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Aviation History
1951
1951 - 1230.PDF
FLIGHT, 29 June 1951 ft* REPORT FROM PARIS Notes, News and Pictures from the Grand Palais Portrayed on Aeronautical Salo Illustrated by "Flight" Photographs left is M. Andre Granet, the organizing secretary-general of the international general view of which heodsJbe. page-.-Mm is the Aerojet Aerobee high-altitude research rocket—a striking American exhibit. .HOUGH—as will have been gathered from our preliminary report last week—there are relatively few new aircraft on display in the 19th International Aeronautical Salon, there is a good deal to be learned about developments and projects in various fields. A number of absentees from the Grand Palais will be seen at Le Bourget airfield between June 22nd and July ist—the period of the final display. In the Salon there is much conjecture as to the future of the French aircraft industry, and the following outline of its present status is therefore timely. The airframe and engine industry at present employs about 38,000 people and comprises three nationalized companies, one State company, and nineteen private companies. Most of these are members of a trade association equivalent to the S.B.A.C. and styled Union Syndicate des Industries Aeronautiques. One of the original four nationalized companies—the S.N.C.A.C. (Centre)—was dissolved last year. The following types of aircraft are now in production, the quantity on order being specified, where known, in parenthesis : S.N.C.A.S.E. Armagnac transport (15); Breguet Deux Ponts four-engined freighter (is); Nord 2501 freighter (160); Dassault Ouragan-jct fighter (150); S.N.C.A.S.E. Vampire and Mistral jet fighters (exact quantities not known); M.B.175 medium bomber (80 approx.); S.0.30P twin-engined amphibian (40); S.I.P.A.901 tourer/trainer (100); N.C.853 tourer/trainer (100); S.C.A.N. 20 seaplane trainer (25). Certain new military and civil aircraft are referred to in the notes which follow.
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