Memories of Capt D.F. O'Sullivan BOAC Test Pilot
Evening.
I write this to ask if anyone on this forum has any information, online articles, photos, videos, etc involving one D.F. O'Sullivan of BOAC.
Capt. O'Sullivan would have been born around 1915 - 1920 and, after serving in the RAF during WW2, joined BOAC. Despite having the third commonest surname in Ireland, he was born in the UK and very much RAF in his way of doing things. My understanding is that he served as a longhaul pilot before becoming a test pilot at the latter stage of his career. He contributed technical articles and reviews to reputable flight journals.
He was active in BALPA and provided a share of support to Capt Thain of Munich Crash (1958) until his eventual exoneration in 1968.
Unfortunately, like so many WW2 veterans, his later middle years were blighted by health matters and he could not therefore be involved in the Concorde programme that was the excitement of the late 1960s.
This may or may not be true, but I have a vague recollection of someone saying that there was a plaque that has his name in the underground chapel at Heathrow.