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...forced some unfavorable economic comparisons not only with the U.S., but also with West Germany or even The Netherlands and Italy. France's showcase industries remain a pride and a strength. The Caravelle, first of the second-generation jet transports, the famous Mirage jet fighter of Marcel Dassault and the largely French-designed supersonic Concorde testify to the inventiveness of France's aeronautical industry. But for lack of more mundane skills, particularly in the important areas of engineering and middle-echelon management, French products cannot compete with Italian refrigerators and washing machines, Dutch toasters and transistors or West...
...fighter as a European counterpart to the U.S.'s swing-wing F-lll. As the British government publicly interpreted it, the move was made on "purely financial grounds," but the whole truth is that the French have already gone ahead and developed their own variable-geometry fighter, the Dassault Mirage 3G, which is due to make its maiden flight this month. Presumably undisturbed is the ambitious joint project to build the Concorde, a supersonic transport scheduled to go into commercial service in 1971. But to the British, this is less important than the now abandoned swing-wing scheme, which...
With the credit restored (and retroactive to March 10), hopes are high for a surge in sales. Pan American, U.S. distributor of France's Dassault-built Falcon, has shown its faith by signing up for 200 Falcons to date-and, says Business Jets Division Consultant David A. Anderton, "that's how many we intend to sell." Equally confident is Grumman, whose new Gulfstream II has logged 75 orders even before its first scheduled delivery, later this summer...
...owns 94 companies and a personal fortune of at least $100 million. And they know him at the bank. "There are only three of us on the Champs Elysées," Floirat says expansively, "who can sign a check at a minute's notice for $2,000,000. Dassault, the airplane maker, the Rothschilds...
...guet Aircraft, second largest French planemaker after Dassault. Floirat is under Gaullist pressure to sell Bréguet to Dassault, and will soon do so. "If I had enough money," he grumbles, "I'd buy out Dassault...