Brian Trubshaw

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Brian Trubshaw
Brian Trubshaw as test pilot at the controls of Concorde

Ernest Brian Trubshaw, CBE, MVO (29 January 1924 – 24 March 2001) was a leading test pilot, and the first British pilot to fly Concorde, in April 1969.

Biography

Brian Trubshaw was born in Liverpool in 1924[1] although he grew up in Llanelli where his grandfather had married into a family that owned the Western Tinplate Works, later managed by his father Harold (Major H E Trubshaw).[2] He was educated at Winchester College.[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. He joined Bomber Command in 1944, flying Stirlings and Lancasters, transferring a year later to Transport Command.

After the end of the

King's Flight, piloting George VI and other members of the Royal Family. Then in 1949–50 he taught at the Empire Flying School and the Royal Air Force College Cranwell
.

Trubshaw then went to

Vickers Armstrongs, where he remained for 30 years; he succeeded G R 'Jock' Bryce as chief test pilot by 1964, and was director of test flighting from 1966. Trubshaw worked on the development of the Valiant V-bomber, the Vanguard, the VC10, and the BAC One-Eleven
, and test flew all of these.

He shot to public attention when he first flew

Ivan C. Kincheloe Award
in 1971, for their work on Concorde.

He was appointed a

Civil Aviation Authority
, and worked as an aviation consultant. He authored books on aviation, notably Concorde: The Inside Story.

A burly, extrovert figure, Trubshaw added golf to his abiding interest in cricket, and later became involved in equestrianism. He was for some years a fence judge at Badminton Horse Trials.

Trubshaw's grave in Cherington

Personal life

He married Yvonne Edmondson, née Clapham, in 1972.

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.[8]

Death

He died in his sleep on 24 March 2001, at his home in Cherington, Gloucestershire.[9]

Legacy

In 1998, Trubshaw was inducted into the International Air & Space Hall of Fame at the San Diego Air & Space Museum.[10]

See also

  • John Cochrane
    – also a British test pilot for the Concorde

References

  1. ^ England & Wales, Birth Index: 1916–2005
  2. ^ "Brian Trubshaw". www.llanellich.org.uk. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
  3. ^ a b "Brian Trubshaw (Obituary)". The Telegraph. 26 March 2001. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
  4. ^ "No. 38924". The London Gazette. 30 May 1950. p. 2684.
  5. ^ "No. 38403". The London Gazette. 31 December 1948. p. 6.
  6. ^ "No. 43443". The London Gazette. 13 June 1964. p. 4951.
  7. ^ "No. 44999". The London Gazette. 31 December 1969. p. 9.
  8. ^ Trubshaw & Edmondson Brian Trubshaw: Test Pilot 1999 pp. 2–13 ISBN 0750918381
  9. ^ Paul Lewis (28 March 2001). "Brian Trubshaw, 77, Dies; Tested Concorde". The New York Times. p. C 21. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
  10. ISBN 978-1-57864-397-4
    .

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