![]() ![]() ‘It has been over 10 years since Concorde last flew and you would have thought interest in it would have waned but it hasn’t. ‘When she last came home from Spain I told her what I was going to do and she was very pleased. ‘It is a natural circle of life that the money raised will go back in to flying in the form of helping my daughter to be a commercial pilot. ‘I was sat in my study one day and it struck me that I have been very fortunate to have had a fabulous career and I was looking at these items around me and thought about selling them to take that debt burden off of Amy. But times have changed and if you want to be a commercial pilot now somebody has to pay £100,000 and at the end of the day the student is left with the debt at the start of their career. ‘I was very lucky when I trained to be a pilot as it was sponsored by the airline. ![]() Another item being put up for auction by Mike Bannister is a prototype tyre (above), which was introduced after the fatal Air France crash in Paris in July 2000 which killed a total of 113 people
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