Roger Béteille

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Roger Béteille
Supaéro
Occupation(s)Aeronautical engineer, businessman
Years active1952–1984
Known forContributions towards Airbus
SpouseJosette Jasmin
AwardsLudwig Prandtl Ring (1986)

Roger Béteille (28 August 1921 – 14 June 2019) was a French aeronautical engineer and businessman. Regarded as one of the founding fathers of the company, he is known for his contributions towards

TWA and American Airlines
.

Early life

Béteille was born in Vors,

Supaéro and at the Centre des hautes études de l'armement (CHEAr).[4]

Career

In 1952, he joined

Armagnac" and "Caravelle" programmes.[3]

He was one of the key players in the formation of the European Airbus consortium.

TWA and American Airlines.[2] He also decided that English should be the working language and that measurements should not be metric because most airlines already had American-built aircraft.[8]

Béteille in 1972

A large part of the initial success of

LD-3 freight containers – and the basic work-share agreement of the various partners in Airbus.[1][9][10]

Béteille purchased Super Guppy transport aircraft to bring the pieces of the aircraft to its final assembly point in Toulouse.[11][12] He long served as the company's chief operating officer and was regarded as one of the founding fathers, along with Henri Ziegler and Felix Kracht.[2][13]

In 1983, he became a founding member of the French Académie de l'air et de l'espace (AAE).[14] He retired in March 1984.[15]

Personal life

Béteille was awarded the

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Luft- und Raumfahrt (German Society for Aeronautics and Astronautics) in 1986.[16] The Final Assembly Building for the Airbus A350 in Toulouse is named after him.[17]

Béteille was married to opera singer Josette Jasmin and the two lived in Cannes and on the Midi.[18]

He died on 14 June 2019, at age 97.[19]

Tribute

In tribute for his involvement within the Airbus Group, the A350XWB assembly plant in Toulouse was named after him.[20]

References

  1. ^ a b c Karl Morgenstern, Jan Schulz, " L'histoire d'Airbus: une équipe européenne, un succès mondial. Ce sont des pionniers, réalistes dans l’action et visionnaires dans la pensée tels que Roger Beteille « Monsieur Airbus », qui ont permis, finalement, de réaliser cette idée européenne de l’aviation. », 26 juillet 2004, dans Deutschland magazine Archived 2008-04-02 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ a b c "DAY 20". AirBus. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
  3. ^ a b "Roger Béteille". AcademieAirespace. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
  4. ^ "L'Aveyronnais Roger Béteille, père fondateur du consortium Airbus industrie" (in French). Cebtre Presse Aveyron. 28 April 2019.
  5. ^ "Airbus: 50 years of an industry giant". Airliner Watch. May 29, 2019.
  6. ^ "Airbus supplement: Personalityfile". Flight Global. 29 October 1997.
  7. ^ History of EADS: Roger Béteille, one of the founding fathers of the Airbus Industrie www.eads.net
  8. ISBN 9781473838659
    . Retrieved 22 June 2019.
  9. ^ "Airbus supplement: A320 family". Flight Global. 29 October 1997.
  10. ^ "Finnair's First Airbus A350 Takes Shape". Ainonline. 16 December 2014.
  11. ^ "Airbus A300 the beginnings of Airbus". Modern Airliners. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
  12. ^ "Airbus: Problems of Success". The Washington Post. 1 July 1979.
  13. ^ "Gold class: Airbus is flying high at 50". The West Australian. 31 May 2019.
  14. ^ "Académie de l'air et de l'espace: ANNALES 2016" (PDF) (in French). Académie de l'air et de l'espace. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
  15. ISBN 9781473838659
    . Retrieved 22 June 2019.
  16. ^ "MITTEILUNGEN 3/2002. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Luft- und Raumfahrt - Lilienthal-Oberth e.v." (in German). DocPlayer. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
  17. ^ Airbus Scramble, Aviation Week and Space Technology, October 29, 2012, p.24
  18. ISBN 9781448133918
    . Retrieved 22 June 2019.
  19. ^ "Décès de Roger Béteille, père-fondateur d'Airbus" (in French). Le Figaro. Retrieved 15 June 2019.
  20. ^ "Airbus. Roger Béteille, l'un des pères fondateurs du constructeur aéronautique européen, est mort". 22 June 2019.

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