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...LIFT ENGINES: In yet another approach to the problem, France's Dassault Mirage III-V will pack eight small Rolls-Royce jet engines thrusting downward. When well in the air, a larger jet will take over and push the plane forward at supersonic speed. Its designers admit that the vertical engines will be dead cargo most of the time, but they think vertical engines will have less effect on performance than dual-purpose engines that are too powerful for efficient horizontal flight. A German V/STOL, the Bölkow, Heinkel and Messerschmitt VJ-101C, varies the French formula slightly...
...after another, U.S. airlines are ordering jets from European planemakers. Last week it was Pan American, which placed a hefty order for 160 French Dassault ten-passenger Mystere 20s at $775,000 each. Pan Am plans to sell (and maybe lease) the twin-engined executive jets to corporations and individuals in the U.S. and Canada. The purchase is one more blow to U.S. airframe makers, who are feeling the in creasing pressure of aggressive competition from European planemakers...
...American Airlines three years ago suggested that it would like a short-range jet. While U.S. airframe companies stalled, British Aircraft, which had the One-Eleven on its drawing boards, built in the features that American wanted-with no promise of an order. Just to please Customer Pan Am, Dassault willingly redesigned its Mystère 20* to make it larger and switched to General Electric turbofan jet engines. If such aggressiveness continues and U.S. framemakers offer no better fight, the U.S. could be toppled from the position of planemaker to the world, which it has held ever since...
...Named to take advantage of the reputation of Dassault's well known military jets...
Despite the sorry sales record, the planemakers are gamely pushing ahead. Besides Lockheed, corporate jets are being built by North American, Aero Commander and Lear. Britain's entry is the De Havilland DH-125. France's Dassault plans to introduce its twin-jet Mystère 20 in the spring; Hamburger Flugzeugbau is making a six-passenger plane; and Italy's Piaggio, maker of the famed Vespa motor scooter, has teamed up with Douglas Aircraft to build the PD-808, known as the "Vespa...