Pierre BOLLIET has passed away...

On January 4, our SA saw one of its men, Pierre BOLLIET, test pilot, EPNER promotion 1969, leave.

He made his first Concorde flight on 23/12/1970 aboard F-WTSS.

When Gilbert Defer left CEV in 1973, he replaced him as Pilot of Official Services, second to Pierre Dudal with whom the understanding was excellent.

From 1973 to 1975, he was more particularly in charge of system certification flights (Autopilot, braking, etc.) and participated in endurance flights, his last Concorde flight took place on 27/10/1978 aboard the F- WTSB.

Will total 342 hours 32 minutes of flight, performing :

130 test flights *

7 ferry flights *

23 endurance flights *

and 33 certification flights *

* Source: The small encyclopaedia of French Concorde flights

He will then be hired by Aerospatiale for the ATR program.

Photo DR.

Our thanks to André ROUAYROUX, for the information and this photo taken from the interview for the video series "Les Gens de Concorde" (People of Concorde)

On board F-WTSA, Pierre BOLLIET performed 31 flights :

Our biggest regret is not having had the chance to know him...