Brian Trubshaw

Test Pilot

By: Brian Trubshaw

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Paperback | 20 July 2006

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When the British prototype Concorde took off from RAF
Fairford on 9 April 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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List of Plates	p. vii
Foreword by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Introduction	p. xiii
The Early Days	p. 1
School	p. 4
The Royal Air Force	p. 12
Arrival at Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft) Ltd.	p. 27
The Vickers-Armstrongs Viscount	p. 31
The Vickers-Armstrongs Valiant	p. 38
Other Activities	p. 57
The Vickers Vanguard	p. 63
The British Aircraft Corporation and the Vickers-Armstrongs VC1O/Super VC10	p. 72
The British Aircraft Corporation and the 1-11	p. 92
Concorde: the Background and Early Stages	p. 114
Concorde: Some Technical Aspects	p. 132
Concorde: the Flight Test Programme	p. 139
Concorde: First Exposures	p. 155
Concorde: Further Testing	p. 163
Concorde: Route Proving, Flying, Training and Entry into Service	p. 177
Concorde: the Final Stages	p. 184
Nationalization and Back at Filton	p. 192
Flying a Desk	p. 199
Life after British Aerospace	p. 206
The Future	p. 214
Epilogue	p. 219
Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations	p. 229
Index	p. 235
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