Max Holste

His company developed and produced many civil and military piston engine aircraft, including the famous MH-1521 Broussard.

[3] 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but too late: the company had been complacent with initial high demand for the Broussard but sales fell as it became outdated.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.

[4] He fulfilled a government requirement as lead designer on the Bandeirante project, which first flew four years later.

[4] 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.