A look back at Prince Philip's remarkable life
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 ...
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