Heritage Concorde

“The Concorde was special, the quality of the work, the minds, the skills, the talent, the commitment that went into it, that’s what really mattered”

Tony Benn former British MP

When you think of the stars of the Concorde world, you could be forgiven for only remembering the famous pilots who once flew this amazing aircraft to the edge of space. But the real heroes were the engineers, the men that got their hands dirty working on her and who fought so hard to keep her flying for nearly 28 years.

Sadly some of these Concorde engineering heroes have now died, but there are many still alive some of whom are still working for the airlines. Over the next few months I will compile a list of these heroes that worked and fought so hard to keep our dream alive for nearly 28 years of Concorde passenger operations.

The ground engineers were really based at five main locations, LHR / JFK / IAD/ MIA/ CDG and aside from LHR and CDG there really were not that many engineers in number to take care of the massive amount technical issues that the Concorde operations carried with it.

But we must also acknowledge the many other engineers at Airbus, BAC, BAe, Aerospatiale and the many other companies who worked so hard to achieve the success and continued service of Concorde up until 2003 when she took to the skies for the last time.

The updating of this page is an ongoing task, any assistance would be welcome!

The Concorde Engineering Heroes

Ian Mosdell – British Airways. Ian played a major role in the post 2000 Concorde modifications. Ian was also the main engineer working for Heritage Concorde Project Flagship. This saw life returned to BA Concorde G-BOAC. Without this man, Project Flagship would never have taken place, he was the one member of the team that we couldn’t of done without.

John Dunlevy - British Airways. John has been connected with Concorde since 1965, when he became an apprentice with the Bristol Aeroplane Company and streamed for test flight avionics and production avionics. He Specialized in the aircraft air Intake developement at Fairford on the prototype and preproduction Concordes, and was involved with the British prototype 002 tours and British pre-production 101 endurance flying. He left Fairford in 1977 to join British Airways

Richard Hughes - British Aircraft Corporation/ Fairford/ British Airways

Alex Jolivet – Air France.  Alex is the engineer that heads the team that keeps the Concorde at Le Bourget alive

Christian Julius – Aerospatiale

Fred Heal – British Airways

Robert White – BAC, British Aerospace, BAe Systems . Bristol, United Kingdom. Robert has been an Aircraft Electrician who worked mainly with Concorde from from September 1967 and is currently still at BAe Systems. He also conducted tours on G-BOAF while she was on display at Filton airfield until 2010.

Phil Rozier – British Airways

Andy Cameron – British Airways

Alan Perry – BAC at Filton which became British Aerospace (BAe) and known today as BAe Systems, Concorde stayed in service due to Alan’s work on the new post 9/11 Concorde flight deck door.

Ian Bishop - British Airways

Phil Cairns - British Airways. During the work to restore Concorde to flight following the Paris crash, he worked on the spar 72 modifications. This involved the strengthening and removal of the predicted wear and tear in this area of the aircraft.

Lewis Triggs – BOAC, Filton. Chief Engineer in charge of training the ground engineering staff for Concorde back in the 1970s.

John Coe - British Airways

Mick Cousins - British Airways

Eddie Crook – British Airways

Bob Dowie – British Airways

Bob Hodgkinson  - British Airways

Keith Leyland - British Airways

Len Jenkins – British Airways

Marc Morley- British Airways

Carl Percey - British Airways

Dave Shelford - British Airways

Eric Smith - British Airways

Paul Snelgrove – British Airways

Dave Sutton - British Airways

John Kaiser - British Airways

Kevin Moyes - British Airways

Doug Wernham - British Airways

Shah Yusufzai – British Airways

Roy Cox – BAC Filton, Roy was involved with British  prototype Concorde 002

British Airways Concorde Engineering Heroes at New York JFK

Tony Badia - British Airways

Alan Barker - British Airways

Claude Call - British Airways

Ray Carolla - British Airways

Jim Dennis - British Airways

John Hess - British Airways

Leo Korbus - British Airways

Syd Langford - British Airways

Tommy Mattola - British Airways

Bob Malony - British Airways

John Pace – British Airways

Charlie Pantol - British Airways

Glen Schalk – British Airways

Pete Vasas - British Airways

Jim Visentin – British Airways

Paul Wahlrab - British Airways

Don Wells - British Airways

Clarence Whittaker - British Airways

Various pictures of the engineers who gave us Concorde and kept her flying over the years!

Heritage Concorde will keep updating this page with further pictures and names!