Pierre Satre

Pierre Satre (4 May 1909 – 12 July 1980) was a French engineer, and the chief designer of the Anglo-French Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde.[1]

Early life

He was born in Grenoble in south-east France, in the region of Rhône-Alpes.

Concorde at the Aeroscopia museum in Blagnac (Toulouse) in April 2015

Career

Sud Aviation

He became the Technical Director of Sud Aviation in Toulouse, in the Midi-Pyrénées region, working with Lucien Servanty.

Concorde

He became the Chief Designer of Concorde.[2] Experiments for the new aircraft were carried out on the 1950s supersonic Dassault Mirage III, and later the 1960s Dassault Mirage IV.

Personal life

He died aged 71 on 12 July 1980. He received the Silver Medal of the Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS). He received the French Legion of Honour (Légion d'honneur). He was awarded the FAI Gold Air Medal in 1959.

gollark: The last one was at someone's house, but the VR thing was some sort of "lab" environment with lots of random things in it, I don't remember much.
gollark: Google Cardboard (obviously not very high quality but at least vaguely cool), some racing game in a science museum some years back when it was still newer and shinier, and I think last year some kind of VR "lab" thing on some fancier VR setup.
gollark: Mostly various tech demos, honestly?
gollark: Personally, I still prefer flatscreen interfaces to VR.
gollark: Hmm, apparently there's competition now in extremely fast `grep` implementations.

See also

References
  1. E&T Magazine April 2011 Archived 6 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  2. Flight International February 1966
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