How many concorde pilots were there

Dixon RV. Douglas PM. Duffey PRW. Eames JD. Edmondson DA. Ellis DH. Emmett M. Gunton V. Harkness JA. Henderson T. Hirst JW. Horton PW. Hutchinson JC. Jolliffe CCR. Leney KD. Linfield HJ. Lowe WD. Mallinson P. Massie AJ. McMahon CB. McMullen HC. McNeilly IC. Meadows AR. Mills A. RA Mills. Morley CJC. We all understand that aeroplanes don't last for ever. Most people can cope with that because something comes along that's bigger or better or faster.

But nothing romantic is coming along. Instead, Jealous is going to deal with lengthy stopovers in unromantic cities, after boringly subsonic flights during which the riff-raff in coach will moan about being given the kosher meal they didn't order.

I am fairly senior, but that said, I may end up getting quite a bit of dross. Below Jealous's perfectly groomed hair and above his immaculately pressed jacket and clip-on tie, his eyes are becoming a little misty.

I went at mph on the runway, which was more than I was allowed to fly at maximum speed in the air on my previous planes, which were Tristars. I went from the slowest aeroplane to the fastest aeroplane.

Going westbound, we always landed approximately two hours before we took off. Going eastbound, as we came into London we would have to slow down because of the sonic boom to subsonic speeds, about mph slower. We would do. That last bit into London used to drag and drag. But it's going to be a concern in my new career, as is the amount of time I'm going to be away from home. On Concorde generally it was a single night's stop, sometimes two, whereas now there's the potential to be away from home for up to two weeks.

Concorde pilots, he says, were the most senior in the airline, "but for a long time we were also the lowest paid. We didn't fly for the money, but because we wanted to fly Concorde. It commanded a loyalty from its flight crew that British Airways had never seen before and is unlikely to see again.

After an Air France Concorde crashed outside Paris in July killing all people on board and four on the ground, BA's Concorde pilots remained confident that the plane would continue to fly. Disappointed by that. However, the U. When the U. Kennedy Airport began on 22 November By around in the UK, the future for Concorde looked bleak.

The government had lost money operating Concorde every year, and moves were afoot to cancel the service entirely. A cost projection came back with greatly reduced metallurgical testing costs, but still, having lost money for so many years, the government was not keen to continue.

In late , the managing director of BA, Sir John King, managed to get the government to sell the aircraft outright to the then state owned, later privatised BA for After doing a market survey and discovering that their target customers thought that Concorde was more expensive than it actually was, BA progressively raised prices to match these perceptions.

It is reported that BA then ran Concorde at a profit, unlike their French counterparts. The plane was reckoned to make an operating profit for British Airways after the British and French governments agreed to write off the development costs of the plane. While commercial jets take seven hours to fly from New York to Paris, the average supersonic flight time on the transatlantic routes was just under 3. In transatlantic flight, Concorde travelled more than twice as fast as other aircraft — other aircraft frequently appeared to be flying backwards.

Until the AF Paris crash ended virtually all charter services by both AF and BA, several UK and French tour operators operated numerous charter flights to various European destinations on a regular basis.

One BA engineer is said to have hid in the toilet during take-off from JFK to get a free flight back to Heathrow BA Concordes were used to carry major currency between the USA and the UK, there was a safe fitted in the rear baggage hold for this purpose Fred Finn was on the first and last Concorde flight and holds the Guinness World Record for the most Concorde flights as a passenger.