Jacques Rosay was Vice President Chief

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of the aircraft manufacturer

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. He has piloted the maiden flights of several Airbus airliners, including the A318,

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, and A380 Superjumbo. He was born in 1949 in

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(

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, and died on 12 June 2015.

Career

Prior to his work for Airbus, Rosay was a test pilot at the flight test center in

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in southern France, where he flew almost 150 different aircraft models including the Rafale A and the

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. Rosay then worked for the

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in the course of

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efforts for various civil aircraft. He joined Airbus in

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, and achieved the position of chief test pilot in

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. Rosay had some 10,000 flight hours of experience, including 6,000 hours of test flights.

References

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