PC. Improve the Dassault Mercure.

WILDGEESE

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With a post 1960 pod, what redesigns and improvements would you implement to the Dassault Mercure so it takes half the Boeing 737 market in Europe.

Bonus points if you design a larger version so it also takes sales off the Boeing 727.

Regards filers.
 
First Dassault Mercure was victim of bad timing
Program star in 1967, the Aircraft was ready in 1973 in middle of Oil crisis

second the Mercure 100 range was to low with 1,700 km while 2,200 km was the airlines wanted.
Dassault try correct that with Mercure 200C in cooperation with french government for Air France
but with poor sale of Mercure 100 of only 11 planes the french government terminated the Mercure 200C project
then Dassault try to build Mercure 200 in cooperation with US aerospace firms like Lockheed or with General Dynamics, nothing became of it.

in mean time Airbus take form and build there A300...
 
The answer is simple: get the Dassault Mercure 200 powered by two CFM International CFM56 engines into production. By 1980, the first prototypes are flying, and by 1985 the Mercure 200 is in service with Air France, Air Inter, Sabena, KLM, Iberia, TAP, Alitalia and even Lufthansa as Europe's primary single-aisle jet. With the Mercure 200 in production, even British Airways will buy them to replace the aging BAe Tridents.
 
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