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Center of attraction at Britain's Farnborough air show last week was none of the fast new aircraft roaring overhead but an 11-ft. groundling: the first publicly displayed model of the 100-passenger, Mach 2.2 Super Caravelle that British Aircraft Corp. and France's Sud Aviation propose to build jointly. Though design of the delta-wing plane is completed and current plans call for flight tests in 1966, final approval of the project is yet to come from the British and French governments...
...neighborhood of $560 million. Some British planemakers say that the money would be better spent increasing the all-weather reliability of existing subsonic aircraft. But with U.S. planemakers working toward a Mach 3 airliner and Russian competition in supersonic air transport only a matter of time, BAG and Sud Aviation argue that the Super Caravelle is needed to assure Europe a continuing role in the long-haul civil aviation industry...
...Thursday's Brattle Street Forum, as the panel made predictions as to the future of French politics and the relations of France and Germany. Moderated by Samuel Beer, professor of government at Harvard, the panel included a Frenchman, Paul Fabra of Le Monde; a German Gunter Gaus, editor of Sud Deutsche Zettung: as well as Nicholas Wahl, assistant professor of government, Harvard; and Roy Macridis, professor of political science, Washington University...
...Late last month, mercurial Planemaker Georges Hereil, 53, father of the Caravelle jetliner, walked out as president of France's nationalized Sud Aviation In disgust over government interference with his plans. To succeed him as boss of the Continent's biggest aircraft producer, the government last week chose Air Force General André Puget, 51, recently eased out as chief of the French General Staff for his foot dragging over De Gaulle's Algerian policy. It will not be smooth going at Sud Aviation either for Puget, a quiet, amiable St.-Cyr graduate. Though Sud Aviation made...
...only other jet maker in reasonably healthy shape is France's Sud-Aviation, which has already sold or contracted to sell 150 of its medium-range Caravelles and. with the aid of a husky government subsidy, should hit break-even well short of 200. Even subsidies have not turned the trick for Britain's jet manufacturers. De Havilland, which led the world with the original, ill-starred Comet, has sold only 63 of the redesigned Comet IVs. has scant hope of reaching its estimated break-even point of 80-90 sales. Vickers, which hopes to have its long...