CONF iture :
Has he devoted a chapter to tell his own remarkable feat of arms ?
No the book starts in 1967, His " Valee blanche " exploits are not mentioned .
When I first met him in 1972 he was giving a lecture to us in Toulouse and introduced himself lke this (from memory ) Hi, Your remember the jet that cut the cable in valee Blanche doing low level, > It was me... Now I am head of flight testing Airbus... In those days he was impressive .
In the book he describes many interesting annecdotes unknown (to me at least) like the first in flight presentation of the A300 in le Bourget in 1973:
Just after take off in front of the officials there is a fire in the cabin. " What to do, : At his first public appearance the A300 gets on fire ? No , I pull the column and started to do the "circus" presentation. What else to do ? The F/E managed to control the fire, and when we landed there was smoke but no more fire..." ( page 132)