On October 1 Turcat was at the controls of 001 for its first supersonic flight and he was the first to fly it at Mach 2 (twice the speed of sound). Turcat, as director of flight testing for the project, conducted the rest of the French side of the Concorde test programme with Trubshaw being the chief test pilot on the parallel British side. The two men formed a close working relationship and friendship and in 1971 were jointly awarded the Ivan Kincheloe Award by the Society of Experimental Test Pilots for their work on the Concorde programme.