Christopher Burke

Christopher Burke a retired Boeing 747 Captain with British Airways. He joined British European Airways as a second officer on Vanguard aircraft in 1971 having obtained a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of Salford, United Kingdom. As a First Officer of the BAC 1-11, Christopher Burke began his first flights along the Berlin Air Corridor in 1974 in a career which was to witness over 1000 operations across the the GDR both as co pilot and later, Captain of HS 748 aircraft. last BA flight to Tempelhof 13KB JPEG On the night of 31st August 1975, along with Captain Bob Warnock, Christopher Burke operated the last commercial British Airways flight to Berlin Tempelhof flying BAC 1-11, Victor Mike Oscar pictured here on the left. With the hyper links, this, his own web site, is intended to highlight a little known little known piece of aviation history.

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