Béatrice Vialle
Béatrice Vialle is a French aviator, one of the two operational female Concorde pilots and the first French female pilot on a supersonic airliner.Biography
Graduating from École nationale de l'aviation civile, she started her career at Air Littoral, flying an Embraer EMB 110 Bandeirante. She moved to Air France in 1985, where she flew an Airbus A320 and a Boeing 747 before becoming qualified on Concorde, on 24 July 2000.
She made her first commercial flight on the 19 November 2001 and so became one of the two female Concorde pilots and the first French female pilot on a supersonic airliner. In total Vialle made 45 supersonic flights Paris-New York City and 3 trips above the Atlantic Ocean. After the end of her Concorde flights, she became a Captain flying Boeing 747-400s.
