A French champion at ISAE-SUPAERO

Thierry Fauré, responsible for the technical management of ISAE-SUPAERO’s InnovSpace prototyping space, won the 2018 French 3D target archery championships in the veteran category.

For three days, 500 archers from all over France competed on the Aubrac plateau to share the titles of the different categories awarded by the French Archery Federation (FFTA).

Thierry Fauré practises 3D shooting on nature courses on foam animal targets of different size and shape, placed at variable shooting distances.

“It’s not a hunting training, but a fun and sportive practice” he insists to specify.

Passionate about ar chery since 1990, Thierry practices the straight bow, a bow without sights or pulley, very close to the medieval bow. He designs and builds his own bows out of passion. A competition bow requires about a hundred hours of work.
Calmness and precision are qualities that this member of the Montgiscard archers club (31) also adopts on a daily basis in his professional activity.

Since the creation of this place of meetings and exchanges a year ago, he organizes and manages the life of the InnovSpace of ISAE-SUPAERO. He accompanies the projects of students, staff and teacher-researchers after having trained them in the safe use of the machine tools made available.

This space is one of the elements of the InnovSpace project which will support and develop innovation and entrepreneurship within the Institute, through the creation of a new dedicated space in early 2019. It will offer design capabilities, rapid prototyping, start-up hosting, as well as an immersive technology space.

Thierry Fauré participated in its conception and will design this future space as a team, as he did for the existing one, proving that 3D shooting and 3D printers require the same attention and the same rigor.