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Old 3rd Jan 2013, 19:30
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@jcj - Precisely. High level concepts, not implementation detail.

Originally Posted by jcjeant
It is a wonder why Airbus (and many stakeholders in the world of civil aviation) has always put forward (publicly) the role of BZ and not that of the famous test pilot and technical advisor
There's an annual lecture in the latter's name at the Toulouse Branch of the RAES. From what I'm told he wasn't much for self-aggrandisement - the same cannot be said of BZ.

Toulouse Branch Gordon Corps lecture | Branches | The Royal Aeronautical Society

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