Major General Lars-Bertil Persson (born 19 November 1934) is a retired Swedish Air Force officer.
Persson was born on 19 November 1934 in Lund City Parish, Malmöhus County, Sweden,[1] the son of Ernfrid Persson and his wife Lilly (née Fransson).
[2] Persson was commissioned as an officer in the Swedish Air Force in 1956 and attended the Empire Test Pilots' School in England in 1959.
He then served as a test pilot at the Swedish Center for Experimental Research (Försökscentralen, FC) at Malmen Airbase in Malmslätt from 1960 to 1968 and as a staff officer in the Defence Staff from 1968 to 1972.
[4] Persson was then director general and head of the National Aeronautical Research Institute from 1986 to 1996, and chairman of the Group for Aeronautical Research and Technology in Europe (GARTEUR) from 1996.