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Captain John D Eames
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Senior Concorde Pilot
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Captain John D Eames, upon leaving the Royal Air Force, joined the British Overseas Airways Corporation who trained him as a flight navigator. The next fifteen years were spent acting as co-pilot and navigator flying Lockheed Constellation, Bristol Britannia and Boeing 707 aircraft on worldwide routes.
He was promoted to Captain on the 707 fleet and after two years appointed a Training Captain, a position that combined scheduled route flying with training new pilots and carrying out recurrent flight and simulator checks on fleet pilots.
A year before Concorde entered commercial service, John was selected, along with seven other captains and eight flight engineers, to join the Concorde Nucleus group. Their task was to fly with the Concorde test pilots on the very extensive route proving flights that were demanded by the British and French Authorities before the issue of a Certificate of Airworthiness.
When Concorde entered service in 1976 John and the other training captains and training engineers were kept fully occupied, flying the routes and training new crews. Apart from a year's sabbatical he remained on the Concorde fleet as British Airways Senior Concorde Pilot until his retirement.
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