Biography | Guillaume Faury — The Rangueil Campus That Finished the Airframe Training

Palaiseau gave him the general engineer stamp. Toulouse gave him the airframe. Faury left the École polytechnique in 1990 and took the aeronautics course at the École nationale supérieure de l'aéronautique et de l'espace. He finished that course in 1992. The school now trades as ISAE-SUPAERO. Its campus sits at 10 avenue Marc Pélegrin, in the Rangueil scientific complex on the south side of Toulouse. The institution publishes its own pin at 43 degrees 34 minutes north, 1 degree 28 minutes 29 seconds east. That is a few hundred metres from ENAC and from the older laboratories on avenue Édouard Belin. In 1992 the name on the gate was still SUPAERO. The 2007 merger with ENSICA produced the ISAE wrapper visitors see today. Airbus and AXA biographies both record the Toulouse diploma after Palaiseau. They do not invent a month. After the diploma he entered the French defence procurement agency as a flight-test engineer on the Tiger helicopter at Istres. The next decade of hangar work sat on that sequence: X, then SUPAERO, then the test centre. The campus is a working school. The public approach is the avenue and the official entrance, not the residences and not the laboratories. Photo: YtoSu, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Portrait: Xavier Lejeune for the European Commission, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.