Guy du Merle

Guy du Merle (1 January 1908 – 6 June 1993) was a French aerospace engineer, pilot Construction des avions - Guy du Merle Dunod 1947 and writer. He was the first head of the French Civil Aviation University.

Du Merle graduated from the École Polytechnique (1927) and the École nationale supérieure de l'aéronautique et de l'espace (1932). He began his career as a military pilot, from 1933 to 1935, on more than hundred types of aircraft. From 1940 to 1950, he taught aerospace engineering at the École nationale supérieure de l'aéronautique et de l'espace. Guy du Merle In 1948, he became the first director of the French Civil Aviation University, until 1951. La lettre d'information mensuelle de l'École Nationale de l'Aviation Civile 

A roundabout of the city of Toulouse bears his name.1998 Rond-point Guy du Merle

References

Further reading
 Guy du Merle, Construction des avions, Souchier, 1942, 283 p.
 Guy du Merle, Construction des avions, Dunod, 1947, 857 p.
 Guy du Merle, Aviation quand tu nous tiens, 23 p., École nationale de l'aviation civile, 1986 (English version )
 Académie nationale de l'air et de l'espace and Lucien Robineau, Les français du ciel, dictionnaire historique, Le Cherche midi, June 2005, 782 p. ()

Category:1908 births
Category:1993 deaths
Category:Alumni of the École Polytechnique
Category:French aviators
Category:Heads of the French Civil Aviation University
Category:Writers from Toulon