The Daily Telegraph Book of Military Obituaries. Vol.3. 2016. Archived from the original on 13 October 2005. ll never get more dedicated or disciplined or fun-loving guys than naval aviators. They believe in what they're doing and to this day anyone that has been associated with the RCN and naval aviation is—remains very proud and very dedicated to it. Brown flew aircraft from Britain, the United States, Germany, the Soviet Union, Italy and Japan and is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as holding the record for flying the greatest number of different aircraft. The official record is 487, but includes only basic types. For example, Brown flew 14 versions of the Spitfire and Seafire and although these versions are very different they appear only once in the list. This list includes only aircraft flown by Brown as "Captain in Command". Ocr tesseract 5.2.0-1-gc42a Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9814 Ocr_module_version 0.0.18 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-2000744 Openlibrary_edition History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.”

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Captain Eric Brown discusses (episode 40 on Astrotalkuk.org) his private meeting with Yuri Gagarin in London on 13 July 1961. guess the finest would have to be receiving my wings. A lot of training leading up to there: eleven months at Centralia and receiving my pilot's wings with my mom and dad present for the graduation. That was my finest.

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Card covers (pbk), 296pp, b&w photos. Light wear on card edges/corners; a very good copy. Commander Eric "Winkle" Brown was the Royal Navy's star pilot. His career has covered every aspect of naval flying, and as a test pilot he was the first naval officer to head Aerodynamic Flight at Farnborough where he flew, in every variety of experimental work, all sorts of different aircraft. As well as describing his own career, also covers details of Fleet Air Arm. Brown wrote several books about his experiences, including ones describing the flight characteristics of the various aircraft he flew and an autobiography, Wings on My Sleeve, first published in 1961 and considerably up-dated in later editions. Other books were 'Wings of the Luftwaffe', 'Wings of the Weird and Wonderful' and 'Miles M.52' (with Dennis Bancroft). He was also the author of dozens of articles in aviation magazines and journals. [61]

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The training was in preparation for the Allied invasion's amphibious operations against Salerno, Sicily. If the landings had been a failure, the squadrons would have had to be evacuated by carrier. The book starts with a brief reference to his early life and after a brief description of life before the war we are taken into an endless "listing" of his flying experiences.This is the autobiographic career of Eric Brown, one of the most experienced test pilots in the world. This daring person spoke German fluently and was in Germany when they and Britain went to war against each other in WWII. He survived the Gestapo arrest, a sinking ship, and multiple airplanes crashes. He has tested almost every plane type during WWII not only British but American, German, Japanese, and Italian. He interrogated important German figures in the aviation industry after the fall of Berlin. Maybe I am wrong, but I felt that this guy had a high admiration for his German enemies. He always tried to understand them and he even worked with a lot of them after the war showing high respect to them. Robert F. Dorr (15 November 2013). Fighting Hitler's Jets: The Extraordinary Story of the American Airmen Who Beat the Luftwaffe and Defeated Nazi Germany. MBI Publishing Company. p.157. ISBN 978-1-61058-847-8. David Tate reminisces about receiving his wings as a naval aviator, landing aboard aircraft carriers, flying naval jets, and participating in anti-submarine missions with the Royal Canadian Navy. Having flown many aircraft in his illustrious and extensive career, Mr. Tate visits the Hawker Sea Fury, an aircraft he affectionately refers to as "his first love."

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Jones, Luke (14 November 2014). "Eric 'Winkle' Brown: The man who seemed not to notice danger". BBC News Magazine . Retrieved 14 November 2014. Brown, Eric (1981). The Helicopter in Civil Operations. Van Nostrand Reinhold. ISBN 978-0-24611-221-7. I tried to read this book after a lady at work recommended it. However, this kind of book is not for me. It is an auto-biography, and although his life and the events are probably very interesting, he is writing the book and he is not a writer, so this style of writing does not grab me and make me want to read more. The book starts in 1939 when Brown was on an exchange course in German from the University of Edinburgh. The Gestapo escorted him from Germany stating the two counties were now at war. Brown briefly covers his early life but most of the book is about his flying career. Brown was the most decorated flyer of WWII in RN history. He is the only man to have flown every type of plane flown or experimented with during WWII not only British but planes from the United States, Italy, Japan and Germany. Brown had more carrier take offs and landings than any other RN pilot. Early in the War he was stationed aboard the carrier HMS Audacity. During the war he was moved from flying combat missions to that of a test pilot. He tested the early British jets and even flew the Nazi jets. After the War he interviewed many Nazi leaders including Hermann Goering and Hanna Reitsch. January 1949 Lieutenant Commander E. M. Brown, OBE, DSC, AFC is awarded at the King's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air [79]

Condition: Very Good. Ships from the UK. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

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From 1951 to 1952 Brown was resident British test pilot at the US Navy’s air test centre at Patuxent River in Maryland. In the late 50s he helped re-establish the West German navy’s air arm and he concluded his service as commanding officer of the RN station at Lossiemouth, in Morayshire (1967-70). His many honours included a DSC (1942), MBE (1944), OBE (1945) and an Edinburgh University honorary PhD (2007). His nine books include Duels in the Sky (1989) and Testing for Combat (1994). The vice-president of the European Helicopter Association – he had first seen Reitsch flying one in 1938 – Brown continued to lecture and write into his 90s. List of Articles and publications by Eric Brown via https://web.archive.org/web/20110110021804/http://www.theaviationindex.com/ It was the start of a brilliant flight-testing career, one in which Winkle flew almost every type of Allied and Axis aircraft and became chief naval test pilot. Jimmy Doolittle has been called “the master of the calculated risk,” but Brown must be called the “master of the incalculable risk,” for he often had no more instruction in those foreign aircraft than a scrap of paper listing the English translations for their German, Italian, Russian or Japanese instrument markings. Of Winkle it can truly be said, “If he could fly one, he could fly them all.” Fluent in German, Brown helped interview many Germans after the Second World War, including Wernher von Braun and Hermann Göring, [35] Willy Messerschmitt, Ernst Heinkel [36] and Kurt Tank. However, he described the interviews as being minimal, due to the need to begin the Nuremberg trials, and limited to matters related to aviation. [4]

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Harrison, William A. (1998). "Fairey Firefly Variants". Wings of Fame. Westport, Connecticut: AIRTime Publishing. 12: 113. ISBN 1-880588-23-4. Winkle’s skills became so well known that he was assigned to test “rogue aircraft,” death-laden types such as the Fairey Barracuda or the Avro Tutor, in a desperate attempt to “winkle out” the faulty flight characteristics.