LMI Lecture: Captain John Hutchinson - Flying Concorde

John joined the Royal Air Force in 1955 and spent eight years in the service. His Squadron flying was on the Avro Shackleton conducting maritime operations in Singapore. He went on to complete the course at the Central Flying School in 1960 and was an A2 QFI and Instrument Rating Examiner on the Jet Provost until he left the RAF in 1963. This was followed by three years in corporate aviation flying a variety of light single and twin-engine aircraft.

He joined BOAC (subsequently British Airways) in 1966 as a co-pilot on Boeing 707’s and 747’s, gaining his command on the VC10 in 1976. He was posted to the Concorde fleet in 1977 where he remained until retirement from BA in 1992. He was a Route & Line Check Captain and has 5,800 hours on that aircraft, 3,800 of them being supersonic flight hours.

John has worked as a consultant on the US High Speed Research Programme. He is a member of the Flight Operations Group of the Royal Aeronautical Society and has acted as an Expert Witness in aviation related legal actions. He has worked as a Presenter on BBC Television and lectures extensively on cruise ships and to a variety of organisations throughout the world. He is a member of the Duxford Aviation Society, custodians of the British Airliner Collection which includes Concorde 101, the fastest ever Concorde.

John is a Past Master of the Honourable Company of Air Pilots (a City of London Livery Company) and a Fellow of both the Royal Aeronautical Society and the Royal Institute of Navigation.

In December 2022 John was invited to join Mountain Aerospace Research Solutions which has recently been restructured and rebranded under the name 4th Planet Propulsion. He has joined as an adviser and is greatly looking forward to the exciting challenges that lie ahead.

More information: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-hutchinson-fraes-frin-9523a114?originalSubdomain=uk

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