Man Alive - A Man Called Trubshaw A Plane Called Concorde

[@paulgreen9618]

Amazing how they managed to get this incredible piece of engineering flying....without a hi-viz vest in sight!

[@Rasscasse]

Ha ha

[@mrjohncharlesbrown]

I met him in 1976 and have his autograph on a 1976 Concorde ticket which I flew on to Bahrain

[@Badgersj]

I knew him when I was a child. I didn't understand all this stuff about Concorde, he was just a friend of my parents. One of those grown-ups who was fun and funny. However he destroyed my belief in Father Christmas. Christmas Eve, grown-ups party downstairs, my brother and I in bed, and Brian's distinctive voice came bellowing up the stairs, 'SHALL WE TAKE THE PRESENTS UP NOW?'...
sigh.

[@AmbitiousGuess]

Brilliant video! I always thought he came across moody, but he was a nice quiet, reserved man who hates attention and fuss, just trying to get on with a very stressful, high pressure job without being stopped and asked stupid, basic questions every minute.

[@bblaylk]

Agreed, 100%, the questions being sub-basic at times! What a pain in his tail, but he handled it well.

[@t.p.mckenna]

Just private. Very hard to live life in the public eye and have to be part of a circus.

[@silverliteway]

Seeing a calendar for 1968 in his office just looks so remarkable to me even though I cognisantly know it's an old clip this just leaves me feeling more that I'm actually going back in time - loved this clip sad elements honest raw and so real.

[@MrGman2804]

My dad went on a couple of the many Concorde proving flights. I still have the certificates. It is amazing to think I was a child when this first flew, I was 40 when it retired and 60 years after it was conceived and 21 years after it retired, there is nothing else that can match it or even get close. An amazing aircraft regardless of the cost.

[@royston9883]

A hero of mine , I’m lucky to own his pilot’s licence , the 002 maiden flight Oil painting that hung on his study wall , and other items from his study.

[@brendawg8002]

Really? That's amazing!

[@LeoMB90]

Omg where'd you get those??? An auction?

[@IndaloMan]

Seeing him get out of a 206A on pop-outs reminded me of the Summer of 76 when I flew all over the UK in G-AVTE piloted by the late, great Dick Meston #goodolddays

[@aussierc6788]

The part around 12:07 where John is getting his eyes checked, the reason why I grew up knowing I could not be a professional pilot. Excellent vision in one eye, poor vision in the other. Always got me down occasionally growing up, but hey, that's the way it is. Great documentary.

[@twentyrothmans7308]

My friend's 94, and the RAF wouldn't let him fly, even though he could glide.
He's philosophical about it.

[@stephenking9271]

Could watch this era over & over again!
IMO BTrub was typical senior individual who was extremely well respected & typical old school English.
Air Force & Aviation industry bred them that way. However you can see a humerus side of his character & more than likely quietly jelled to the interest he was receiving from the Concorde.
Fantastic video & wow appreciation even more so once you see & gain more knowledge in the full background to what was involved with the Concorde.
Why has it never been replicated or bettered until today because it can’t be done!
What they achieved back then was INCREDIBLE & IMO taking into account the era Concorde is absolutely right up there as one of our greatest achievements.

[@raflaughter3474]

He grew up in Llanelli, which is the same town I grew up in. I don't think there is a memorial or a plaque there to show his tie to the town (and because of Brian, the town's connection with Concorde). Having said that, I haven't been there for many years and the last time I was it had become run down with shops closed. I never even knew he lived there until long after I moved to England and met someone who knew him personally. As soon as this chap mentioned Llanelli, my eyes lit up.

[@Samuel-gc6js]

The video cameras they used in the 70s are really good. Quality of this video is great

[@pradolover]

This is all film, BBC used it for most non-ENG outdoor stuff until the 1990s.

[@brianfearn4246]

Fabulous video. I Carnt believe it's been over 50 years since all this great stuff happened .

[@ahuman9864]

You can tell these blokes are all mind because when they talk, they don’t move. Just eye and mouth movement

[@stuartmiller7419]

A brilliant documentary. Thank you so much for uploading. As Brian would have said, I'm feeling pretty 'bucked' right now. 🙂 Going to watch again.

[@brianfearn4246]

The VC10 was also a fabulous aircraft which for many years was in service with the Royal Air force which unlike the civil version the passengers sat facing rearward.

[@muttley8818]

The VC10 featured here is G-ASGO. One of BOAC's. She was hijacked on a flight from Bombay to London in 1974. She was diverted to Amsterdam and landed there. Hijackers started a fire onboard and she was written off due to the damage.

[@ianjohnson1920]

Fascinating programme. You just dont see any in-looks like this, on new technology, in modern tv.

[@highpeakbirds6685]

Brilliant, the best thing Ive seen on you tube in a long time

[@mrceleb2006]

CBC also had a TV series called 'Man Alive' unrelated to this BBC version, hosted by Roy Bonisteel, and later, Arthur Kent!

[@sammyhawkins5590]

When we lived in zambia, we went on holiday to kenya, were we met the chief engineer from the concorde program, who happened to be on holiday there. As we used to fly a lot from Heathrow he said that the next time your there ask for me and ill show you around concord. He was as good as his word. The cockpit was a lot smaller than I'd imagined, but still a beautiful aircraft.

[@globalnomad450]

Yep, it can be fair to say even in those days, the press were a pain in the butt.

[@stuartmiller7419]

Exactly my thought. Same stupid questions but delivered using posher voices. 😁

[@brooklyndrive]

Brilliant!

[@Seminal_Ideas]

What a wonderfully unassuming man.

[@prof.hectorholbrook4692]

Excellent.

[@turboslag]

The epitomy of pragmatism! Very ironic that the first test flight was in France, obviously due to maneuvering by the French, and the accident which finished Concorde was also in France. I consider myself very fortunate to have flown by Concorde four times and each time it felt very special. Such a pity that it ended as it did, otherwise it may still have been flying now.

[@tikkathreebarrels]

Oh that music.... I'm a teenager again!

[@dave74700]

The stuff of legends.

[@bitukukuasukgremany3]

Love it

[@johnathandaviddunster38]

Brilliant bit of French engineering 🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🇧🇪

[@apieceofdirt4681]

Trubshaw picked the wrong thing to be a part of if he was such a quiet, no need for attention, man. As big of a deal as Concorde was back in the day, I think he knew exactly what he was getting into.

[@Rasscasse]

I think he honestly thought, that at the beginning, people would do as he said and stay away.
But he soon realised that he couldn’t control the media

[@paddyhague683]

He tolerated the journalists - just about - I wonder what he would make of today’s media.

[@Firebrand55]

Technicians working all night.....ah...I remember it well........

[@daveworthing2294]

Bloody press.

[@peterphosphate5436]

What happened to Cochrane? - He came across as a smart cookie. He was obviously Scottish.

[@tanyano9]

Died in 2006

[@gmf121266]

A plane so advanced it looks futuristic 56 years on, flown by men born 100 years ago at a time when colour television was new and computers were far less powerful than a modern wristwatch. I will just allow that idea to settle in.

[@mrrocket400]

is this the brookland concorde

[@scarecrow108productions7]

@RedLiver
Yep. The Filton Concorde Prototype. G-BSST

[@MegaJackpot180]

no this is the first prototype 002 the brooklands one is G-BBDG (202) first pre production used as a test aircraft built at filton in 1974

[@EnglishLawyer]

Trubshaw may have been a great test pilot but a hopeless public relations man.

[@Rasscasse]

They should’ve had a media person between Trubshaw and press, so that he could be left to get on with the job. It wasn’t his job to be a public relations officer.

[@UAL320]

Bannister….there’s a public relations man.