Breguet Taon

The Bréguet Br.1001 Taon was a prototype single-seat jet strike fighter aircraft designed and built by the French aircraft manufacturer Bréguet. Its name meant Gadfly in English, but was also an anagram of NATO or the French version OTAN) The development of the Taon was started in response to the issuing of NATO Basic Military Requirement 1 in 1953. It was a compact monoplane that conformed to the area rule; while sharing some similarities with the Bréguet 1100, the Taon was both shorter and narrower. During 1955, NATO officials announced that the Taon was the front-running submission, leading to an initial order for three aircraft for evaluation purposes. The maiden flight of the type was performed on 26 July 1957. Months later, it underwent competitive evaluation flights against the Fiat G.91 and the Dassault Mystère XXVI, after which the G.91 was declared to be the winner. Ultimately, no operator placed a production order for the type. Despite this outcome, the Taon went on to set two international speed records during 1958. A total of two aircraft were produced prior to development being halted.

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