Word: ouragan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...returned to Saint-Cloud to rebuild his factory (the aviation industry was then partially denationalized). With Marshall Plan aid he set up a modern plant. In two 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...
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