Brian Trubshaw

[3] He signed up for the RAF in 1942 at the age of eighteen and went to the United States, where he trained as a pilot flying Stearman biplanes.

After the end of the Second World War, he joined the King's Flight, piloting George VI and other members of the Royal Family.

He shot to public attention when he first flew Concorde on 9 April 1969 on a flight from Filton to its test base at RAF Fairford.

Weeks earlier he had piloted an early test flight of the identical French prototype Concorde 001, commanded by André Turcat.

Always a sports enthusiast, he played cricket for Winchester College and the Royal Air Force, and in later life attained a nine handicap at golf.