john Turner
“John Turner has managed the corporate governance of a major international aerospace company, covering all its flying and airfield operations world-wide while also being responsible to the UK civil and military regulators for the company's UK flight test activities and associated airfield operations. He was also an active test pilot on Tornado, Hawk, Eurofighter/Typhoon, BAe146 and Nimrod MRA4, flying as Captain of MRA4's first flight, and was UAV pilot for the first flight of Mantis.
John has displayed Hawk and Eurofighter at a number of international air shows, including the first fully aerobatic Eurofighter display at Farnborough in 1996 and utilising carefree handling to launch the Typhoon name at Farnborough 1998. He has also displayed a wide variety of vintage aircraft, from the 1st World War Bristol Fighter F2B to the 1940's Avro C-19 airliner, at Shuttleworth Trust’s Old Warden airfield and elsewhere in UK. He has worked on air show Flying Control Committees since 1990 and in 2010 took over as Chairman of the Flying Control Committee for the Farnborough International Airshow.
He established John Turner Aviation Consultancy Ltd in 2010 to help those needing a source of independent aviation expertise.”.
Website: www.jt-ac.com
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