1.   Bedie was flown to Togo on Sunday on a French military aircraft, and the French government said he would be welcome here.

2.   Besides Alcatel and Lagardere, Dassault Aviation SA and Aerospatiale, two French aircraft makers that are about to merge, have been named potential buyers of Thomson.

3.   Besides Alcatel, Dassault Aviation SA and Aerospatiale, two French aircraft makers that are about to merge, have been named potential buyers of Thomson.

4.   During World War I, Dunand developed a process of lacquering wooden propellers on French aircraft that helped reduce the problem of blades shattering in flight.

5.   Starck, whose father worked as a designer in the French aircraft industry, chose cast aluminum to create this extraordinary form.

6.   This helps explain why French corporate aircraft ownership is more than double that of Britain.

7.   Rakhmonov told Russian television Tuesday that U.S. and French combat aircraft would be allowed to use the airfield.

8.   A French aircraft arrived at Pristina airport in the early afternoon, presumably to fly them out.

9.   A French aircraft flying over the apparent crash site Sunday night picked up a faint distress signal which may have come from an automatic emergency beacon.

10.   A French aircraft was shot down by Serb air defenses near the Bosnian Serb stronghold, Pale, a U.S. administration official said.