Originally Posted by
peekay4
Chief Test Pilot for A320 development was Pierre Baud.
Chief of Engineering was Bernard Ziegler.
That's for the company in general. I'm talking about the roles on the project itself, not the time period.
Baud and Ziegler were both "Veeps" (i.e. senior company vice presidents of flight division and engineering). They'd chair meetings and take the thing up on marquee flights, such as...
The A320 first flight ... piloted by Pierre Baud, and co-piloted by Bernard Ziegler. Gordon Corps was the observer.
...but they wouldn't be the people doing the actual day-to-day work of engineering the systems and ironing out the bugs, as I said. Gordon Corps was the one with the real in-depth knowledge and understanding of the systems.