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The lack of success of the MS Paris has
not unmotivated Europeans from dis-
puting the executive market. In France,
the first successful business jet was
launched by Dassault. Its prototype has
flown in May 1963, as “Dassault-Bre-
guet Mystère 20”. The wing design
with high sweepback derived from the
transonic bomber fighter “Mystère IV”,
in the 1950s. The model that carried
14 passengers, has only arrived to the
market in 1967- at that time denomina-
ted Falcon 20. It brought many techni-
cal improvements, especially the new
turbofan GE CF700 engines. Over 500
were manufactured until 1991, provi-
ding the necessary impulse for Dassault
Falcon becoming what it is today.HS 125Charles Lindbergh gets to know the
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The British have also entered in
this new market. Pioneer in the use
of jet engines, De Havilland designed
the “DH 125 Jet Dragon” small pas-
senger jet. The first flight occurred
in the second semester of 1962. The
aircraft entered in production two
years later, already as Hawker Sidde-
ley HS-125. It was characterized by
discrete sweep back of the wings and
two Bristol Siddeley Viper turbojets
located in the lower part of the T tail.
In the most usual configuration, it
carried 8 passengers. Improved ver-
sions took over by successive manu-
facturers, including British Aerospa-
ce, Raytheon and Hawker Beechcraft,
were produced until 2013. BrazilianAir Force has used the model in
VIP transport versions.
More exotic, but without com-
mercial success, was the German
proposal. The project that begun in
1960 by the Hamburger Flugzeug-
bau manufacturer, has given origin
to the HFB 320 Hansa Jet, which is
characterized by the use of negative
swept-back wings - a design tested in
the Junkers Ju 287 experimental jet
bomber, of the end of Second World
War. With capacity to seven to 15
passengers and cruising speed above
800 kilometers per hour, the first
prototype has flown in April 1964.
Only 47 units were produced, most
of them for the German Air Force.