighteen international records, including that one of distance in closed circuit. From 7 to 10 June 1931, he flew for more than 10,000 km with the Dewoitine D.33 "Trait d'Union" , with teammates Joseph-Marie Le Brix and René Mesmin. In a new straight line record flight attempt, they crashed in trees in Siberia, having experienced engine icing. The plane was destroyed, but the crew was unharmed. The second prototype takes off from Paris on September 11, 1931, with the objective of landing in Tokyo. On the morning of the 12th, the aircraft is caught in bad weather and crashes in the Ural mountains. Doret is the only survivor, as Brix and Mesmin could not jump in parachute.

In 1937, Doret attempted twice the Paris to Tokyo raid with a Caudron Simoun, with Jérôme Micheletti. The first time, they had to stop in Hanoi, and in the second attempt, they got lost and had to crash-land on a beach of the Kochi island, 500 km from their goal.

Aerobatics Pilot

Very early in his career, Marcel Doret began practicing aerobatics with his striated red wings Dewoitine D.27, that soon became legendary. His meetings duels with other champions, like Michel Détroyat, attracted immense crowds.

Each pilot usually competes with the aircraft of the manufacturer he represents. Marcel Doret then flew a series Dewoitine fighter, equipped with a 300 hp Hispano-Suiza engine.

On August 21, 1927, he finished third in the Dubendorf international aerobatic competition near Zurich, behind German ace Gerhard Fieseler. Following this day, the best pilots propose a new type of aerial event, more equitable, which allows the pure talent of the pilot to express himself by freeing himself from the possible weaknesses of his own plane. The idea is simple. The palm of the best pilot will return to the one who imposes himself with the plane of his opponents. At the end of an epic duel with German ace Fieseler, Marcel Doret is sacred "King of the Air" and his celebrity is at its peak. His name is acclaimed by more than one hundred thousand spectators on the grounds of Tempelhof, at the gate of Berlin, testifying to the Franco-German friendship of the pre-war period.

During the aviation festival organized in Vincennes, near Paris, on April 25, 1937, the people are so impressed by his virtuosity that they elect Marcel Doret winner of the Cup with 11,489 ballot, against only 6,402 for his more immediate competitor (Aero Review of 30 April 1937).

After a few malicious press articles, and to maintain his aura with the public, in 1937, he becomes a glider pilot, just to win some aerobatics championships.

War Pilot

In 1944, Marcel Doret took command of the 1st FFI group, known as "Groupe Doret" (composed of two squadrons commanded by Leopold Galy and Cliquet), formed with D.520s taken over from the occupation troops who had requisitioned the Dewoitine factory, to attack the Germans in the vicinity of Bordeaux and Royan. The Doret Group was then incorporated into the Saintonge Group, where it remained until 1946.

After the war

After the war, Doret devoted himself to aerial meetings and demonstrations. He then had more than 6,000 flight hours. Commander of the Legion of Honor, Marcel Doret died in 1955 of cancer in his secondary residence of Le Vernet (France), after having published his memories: "Trait d'Union avec le Ciel" ("Hyphen with the sky"). Marcel Doret is buried in the cemetery of Boulogne-Billancourt, city where he resided with his wife.

Bibliography

Marcel Doret, Trait d'Union avec le ciel, éditions France-Empire, Paris, 1954.

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