An interview with…… Mike Savage on selling with BAC

Touring the world in Concorde was a key part of Mike Savage’s public relations work for the British Aircraft Corporation. After explaining why he chose to leave the ailing Handley Page Limited, he tells stories of his early days at BAC including selling the BAC 1-11 to Gulf Aviation and why a Japanese man fell through a toilet floor, before moving onto his part in promotional and endurance testing flights in the Aerospatiale/BAC Concorde, including conversations with the Archbishop of Canterbury, going to and from Beirut by different forms of transport and dealing with 106 litres of whiskey at Gander. Mike Savage FRAeS was interviewed in January 2019 by Bill Read FRAeS and the podcast was edited by Mike Stanberry FRAeS.