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Marcel Dassault
Marcel Dassault
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The father of French aviation ant! a gracIuate of that nation's first aeronautical engineering school, Dassault was the longtime director of Avions Marce!
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By 1916 he was producing them, first for the Caudron G-3 and then for the Helice Eclair, the Spad credited with giving French fliers a distinct flying advantage during World War I After World War I, Dassault set out to fulfill a dream that had begun in the courtyard of his primary school with his first glimpse of an airplane circling the Eiffel Tower.
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Dassault-Breguet Aviation to bring France to the forefront of the European manned spaceplane program. Always active in French politics, Dassault served his country for thirty years, as a Gaulist deputy and as a senator for the Union des Democrats pour la Republique.
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Yet most important, he was an inspiration, a resilient man whose courage and insight, genius and spirit served the engineering profession, his country, ant! his fellow man with extraorcti.
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