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...French, who normally like to go it alone, are the most aggressive joint-effort boosters. This year the Transall, a German-French military-cargo plane, is to go into service. The Breguet 1150 antisubmarine aircraft, produced by France, Germany, Belgium and Holland, is also being delivered. A FrancoBritish combine has announced plans to build a supersonic Jaguar fighter. And France and Britain are thinking of spending $2 billion for a twin-engined variable-geometry fighter to compete with...
...objective in the decisive event was to fly over the Dauphiné Alps to Toulon, some 250 miles south, on the Mediterranean. Paul and his borrowed French Breguet-901 were towed aloft by a powered biplane, released at about 2,500 ft. With the rest of the pack he circled the field and eased gently toward the Alps. Mt. Ventoux (6,011 ft.) separated the men from the boys; many contestants turned back. To Paul, the problem seemed familiar-it was no tougher than soaring along the lee side of the Sierra Nevadas back home, where he had once reached...
Chopsticks & Champagne. To expand and modernize the line, Hymans spent $53 million on new Lockheed Constellations. Vickers Viscount turboprops, lumbering Breguet transports for 106-passenger coach flights. He and his operating chiefs are fanatics on safety, have suffered no fatal crashes since 1953. All Air France's first pilots are million-mile men, are paid up to $15,400 a year (more than the President of the Republic). Every mechanic is winnowed through a special four-year course, gets three more years of on-the-job training...
Died. Louis C. Breguet, 75, French airplane manufacturer who in 1908, less than five years after the Wright Brothers' flight at Kitty Hawk, constructed and ascended in a crude apparatus that he called a gyroplane, a forerunner of the helicopter; of a heart attack; in Paris. A topflight builder of World War I military aircraft, Breguet was once scoffed at for predicting that airplanes would fly at 650 m.p.h...
...planes a year of all types are being manufactured. But the future looks brighter. NATO has ordered $86 million worth of Mystère IV interceptors; the U.S. has placed $30 million in offshore contracts for Republic Thunderjet and Thunderstreak air frames, and the British are trying out the Breguet doubledecker 117-passenger transports...