Bernard Ziegler
description: a French aerospace engineer known for his work on Airbus aircraft
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Fly by Wire: The Geese, the Glide, the Miracle on the Hudson
by William Langewiesche · 10 Nov 2009 · 175pp · 54,028 words
forward unhindered by tradition and without fear or compromise in the design. The effort was led by a charismatic French test and fighter pilot named Bernard Ziegler, now retired, who must stand as one of the great engineers of our time. Several years earlier, Ziegler had been behind the decision to go
The Glass Cage: Automation and Us
by Nicholas Carr · 28 Sep 2014 · 308pp · 84,713 words
, would have been “much less likely to happen” if the pilots had been flying in a Boeing cockpit with its human-centered controls.32 Even Bernard Ziegler, the brilliant and proud French engineer who served as Airbus’s top designer until his retirement in 1997, recently expressed misgivings about his company’s