Journalist Pierre Sparaco Dies
Career spanned more than 50 years.

Pierre Sparaco, a European aerospace journalist whose career spanned more than 50 years writing in English and French, died on August 3 in Aix-en-Provence, France, at the age of 75. Among other positions, he is known for having been the editor of Aviation Magazine in France until 1992. He then joined Aviation Week, where he eventually became European bureau chief. In 2005 he officially retired but quickly moved back to writing, notably for AeroMorning and then Aerobuzz, in addition to a column in Aviation Week. Sparaco authored a number of books, including exhaustive histories of the Concorde program and Airbus.


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