Life of a Concorde Pilot: From The Orphanage to The Edge of Space

John Tye's job at British Airways was supposed to be only temporary, a way for him to pass the summer before starting university.

Instead, it would kickstart a forty-six-year career in aviation and take him all over the world.

Told in an irrepressible and infectious style, Life of a Concorde Pilot is the story of how, despite a somewhat turbulent start to life in a Middlesex orphanage, John would go on to fly the world's only supersonic airliner. A true insight to the life of an airline pil...