Dassault Aviation’s St-Cloud facility received an important visitor at the end of August, in the form of Mrs Alliot-Marie – the French Defence Minister. She was welcomed by the chairman and ceo of Dassault Charles Edelstenne, Serge Dassault, the vice chairman Bruno Revellin-Falcoz and the executive vice-president international Bruno Cotté.

The minister visited the Falcon 7X design office. In the ‘Virtual Reality Centre’ she attended to a 3D demo of the Falcon 7X digital model. The demo is aimed at illustrating every possibility offered by the programme and takes into account all engineering fields, from design to maintenance.