Dassault Ouragan

The Dassault M.D.450 Ouragan, French for Hurricane, is a French fighter-bomber developed and produced by Dassault Aviation. It began as a private venture by Marcel Bloch, who returned to France in March 1945 from captivity in the Buchenwald concentration camp and wanted to rebuild the French aircraft industry around an all-French jet fighter; in early 1946 he renamed himself and his company Dassault. The design used a thin wing like the Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star and a layout comparable to the North American F-86 Sabre, with a single Rolls-Royce Nene turbojet built under licence in France. The first prototype flew on 28 February 1949 with chief test pilot Kostia Rozanoff, and the first production aircraft on 5 December 1951. It was the first French-designed jet combat aircraft to enter production and was flown by France, India, Israel and El Salvador.