Yes, there were two TV series (one in the sixties, one in the eighties, if memory serves) based on the original comics. One of the sixties' episodes is famous because they filmed the "touch-roll-touch" of a F-104G Starfighter of the Belgian Air Force: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyBDEG9dg-Q

Unfortunately, Sus Jacobs, one of the two Belgian pilots who performed these stunts on a semi-regular basis (the other was "Bill" Ongena) was killed in a subsequent demonstration...


Le mercredi 22 avril 2020 09:30:05 UTC+2, Kevin Neave a écritÂ*:
Pretty sure there was something along the lines of this on TV during the
school holidays (Mid-Late 70s UK)


At 18:53 19 April 2020, stephanevdv wrote:
My vote goes to "Les Chevaliers du Ciel" ("Sky Fighters" in the English
ver=
sion), a 2005 film by G=C3=A9rard Pir=C3=A8s. Very good airplane scenes,

The picture was based on a comics series, "Tanguy et Laverdure", more or
less the French equivalent of "Steve Canyon". But for reasons unknown, the
principal characters were changed, and their replacements were very dull,
the actors below average. "Tanguy et Laverdure" without Tanguy nor
Laverdure..=
..=20

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_Fighters