Word: dassault
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...child in Paris half a century ago, Marcel Dassault read science fiction and daydreamed that he would some day be a great inventor, turning his ideas into mechanical marvels that would bring glory to France. Unlike most daydreamers, Dassault was equipped with the talent and drive to turn fantasy into reality. At 23, only two years out of aeronautical school, he designed the propeller for the famed Spad fighter of World War I. At 60 he designed and built France's first topflight jet fighter, the sweptwing, transonic Mystère. Last week Dassault, now 64, showed...
...delta-wing Mirage is powered by two 2, 300-lb.-thrust Viper engines, designed by Armstrong Siddeley and made by Dassault. The plane carries a rocket with 3,500-lb. thrust for extra bursts of speed, can take off or land in less than 1,000 yards. It weighs less than five tons (v. eight tons for the Mystère), but it is sturdy enough to operate out of rough fields. The Mirage has a price tag of $300,000, about two-thirds the cost of the Myst...
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...
...took turns flying the Mystere over Marignane, France, checking its airspeed system by flying it alongside F-86 Sabres. "An excellent interceptor," they concluded, and recommended that the French put it into production. The Mystère will begin coming off assembly lines next month at Bordeaux's Dassault Aircraft plant. Target: a plane a day by the end of the year...
...modern military aircraft, the government has done little or nothing about getting them into production. ¶ France's chief fighter plane, the British-designed Vampire 5, now in production at a "normal rate," is obsolete. ¶ France's only up-to-date fighter plane, the Marcel Dassault 450, exists only in prototype form, will not be mass-produced until 1952. ¶ France has no bombers, has made no decisions about building any. ¶The government is less interested in military necessity than in coddling the aircraft industry, which has deliberately confused its bookkeeping to block sound checks...