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A fact from SNECMA Atar Volant appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 18 May 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that, while the first model of the Atar Volant series was a simple turbojet engine, the third model was a proper coleopter, an aircraft with an annular wing that is able to land and take-off vertically without need of a runway?

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ATAR or Atar

I think you'll find that ATAR is an acronym and thus should be represented thus:- ATARPetebutt (talk) 20:51, 14 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

An extract from the SNECMA article:-

"Őstrich instead accepted the French invitation, and by September had been set up at the former Dornier factories in Rickenbach in the French Zone. Here they were soon joined by other former BMW engineers, as well as those from a number of other German firms, bringing the team to about 200 members. The group was named the Atelier Technique Aéronautique Rickenbach, or ATAR. They worked on a new design that was based on the BMW layout, but considerably larger and more powerful. They completed the preliminary design of the ATAR 101 (model R.101) in October, and granted a production contract on the proviso that actual production would be carried out in France. In January a further five year contract was offered to the entire team, including protected wages, provisions for their families, few travel restrictions, and the possibility of French citizenship. The contract was signed on 25 April 1946, and the drawings for the Atar 101 were sent to SNECMA for production."

Petebutt (talk) 20:56, 14 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Just because it was originally an acronym doesn't mean that the name didn't eventually take on a life of its own as a simple name. SAAB and EMBRAER spring immediately to mind as other names that have lost their "all caps" orthography. We need to check references to verify whether ATAR or Atar is "more correct" in this case. --Rlandmann (talk) 10:58, 17 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]