Max Holste, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Max Holste

French aerospace engineer

Date of Birth: 12-Sep-1913

Place of Birth: Nice, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

Date of Death: 19-Aug-1998

Profession: engineer, aerospace engineer

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Max Holste

  • Max Holste (13 September 1913 in Nice – 19 August 1998 in Toulon) was a French aeronautical engineer and founder of an aircraft manufacturer company of the same name in Reims, France (now Reims Aviation).
  • His company developed and produced many civil and military piston engine aircraft, including the famous MH-1521 Broussard.
  • He was also one of the lead engineers of the Embraer Bandeirante project.One of Hoste's aircraft early designs, the MH52, fared well in competitions; based on this success, Holste designed a high-wing radial-engined utility aircraft, which became the Broussard.
  • The company had good sales of the Broussard, due to high demand from the French military during the Algerian War; this government demand effectively prevented export of the aircraft.
  • Holste planned to improve the design, first as a twin-piston, then as a twin-turbine version, but too late: the company had been complacent with initial high demand for the Broussard but sales fell as it became outdated.
  • Holste was ruined, and his factory taken over by his associate and WWII ace Pierre Clostermann with capital from Cessna, and renamed Reims Aviation.
  • The new design eventually became the Nord 262.Holste left France for Brazil in 1964, having contacts there from Broussard sales visits.
  • Brazil's nascent aviation industry welcomed the designer as a star.
  • He fulfilled a government requirement as lead designer on the Bandeirante project, which first flew four years later.
  • Unhappy, he formed his own company, and lived in neighbouring countries for the following years.Ruined again, recently divorced, and not on speaking terms with his children, he returned to France with a South American nurse in 1995, aged 82.
  • He initially settled at Bormes-les-Mimosas, near his first wife Paule, then at Hyères; Paule described him as having 'a difficult character'.
  • He died in anonymity in 1998 and was buried in Hyères; reportedly no-one attended his burial.
  • In 2016 a commemorative service was held at Holste's grave in his honour.

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