He sports a navy blue "Brooklands Concorde" flight jacket, a shock of white hair, and a palpable pride for the airplane. As Captain Bannister briefs me on cockpit layout, his flow reflects his more ...
A former Concorde pilot who drove the plane to the edge of space has shared his "phenomenal" memories on the aircraft's anniversary. John Tye, 67, who flew the plane from 1998 to 2000, will be ...
A Surrey pilot who became the youngest person to fly a Concorde says he is still fascinated by the supersonic plane, 50 years after its first commercial flight. Concorde first flew passengers from ...
As the first and only supersonic commercial jetliner, Concorde was popular with royals, celebrities, and business executives.
The former chief pilot of the British Airways Concorde fleet has predicted the world will have to wait another quarter-century before passenger planes break the sound barrier again. Captain Jock Lowe ...
(CNN) — On January 21, 1976 a teenage John Tye was among crowds of onlookers clinging to a chain link fence, cheering as the first commercial British Airways Concorde flight departed from London’s ...