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Marcel Dassault (French pronunciation: [daso]; born Marcel Ferdinand Bloch; [1] 23 January 1892 – 17 April 1986) was a French engineer and industrialist who spent his career in aircraft manufacturing.
Marcel Dassault during the Paris Air Show 1979. Besides his work in aviation, newspapers and politics, Dassault was keen on architecture, cinema, banking and the stock market. His services to his country earned him France’s highest honor, the Legion of Honor’s Grand Cross. Marcel Dassault died on 17 April 1986.
Marcel Dassault (born Jan. 22, 1892, Paris, France—died April 18, 1986, Paris) was a French aircraft designer and industrialist whose companies built the most successful military aircraft in Europe in the decades after World War II.
Groupe Industriel Marcel Dassault SAS (French pronunciation:; also GIM Dassault or Dassault Group) is a French corporate group established in 1929 with the creation of Société des Avions Marcel Bloch (now Dassault Aviation) by Marcel Dassault, later led by his son Serge Dassault, and led since 2018 by co-founder of Dassault Systèmes Charles ...
In 1954, Dassault established an electronics division (by 1962 named Electronique Marcel Dassault), the first action of which was to begin the development of airborne radars, soon followed by seeker heads for air-to-air missiles, navigation, and bombing aids.
Dec 31, 2021 · Marcel Dassault, formerly Marcel Bloch, was a French electrical engineer and aircraft industrialist whose companies were responsible for some of the most iconic aircraft of the 20th Century....
Jan 22, 2022 · Marcel Dassault was born on January 22, 1892 in Paris. An aeronautical industrialist since before the Second World War, jet aviation brought him international recognition in the 1960s, notably thanks to the success of the Mirage III, Mirage IV and the Falcon family.
Aug 21, 2019 · It quickly became a world leader in the fighter plane and jets field. The “Oregon,” “Mystere,” “Super Mystere,” and of course the “Mirage” Rolls-Royce of aircraft earned Marcel Bloch a place in the pantheon of the greatest engineers in history.
Marcel Dassault had successfully created an industrial complex that encompassed both military and civil aviation, as well as electronic and information technology. To prevent nationalization, he gifted 26% of the company's shares to the French government.
His aircraft-manufacturing company, Générale Aéronautique Marcel Dassault, led the postwar revival of the French aircraft industry, producing Europe’s first supersonic plane, the Mystère, as well as the highly successful line of delta-winged military aircraft called Mirages (from 1956).
