Steve Jones

Steve Jones, born on 5 January 1960, is a British airline and aerobatics pilot who competed in the Red Bull Air Race World Series in a Zivko Edge 540 and later became the championship's head judge. He had his first flying lesson at five years old and worked commercially as a British Airways Boeing 747 captain. Since 1994 he has flown displays with Paul Bonhomme in the Red Bull Matadors team as the wingman, and he won the 2007 Red Bull Air Race round in Porto, Portugal. He retired as a competitor after the 2008 season, worked as a technical commentator, and returned as race director and head of training when the series resumed in 2014. In November 2021 he set a record for electrically powered aircraft over a three kilometre course at 559.9 kilometres per hour in the Spirit of Innovation.