Jean Rech (1931 - December 2017) was a French aerodynamicist, and the chief aerodynamicist for

Concorde Concorde () is a retired Anglo-French supersonic airliner jointly developed and manufactured by Sud Aviation and the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC). Studies started in 1954, and France and the United Kingdom signed a treaty establishin ...

, on the French division.

Early life

He attended

École nationale supérieure de l'aéronautique et de l'espace École or Ecole may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France * Éco ...

(known as Supaéro).

Career

Aérospatiale

He worked for

Sud Aviation Sud Aviation (, 'Southern Aviation') was a French state-owned aircraft manufacturer, originating in the merger of Sud-Est ( SNCASE, or ''Société nationale des constructions aéronautiques du sud-est'') and Sud-Ouest ( SNCASO or ''Société nat ...

and

Aérospatiale Aérospatiale () was a major French state-owned aerospace manufacturer, aerospace and arms industry, defence corporation. It was founded in 1970 as () through the merger of three established state-owned companies: Sud Aviation, Nord Aviation ...

on Concorde, and then on its

ATR ATR may refer to: Medicine * Acute transfusion reaction * Ataxia telangiectasia and Rad3 related, a protein involved in DNA damage repair Science and mathematics * Advanced Test Reactor, nuclear research reactor at the Idaho National Laboratory, ...

division (with

Aeritalia Aeritalia was an aerospace engineering corporation based in Italy. It was formed out of the merger of two aviation companies, Fiat Aviazione and Aerfer, in 1969. Aeritalia continued several programs of its preceding companies, perhaps most pr ...

of Italy).

Personal life

He died aged 86 in December 2017.Biography, 3AF Gazette January 2018, page 28
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Publications

* ''Concorde aerodynamics and associated systems development'' (with Clive Leyman),

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rech, Jean 1931 births 2017 deaths Aerodynamicists Aérospatiale Concorde French aerospace engineers Sud Aviation Supaéro alumni