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Captain David Studd
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Concorde Pilot
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Captain David Studd completed a Royal Navy Flying Scholarship with Surrey & Kent Flying School at Biggin Hill in 1965. While being checked out for his first solo flight he was in the circuit with the Lancaster bomber now with the Memorial Flight just as it was arriving on its last leg from Australia to UK.
In 1968 he completed basic flying training with the BEA/BOAC programme at Oxford Air Training School at Kiddlington. Joining BEA as a 2nd Officer on Vanguards for 3 years he then converted to the BAC 111 as a 1st Officer, flying mainly in and out of Berlin with the German internal services. He then converted onto the Boeing 737 as a Captain in 1984.
David converted onto Concorde in 1995, flying mainly to New York and Barbados, but also with some charter flights. As a very enthusiastic golfer David says his most enjoyable charter flight was taking the European Ryder Cup team to Boston, USA. En route Jose-Marie Olazabal made the world record putt of 9.23 miles, which now will probably never be beaten. David retired in Dec 2002, just a few months before Concorde was itself retired from service.
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