The French Connection (aerobatics)

The French Connection was a famous husband-wife aerobatic pair that performed in countless airshows throughout North America for almost 30 years.

The pair consisted of Daniel Héligoin, a former French Air Force fighter pilot and aerobatic champion, and Montaine Mallet, an aeronautical engineer and his assistant who later became his wife.

Their favorite and signature 'French Connection' aerobatic routine was unique: Montaine and Daniel would fly their CAP-10 planes in an extremely tight canopy-to-canopy formation, literally inches apart, through various hair-raising aerobatic maneuvers.

Daniel and Montaine loved to teach, and they devoted much of their careers to aerobatic instruction.

The "French Connection Scholarship" fund was established in their name via the International Council of Air Shows Foundation.