FLYING high in the 1960s with Concorde Test Pilot Brian Trubshaw and TV legend Johnnie Morris.

Brian Trubshaw was the chief test pilot at BAC and became the first Bristol man to fly Concorde in April 1969. He was born on 29th January 1924 and died on 25th March 2001.

He first shot to public attention when he first flew the first British Concorde 002 on 9 April 1969 on a flight from Filton to its test base at RAF Fairford.

He emerged from Concorde 002’s then futuristic cockpit with the words: “It was wizard – a cool, calm and collected operation.”

Former Gazette photographer David Ireland was on hand to catch the moment on camera. He shared the photograph on his Facebook page David Ireland's Gazette Pictures from the past and are reproduced here with David's kind permission.

There is also a great picture of TV personality Johnnie Morris at the opening of the SARA lifeboat station in Sharpness and the Vindicatrix ship in all her glory.