Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “For an aircraft to fly well, it must be beautiful.” There’s something very French about that statement, and indeed, it came from ...

A Falcon 900B with aftermarket Aviation Partners Inc. winglets from the legacy fleet introduced in the late 1980s. Credit: Nigel Prevett/Aviation Week First delivered in 1986, the Dassault Falcon 900 ...

The first Mystère 20 took off from an airport in Bordeaux, marking the company’s entry into the fledgling business-jet market. Test pilots René Bigand and Jean Dilliare “gave it the gas,” as one ...