André Turcat: the test pilot who took Concorde supersonic

January 7, 2016

Herve Morvan, University of Nottingham Last year it was reported that a design for a successor to Concorde, which would fly between London and New York in one hour at more than 4.5 times the speed of sound, had been patented by Airbus. This would have been thrilling news to French test pilot André Turcat, …