On the 45th anniversary of Concorde’s first scheduled flight, Key.Aero caught up with Jock Lowe, the longest-serving pilot of the supersonic airliner and British Airways’ former director of flight operations
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For some, the dream of becoming a pilot starts at an early age but for Jock Lowe, his life had taken him on a completely different path.
During his early 20s in the late 1960s, he was a chemical engineer pursuing a PhD researching why rocket engines sometimes explode. He hadn’t given much thought to a career as a pilot until he joined his local University Air Squadron.
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