Christopher May was educated at a Catholic grammar school in the London area and after national service in Cyprus in army intelligence, he studied aeronautics at Imperial College. He worked for Blackburn Aircraft in Kensington and then the British Aircraft Corporation at Filton, Bristol, where he married and settled. Following the failure of the Concorde to gain large-scale orders from world airlines, he moved into civil engineering with Wiltshire County and was soon elected MICE, moving to the new Avon County and leaving early when Avon was dismantled, in order to run a smallholding for a few years, while also volunteering at aviation museums. He now lives comfortably on high ground overlooking the Bristol Channel.
