EXAMS AND ME : Marcel Bloch To Dassault Aviation

Wednesday 6 June 2018

Marcel Bloch To Dassault Aviation

Bloch was born on 22 January 1892 in Paris. Both of his parents were Jewish.

He was educated in Paris.

Dassault and MiG Aircraft Series

Bloch was classmates with a Russian student named Mikhail Gurevich who would later be instrumental in the creating of the MiG Aircraft Series.

Mikhail was a Soviet Jewish aircraft designer, with a partner (with Artem Mikoyan) who co-founded the famous MiG military aviation bureau.

Marcel Dassault

Marcel deported to Buchenwald for refusing to collaborate with German Aviation

Marcel Bloch in a Concentration Camp

After the war Dassault built the foremost French military aircraft manufacturer

Besides being the French Air Force’s first jet aircraft, the MD-450 Ouragan (1949) pioneered the French postwar aeronautical industry’s steps into the export market (selling in India and Israel). The Mystère IV (1954) earned endorsement for the company’s expertise when the United States ordered 225 planes as part of an agreement with NATO.

The 1967 Six Day War between Israel and its neighboring Arab nations provided conclusive evidence of the quality of Dassault aircraft. Other initiatives, like taking part in France’s efforts to develop strategic nuclear power after the 1956 Suez expedition through the Mirage IV program (1959), were later to further cement Marcel Dassault’s prominence.

.As founder of the Dassault-Breguet Compnay, his name came to be known around the world for outstanding jet-powered aircraft, through the 1950s and 1960s.

Dassault’s aircraft also held much interest for civil aircraft commercial planes in Europe, America, China, Israel and Arab nations.

Besides his work in aviation, newspapers and politics, he was into architecture, cinema, banking and the stock market. For his services to his country, he was awarded France’s highest honor, the Legion of Honor’s Grand Cross. He died at age 94 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.