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Prince Philip yesterday took the controls of Concorde, the world s first supersonic airliner. Ten miles high over the Bay of Biscay, he flew the plane at 1,340mph twice the speed of sound. The Prince, in sports jacket and cavalry twill trousers, stayed at the controls for 30 minutes. His verdict: A very pleasant aircraft to fly nothing mysterious or complicated. The Duke of Edinburgh takes the controls of a Boeing 757 airliner during a demonstration flight near Seattle, Washington Prince Philip s rating from his Concorde instructor, chief test pilot Brian Trubshaw, was: A pretty polished performance. The Prince s 90 minutes and 1,150 miles in Concorde represented the final seal of approval for the £885million Anglo-French project, which six months ago was still a possible candidate for the Government s economy axe.

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