Word: myst
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rambling along the Gaza strip last week on a Moslem holiday tour of army bases and refugee camps, Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser heard a radio bulletin: the U.S. had approved a French shipment to Israel of twelve Mystère jet fighters out of its NATO stocks. Egypt's soldier-strongman blew up: the French jets, added to a dozen Mystères and 24 Ouragan jets already shipped, would undo much of the advantage Egypt had gained by buying Soviet-bloc arms...
...midnight Nasser knew by telephone from his Paris embassy that the Mystère report was correct. All next day he thundered in speech after speech to his soldiers about "the West's continuing conspiracy," without attacking the U.S. by name. He announced the formation of a "huge" Palestinian army inside the Egyptian army, recruited among the 220,000 Palestinian refugees in Gaza. Back in Cairo, 38-year-old Premier Nasser cried dramatically: "I have witnessed a turning point in the Middle East...
...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 off his latest marvel, the Mirage, a lightweight, 1,000-m.p.h. interceptor...
...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...
...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 the F-84 and Russia's MIG-15, and from France, NATO, Israel and India came orders for more than 600 of the Mystère series. With 4,500 aircraft workers on his own payroll...