The Aeronauts was a French children's TV series about two fighter jet pilots in French Air Force, Michel Tanguy (Jacques Santi) and Ernest Laverdure (Christian Marin) and their adventures.
[1] It was based on a comic book series by Jean-Michel Charlier and Albert Uderzo titled Tanguy et Laverdure.
Made by French production company Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française (ORTF) between 1967 and 1970, its original French title was Les chevaliers du ciel ("The Knights of the Sky").
It was dubbed into English, retitled The Aeronauts and shown by the BBC on UK children's TV, in Canada on the CBC, and in Australia on the ABC in the early 1970s.
In 1976 a version dubbed into Afrikaans and titled Mirage, was shown by the SABC in South Africa.