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Captain 'Winkle' Brown: Is he the greatest pilot ever?
BBC Scotland ^
| 23rd April 2013
| Emma Ailes
Posted on 04/23/2013 10:57:53 AM PDT by the scotsman
'Captain Eric 'Winkle' Brown has flown more types of aircraft than anyone in history, survived 11 crashes, interrogated high-ranking Nazis, and met everyone from wartime leader Winston Churchill to first man on the moon, Neil Armstrong.
He is a war hero in the truest sense of the word. Now aged 94, the Edinburgh-born fighter pilot says he has finally "buckled down to domestic life".'
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To: the scotsman
Props to Chuck Yeager! Literally! LOL
To: A.A. Cunningham
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posted on
04/23/2013 11:03:30 AM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
To: the scotsman
I saw this guy interviewed about test flying an ME 163....he has some big brass hangin between his rudder pedals.....
To: the scotsman
I have in my library his "Wings of the Luftwaffe" which is Brown's memoir/pilots reports of all the German planes he tested immediately after the war.
One of the most informative and fascinating flying books ever.
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posted on
04/23/2013 11:06:26 AM PDT
by
Notary Sojac
('Institutions will try to preserve the problems to which they are a solution.' - Clay Shirky)
To: the scotsman
Nope Bill Tiger Destefani
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posted on
04/23/2013 11:06:49 AM PDT
by
al baby
(Hi Mom)
To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
My pick would be Jimmy Doolittle.
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posted on
04/23/2013 11:11:24 AM PDT
by
Notary Sojac
('Institutions will try to preserve the problems to which they are a solution.' - Clay Shirky)
To: Notary Sojac
Was he the pilot of that ONE WAY mission ending in China?
To: the scotsman; All
A direct refutation of the old adage that "There are bold pilots, and there are old pilots, but there are no bold, old pilots.."
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posted on
04/23/2013 12:20:20 PM PDT
by
ken5050
(My tagline has mysteriously vanished...)
To: the scotsman
He also did the first landing of a
Seafire (navalized Spitfire) on an escort carrier.
Plan was to do the first landing with as much wind over deck as possible, then gradually repeat at lower WOD intil it became too hairy.
Didn't quite go to plan http://books.google.com.au/books
Less than 15knots WOD, well off the centreline, arrestor wires flat on deck. (They took most of the test program as "Done")
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posted on
04/23/2013 7:06:59 PM PDT
by
Oztrich Boy
(RIP Chrissie Amphlett.)
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