Stunning Test Pilots series commemorative envelope dedicated to and signed by the late Brian Trubshaw (1924 - 2001). Comes with insert and photo of Trubshaw at the controls of Concorde.

BRIAN TRUBSHAW was a test pilot for 30 years, and became the idol of thousands of schoolboys after he steered Concorde through its maiden flight in Britain.

Trubshaw flew the British-assembled Concorde 002 from Filton in Bristol to RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire, on April 9 1969.

"It was a wizard flight," he said. Later, in his autobiography Brian Trubshaw - Test Pilot (1998), he recalled the crowds of onlookers who had lined the roads around Filton and Fairford, and the fact that "the eyes of millions of people all over the world were focused on us".

Trubshaw remained devoted to the aeroplane that Michael Heseltine, then the Minister for Aerospace, claimed represented "the biggest single leap forward in flying since the first flight of any aircraft".

Trubshaw said: "Many test pilots would have given almost anything to be in my shoes and I well appreciated how lucky I was."