A signed Coloured Print 'Concord Tribute' 1976-2003. Signed ...

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A signed Coloured Print 'Concord Tribute' 1976-2003. Signed by Chief Concord Pilot Mike Bannister and Adrian Meredith.
Captain Mike Bannister was Chief Concorde Pilot for British Airways. He was responsible for its Flight Operations, Technical Performance, Flight Crew training and Management together with developing and maintaining standards for flying crew on the airline's flagship supersonic fleet of seven Concorde aircraft. He is also responsible for the same functions on the Airbus, Boeing 737, 757 and 767 fleets, based at British Airways worldwide operational headquarters at London's Heathrow Airport.

Mike joined BOAC (British Airways' predecessor) in 1969 as a pilot and flight navigator on the VC10 (Vickers) fleet. He became the youngest pilot on the Concorde fleet in 1977, completing the first ever course for 'Line Flight Crew.' Over the following years Mike was a member of a number of government and industry policy groups dedicated to aviation safety and became a Concorde pilot instructor in 1986.

He became Assistant Training Manager and a Captain on British Airway's BAe1-11 fleet in 1989. He also served as Flight Crew Manager for that fleet and the 'high tech' A320 fleet. In 1990, he was appointed Flight Manager (Technical) for the BAe1 11 fleet. In 1992, he moved to the B757/767 fleet as departmental Manager Business Development & Communications and was named Head of Communications, Flight Operations in 1992. He was appointed the airline's Chief Concorde Pilot in 1995 and flew regularly as Captain on all of the aircraft's routes worldwide. In 2002 he was appointed General Manager for all of the airline's Airbus, Boeing 737, 757, 767 and Concorde aircraft. Concorde visited more than 250 destinations, 76 in the USA.