“I don't want to stay on the ground, but to fly away in these wonderful machines,”
he hammered at the Air School.
While Olivier Dassault was suffering from air sickness, his captain wanted to convince him that he could be a soldier without flying.
Inconceivable for him.
And
"a Dassault never gives up!"
Aviation had become like second nature to the man who later distinguished himself as the only pilot qualified on all Falcon models, setting world speed records.
The only Dassault to steal was not his slightest pride.
If he was suspicious of helicopters, Olivier Dassault had, on several occasions, undertaken to train on these devices which save time.
He died in flight, like an actor dies on stage.
Grandson of Marcel Dassault, the founder of the empire, and son of CEO Serge Dassault, who died in 2018, the eldest of the heirs, brother of Laurent, Thierry and Marie-Hélène, should have celebrated his 70th birthday on June 1 .
An existence
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