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This Day in Aviation[1]: "9 April 1969: Concorde 002, G-BSST ... made its first flight from Filton"; Trubshaw advanced the throttles at 2:22 p.m. and the aircraft landed at Fairford at 2:45 p.m. (British Standard Time, UTC+1 in 1969, so 13:22 to 13:45 UTC).Concorde 002, G-BSST, took off from Filton near Bristol on 9 April 1969 with Brian Trubshaw at the controls and landed at RAF Fairford, five weeks after French prototype 001 first flew.
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