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5 unusual facts about Vélizy


BAT Bantam

One aircraft was delivered to the Royal Aircraft Establishment on 26 July 1918, one was delivered to the French at Villacoublay and a further aircraft to the United States Army Air Corps at Wright Field in 1922.

Bloch MB.81

The MB.80 made its first flight at the beginning of summer 1932 in Villacoublay, piloted by Zacharie Heu.

Breguet 482

Construction of the two prototypes was well progressed when Germany invaded France on 10 May 1940, and in late May it was decided to evacuate the near complete prototypes from Villacoublay near Paris, with the first prototype being sent to Bône in Algeria and the second to the Breguet factory at Anglet, near Bayonne in the far south-west of France.

SolidWorks

SolidWorks is a 3D mechanical CAD (computer-aided design) program that runs on Microsoft Windows and is being developed by Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks Corp., a subsidiary of Dassault Systèmes, S. A. (Vélizy, France).

Vélizy 2

The retail park is located in the town of Vélizy-Villacoublay in Paris and comprises more than 170 shops, services, restaurants and 4 cinema screens.


Juan Pavón

During the 10 years he worked for the company, he spent long periods in Alcatel centers outside Spain, in France (Lannion and Vélizy), Belgium (Namur and Antwerp).


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