Word: dassault
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government decides not to wait out that slim prospect, the R.C.A.F. is ready with three choices of aircraft, narrowed from an international list: Grumman's F11F-1F Super Tiger, Republic's F-105 Thunderchief and France's Dassault Mirage III. Whatever the choice, Ottawa would insist that Toronto's idle Avro plant be licensed to make it in Canada...
LEADING CONTENDER for $500 million supersonic fighter contract for 300 jets for West German air force is Lockheed's needle-nosed F-104 Starfighter, with Grumman's swept-wing Tiger and France's delta-wing Dassault Mirage close behind. Germans turned down Britain's experimental Saunders...
Paris to Buchenwald. Dassault, the son of a Paris physician, studied at France's top technical schools. He sold his first propeller design to the War Ministry, and set up a small aircraft factory. Even after France nationalized its aviation industry in 1936, he was permitted to keep a small plant at Saint-Cloud, where he turned out variable-pitch propellers until France fell in World War II. Because he was a Jew and refused to make aircraft parts for the Nazis, he was arrested and eventually taken to Buchenwald...
Broken in health by 1945, Dassault nevertheless returned to Saint-Cloud to rebuild his factory (the aviation industry was then partially denationalized). With Marshall Plan aid he set up a modern plant. In two years he turned out 300 twin-engine Flamant passenger planes for the French air force and navy. Next he turned out the Ouragan (hurricane) jet fighter, landed a French air force order for 350, and began building the first of five new factories. When he brought out the Mystère (TIME, March 17, 1952), U.S. Air Force officers classed it with...
Politics & Housing. Being boss and sole owner of the nation's biggest privately owned aircraft company did not satisfy Planemaker Dassault. He turned to politics and was elected as a Gaullist Deputy from the Alpes-Maritimes department, served until he was defeated by a Socialist in last January's elections. As a Deputy, Dassault proposed to the National Assembly that he solve France's critical housing shortage by mass-producing prefabricated, low-cost ($5,000) homes, to be financed with 80% mortgage loans from the government. Though "Maisons Dassault" settlements sprang up in his own constituency, French...