Background
He was born in 1949 in Valréas (Vaucluse), France, and died on 12 June 2015.
He was born in 1949 in Valréas (Vaucluse), France, and died on 12 June 2015.
School of the Air.
He has piloted the maiden flights of several Airbus airliners, including the A318, A340-500, and A380 Superjumbo. Prior to his work for Airbus, Rosay was a test pilot at the flight test center in Istres Air Base in southern France, where he flew almost 150 different aircraft models including the Rafale A and the Mirage 2000. Rosay then worked for the Joint Aviation Authorities in the course of certification efforts for various civil aircraft.
Rosay had some 10,000 flight hours of experience, including 6,000 hours of test flights.