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Abroad, the Air Force order appears to put the YF-16 well in the lead in a three-way race with the Northrop plane and France's Dassault Mirage F1-M53 for the consortium's business. Because they believe in the reliability of a twin-engine plane, the Dutch, the Danes and the Norwegians were leaning toward Northrop's YF-17. But they have said that if they buy an American fighter, they would probably choose the same one as the U.S. Air Force. Reason: unit costs would be lower. They are expected to announce a decision...
...French appeal to Continental solidarity is strongest in the case of Belgium, which has a Dassault plant that would close down if an American plane is chosen. But French influence is less powerful elsewhere; Amsterdam's public prosecutor, for example, is unhappily investigating charges that Dassault has offered cash bribes of up to $600,000 to Dutch members of Parliament to favor the Dassault plane. Lately some top French aviation officials have begun to admit privately that their once high hopes of staving off a big success by American plane salesmen in Europe this year may be-well...
Pressures and Intrigue. Initially, five planes were competing for the consortium's order. They were SEPECAT's (a British-French joint company) Jaguar, Saab-Scania's Viggen from Sweden, France's Mirage F1/M53 made by Dassault-Brequet, and two U.S. products: General Dynamics' single-engine YF-16 and Northrop's twin-engine YF-17, nicknamed the Cobra...
...Dassault Mystère 20 carrying Love Empress Elizabeth Taylor, 41, touched down at Spain's San Sebastian airport in plenty of time for the star to make the local premiere of her movie Night Watch. But there was the problem of the car: it wasn't the regulation Rolls. And then, she had to make a call to Los Angeles. Finally, she had to put on her green and gold sari to prepare herself for the adulation of her fans. But the crowd, whom she had kept waiting for 90 minutes, had other ideas. They booed, hissed...
...airbus, which is being built by a five-nation European consortium, will be the first such plane on the market; it is scheduled for commercial service next March. The other type is a STOL (for short takeoff and landing) plane for brief hops between urban airports. France's Dassault-Brequet Mercure craft should be providing STOL-type service by year's end, and no U.S.-built STOL will be available anywhere near then. Says Karl G. Harr Jr., president of the Aerospace Industries Assoc. of America: "The Europeans are developing and flying aircraft for which no U.S. counterpart...