July 5, 1979: Death, at the age of 87, of the French aeronautical engineer Emile Dewoitine.
During his long career, he had built aircrafts with particularly brilliant performance, notably the Dewoitine 520 fighter which, in 1940, was to oppose advantageously his Italian and German adversaries.
In November 1942, under the colors of #Vichy, the Dewoitine 520 routed the American and English fighters who had come to support the Allied landing in Algeria.
After the war, Emile Dewoitine, who had chosen to support Marshal Pétain's governement, built in Argentina one of the very first jet fighters in the world, the Pulqui 1.
