Morien Morgan

Sir Morien Bedford Morgan CB FRS[1] (20 December 1912 – 4 April 1978), was a noted Welsh aeronautical engineer, sometimes known as "the Father of Concorde".

He was born in Bridgend, the son of draper John Bedford Morgan and teacher Edith Mary.

At the time he commented that: Light alloy construction would be used, and engines could be straightforward developments of present-day large jet units.

Long slender shapes, with subsonic leading edges and supersonic trailing edges, can give sufficiently high L/D while the optimum cruise aspect ratio is large enough for a sensible compromise to be visualized between cruising efficiency and reasonable approach speed.During the Concorde work, Morgan tirelessly worked through problems, both technical and political, to see the project to its conclusion.

Alternating with his French counterpart, Robert Vergnaud, he chaired the Concorde oversight committee from 1963 when work began in earnest, to 1966 when prototype construction was well advanced.