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Sud-Est built a line of aircraft including a passenger airliner, the Languedoc , and a Fighter , the Vampire . The Vampire was a British De Havilland design built under license, locally designated as the Mistral . Looking to break out of their limited licensing-based market, in 1951 Sud-Est started the design of a new jet-powered airliner which would eventually evolve into the Caravelle . The Caravelle used British engines and the nose and tail design from the De Havilland Comet , but was otherwise a new design. One pioneering feature was the mounting of the engines at the rear fuselage, thereby reducing cabin noise. Production started in 1958, by which time the market-leading Comet had suffered a series of in-air breakups and had been withdrawn from service. The Caravelle did not suffer this design flaw and thus remained the only production jet design in the mid-range market until the launch of the Douglas DC-9 , securing a very successful career with sales all over Europe and even 20 in the United States. At this point the merger with Sud-Ouest occurred to form Sud Aviation. The new firm then started on the design of a Supersonic Transport version of the Caravelle , known as the Super-Caravelle . However, the projected cost of the project was so high that Sud Aviation, at the direction of the French and British governments, formed a consortium with BAC in November 1962 to merge their design and production efforts to create the Concorde . Sud Aviation merged with Nord Aviation in 1970 to form the Aérospatiale company. Aérospatiale formed several large-scale international consortia, e.g., with British Aerospace and Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm to form Airbus , and ultimately merged into European aerospace company EADS in 2000 . PRESIDENTS
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