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Cranston Fine Arts  Aviation Art and Artists Civilian Aviation Pilot Signatures  Gunton, Viv |
[UP] - Bandall, Paul - Bannister, Michael - Bedforth, James - Boas, Richard - Brodie, Les - Calenberg, Iwein van - Douglas, Paul - Girard, Larry - Gunton, Viv - Harmer, Barbara - Hazelby, Warren - Kelly-Rogers, John - Marsh, Spencer - Moss, William - Norris, Chris - Orchard, Tim - Orlebar, Christopher - Reid, Jock - Trubshaw, Brian - Tye, John - Walden, Mark - Walpole, Brian |
Captain Viv Gunton
Captain Vivian Gunton started flying in 1958 with an RAF Flying Scholarship - on a Tiger Moth - at a grass aerodrome called Fairoaks. On leaving school he took one of the 42 places offered at the College of Air Training, Hamble, when it opened in 1960. After graduating from the College in 1962, Viv joined British European Airways and spent 8 years flying around Europe and the UK, first on the Vanguard then flying Tridents which were at that time the fastest civil passenger aeroplanes in the world. Promoted Captain in 1970, he spent 7 years flying in Scotland, which included three years flying the Scottish Air Ambulance Service and landing on the beach at Barra in the Outer Hebrides. He returned to London to fly the Trident again, and with the demise of the Trident in late 1985, Viv needed to find something faster to fly and so became a Concorde Captain. He flew Concorde for 11 years until he retired in September 1996. He subsequently spent two years, part time, flying a King-Air for Cega Air Ambulance. Viv lives with his wife in Odiham. When not gardening or flying aerobatics in a Chipmunk, they may be found narrow boating at a mind-bending 4 m.p.h.
| Captain Viv Gunton - Signed Aviation Art |
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Concorde - The Golden Years by Stephen Brown The scheduled Concorde flights to and from New York were by far the most important for both British Airways and Air France. Taking full advantage of Concordes speed and the time difference between London and New York, some business people would arrive in New York on the early morning flight, do a days work and then take the evening flight back to London. |
| Captain Viv Gunton Aircraft details |
 Concorde Manufacturer : Aerospatiale-BAC Built : 20 | Concorde The Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde was a turpbojet powered supersonic passenger airliner, produced bewteen the British and French companies. The Concorde programme was instigated through the Anglo-French government treaty which brought together both the French company Aerospatiale and the British Aircraft Corporation (now BEA systems ). The First Concorde prototype flew in 1969, and Concorde entered service in 1976, continuing for 27 years. Only 20 aircraft were built, the development phase represented a substantial economic loss. Both British Airways and Air France were subsidised by their governments to buy the aircraft. The Concorde flew mainly between London and New York or Washington taking less than half the time than any other airliner. The Air France Concordes also flew form Charles Degaulle airport in Paris. The only crash was of a Air France Concorde on the 25th pf July 2000, and the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York and other financial factors caused the Concorde fleet to cease flying on the 24th October 2003, with the last flights being on the 26th of November 2003. Concorde will remain an aviation great. |
 Trident | Trident No profile available |
 Vanguard Manufacturer : Vickers | Vanguard No profile available |
| Captain Viv Gunton Squadron details |
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