Hey Clive - nice to see you!
Originally Posted by
CliveL
Errrr no, I don't think so. Concorde's flight deck was done at Filton and we had no involvement in the Airbus designs in that area.
I was thinking more "indirectly" - in general UK/Euro flight deck layouts were more in line with improving ergonomics than those on the other side of the pond for a long time. Later work may not have been done at Filton as Concorde's was, but the Airbus folk would have been foolish in the extreme not to use the fundamental principles as a basis for that work!
Ummm - most participants reckoned that the Concorde infrastructure showed the way not to do it.
Hence the catch-all term "paved the way" - whereby lessons in how not to do it are as useful as those which were a positive example!