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Bookmark or Share- OBITUARY: Capt Eric "Winkle" Brown, legendary test pilotOne of history’s greatest military aviators, Capt Eric “Winkle” Brown, who has died at the age of 97, was a hugely talented pilot who unquestionably also owed at least part of his longevity to a...
- Eric Brown (pilot) - WikipediaCaptain Eric Melrose "Winkle" Brown, CBE, DSC, AFC, Hon FRAeS [1] (21 January 1920 – 21 February 2016) was a British Royal Navy officer and test pilot who flew 487 types of aircraft, more than anyone else in history.
- Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown: The Extraordinary Life of ... - History HitCaptain Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown’s extraordinary flying career saw him shoot down Luftwaffe bombers from the deck of a carrier in the Battle of Britain, narrowly escape death on a torpedoed aircraft carrier, achieve a litany of new and never-to-be-repeated world records and firsts as a test pilot, and fly over 400 different kinds of aircraft ...
- Remembering Test Pilot Eric Melrose “Winkle” BrownEric "Winkle" Brown was an experimental test pilot who flew 487 different types of aircraft, more than any pilot in history. He was also a British Royal Navy officer who landed more aircraft on carriers than anybody else in the world, a total of 2,407 landings.
- Today in Aviation History: The First Jet Takeoff and Landing on an ...For this pioneering flight, Eric “Winkle” Brown was made an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) on February 19, 1946. Brown would retire from the Royal Navy in 1970 with the rank of Captain, having served in the RN since 1939. He would also be recognized as having flown 487 different types of airplanes, more than ...
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