Andre TURCAT

[toura]

Andre TURCAT is dead !

23.10.1921. MARSEILLE
04.01.2016 AIX EN PROVENCE

Pilot of Nord Griffon
Pilot of Concorde

94 years old

 

[Archibald]

Oh crap, the French Chuck Yeager is gone. 94 years old, a beautiful (if not risky) life of a test pilot.

These early days of 2016 are a carnage of French genius of every kind - we lost in a row

- singer Michel Delpech
- musician Pierre Boulez
- test pilot André Turcat
- comedian Michel Galabru

A lot of the 30 glorieuses going to the grave...