Mach Boom. Mirage IV (FAS)
There was a lot of training area around.

“Kill”? or try to influence a major partner to join them on a costly project? C’mon John Hollow le Carré, using both words “Kill and “CIA” in the same sentence on the internet sounds rather a free call to the conspirationist, would you agree?

The french word used in the Challenge report, citing the Financial Times, is “Pression” = putting pressure on someone. That’s a strong words but still another thing.

Le Financial Times est revenu jeudi 20 juillet sur les pressions de la CIA sur le projet du Concorde à travers la publication de documents déclassifiés.

Edit:
Obviously nothing against John Le Carre that stand as a master author in the espionage genre.

there were playing with CG and lift vector… on the low speed, small scale model… stating that they learned something. In other words, they are far from anything like starting an aircraft project.

@Sintra:
I like that one :

Neither the Wright Brothers, Santos Dumont or Elon Musk received that particular memo. And i have my doubts that the Douglas Aircraft Company had received that same memo in 1932/33 when they decided to design the DC-1.
[…]
And the military got aeroplanes because chaps like a pair of American Bycicle makers, a Brasilian Coffee Grower or a French engineer decided to break the technological edge on their own expenses.

Well, Bleriot did get to work with Louis Bechereau, that use to work with Deperdussin (the record plane manufacturer from the same name and originally a fine lingerie maker. Before that Béchereau had worked with Clément Ader that didn’t let him much initiatives (Béchereau was a specialist in monocoques structures) and will later work with Bleriot building the famous line of SPAD. So, in effect, the “French engineer” would be more represented by the friend of a panties maker* 😉

*History has enough fun to to make use of it!
** To me, Béchereau is the finest french engineer of that era, the only one at the same level of the Wright brothers. It’s a disgrace that his name still remains largely unknown.

What would you have expected? Airbus management press stuffs are like dating adds on a porn website…

Regarding your comment: Concorde’mission still stand as a valid one. The plane was a trick, that’s it.

true. But you get the idea.
The 707, DC8, 880 etc… were not subsidized. To the point that failure on the civilian market precipitated the fall of some well established defense giants.
It was one thing to help SNACSE to build the Caravelle at a time when the design bureau were all raising from the ashes of WWII. Directly financing an aircraft that costed far beyond anything seen before (to achieve the set of performances required) knowing that it will never reach anything like a sustainable economical model was a direct cutout from an exemplary model: it was an anachronism, a beautiful and fast like hell anachronism, but something that cut the aviation industry from their natural goal: flying masses farther and faster more economically.

Think about that, who would have invested for a Mach 1.2/1.6 aircraft before the Concorde were even towed back to the hangar for the last time? None.

Cargo plane carrying French army personnel crashed in Ivory: 4 dead

Security guards on site said the plane was carrying material for the French army. It was unclear how many people were inside the plane.

The plane wreckage, broken into pieces, was scattered in the shallow waters.

Paris confirmed the death of 4 from Moldavia and 4 injured Fr personnel. Photo on the BBC website suggest an An-24

EDIT:
Crashed during landing phase. An26-100 registered RA-26556, Built in 1975 (“le mardi 30 septembre 1975′) registration nbr 57303204. 42 years in service. Registered in Moldova in 2005. Afreted by the Fr army (special cargo).

Sources:
https://www.fratmat.info/index.php/nos-unes/crash-d-avion-a-abidjan-l-anac-nomme-une-enquetrice-en-chef-et-fait-des-precisions
https://www.journalducameroun.com/crash-dun-avion-a-abidjan-lantonov-de-fabrication-sovietique-totalisait-42-ans-dexploitation/

look like he fainted. doesn’t seems to have any late input on the ctrl… Sad. Let’s hope family was not seating on the ramp.