Andre Turcat

Andre Turcat , born the October 23rd 1921, is graduate Polytechnic school, arts doctor, free professor of history of the Christian art, founder of the national Academy of the air and space, holder of several aeronautical records and old European Député.

It joined the Free French Forces of the Air towards the end of the Second world war.

Pilot in the Air force, it quickly becomes Test pilot S, initially with the Flight test center, then at the manufacturers. He puts in flight various prototype and takes down several world records before joining, in 1962, South-Aviation to devote itself to Caravelle, then with Concorde.

Turcat is especially known general public to have been the test pilot of the Concorde: it is indeed Turcat which was with the orders of the first prototype of Concorde, when it took off Toulouse on March 2nd 1969. It still controlled the Harmony when this one exceeded the wall of the sound on October 1st, 1969.

It is at the origin of the creation of the national Académie of the air and the space (ANAE) in 1983, of which he was founding member and president. The Academy since 2007 is called Académie of the Air and Space.

André Turcat was elected maintenor of the Académie of the floral Plays in 1975. He is the author inter alia Concorde tests and battles (2003) and of Test pilot reports (2005).

Publications

Andre Turcat, “Griffonnons”, in Re-examined aerospatiale , N° except series 20 years of aerospatiale, January 1990

External bonds

the opinion of Andre Turcat on the crash landing of the Harmony of the Tuesday, July 25, 2000 - Flight AF 4590
the fairy-like and captivating account of an excursion, in forest of Fontainebleau, with very famous “the prince of the test pilots” Andre Turcat
Site of the Academy of the Air and Space

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