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Dassault Pioneer Jean-François Georges Dies at 83
Georges was passionate about aviation, mountains, and music
Jean-François Georges Dassault Aviation
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Jean-François Georges, who retired from Dassault Aviation in 2003, passed away on May 11. “He was the stitching that knitted [Falcon] operators and Dassault employees into a special family,” wrote Jean Kayanakis, senior v-p of worldwide Falcon customer service and service center network, in a tribute to Georges.

A graduate of France’s Supaero aerospace engineering school, Georges worked his entire career at Dassault, starting as a flight test engineer on the Falcon 20 in 1966. He was the architect of the first head-up display installation in an airliner while designing the flight deck in the Mercure, which became certified for Category III all-weather landings. Georges also worked on Europe’s Hermes spaceplane program.

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