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Brian Trubshaw was a British test pilot who was responsible for the successful launch of the British prototype Concorde. He was born in 1932 and grew up in a rural area in England. He enlisted in the Royal Air Force in 1952 and began his test pilot training in 1955. He was assigned to the Concorde project in 1966 and was the first pilot to fly the aircraft. He remained the pilot of the Concorde until its retirement in 2003. Trubshaw wrote the book "Test Pilot: My Life in the Fast Lane" which tells his story from his own perspective.
When the British prototype Concorde took off from RAF Fairford on April 9, 1969, at the controls was Captain Brian Trubshaw. Here is the full and fascinating story of Brian Trubshaw's life as an experimental test pilot, written from his own unique viewpoint on the flight deck and covering a period of tremendous upheaval in the British aircraft industry.
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