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January 1949 Lieutenant Commander E. M. Brown, OBE, DSC, AFC is awarded at the King's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air [79] In his book Wings on My Sleeve, Brown records his admiration of a number of colleagues who deserve recognition:- harmonization of the controls and the responsiveness and the effectiveness of them was not as good as the sophisticated ones today. But it was—they were such that it made you feel right at home. The airplane felt part of you is the best way I can describe it.

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Eric 'Winkle' Brown: The man who seemed not to notice danger". Bbc.co.uk. 14 November 2014 . Retrieved 21 February 2016. The Daily Telegraph Book of Military Obituaries. Vol.3. 2016. Archived from the original on 13 October 2005. a b c d e Holland, James (14 October 2015). The War in the West: Volume 1: The Rise of Germany, 1939–1941. Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated. pp.75–9. ISBN 978-0-8021-9090-1.you go through training and when the instructors, the hierarchy, feel that you're qualified to fly an airplane by yourself and do a certain job, ready to go to operational training, they say "OK, you're entitled to receive the coveted wings." And in January of 1951, I got the wings and I have to say that my wings were pinned on my sleeve because naval aviators wore their wings on their sleeve. Captain 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. [2] [3] [4]

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Brown's last credits mention Lewis Boddington, Dr. Thomlinson, John Noble and Charles Crowfoot, whom he records (with "others") as being responsible for "giving the Royal Navy a technical lead in aircraft carrier equipment which it still holds to this day [1978]." He ends this section: "These men and women were civil servants, but they worked hours, took responsibility, and produced results far beyond what their country paid them for. To me they represent the true measure of Britain's greatness." [60] Books [ edit ] Desert Island Discs: Captain Eric 'Winkle' Brown". www.bbc.co.uk. BBC . Retrieved 12 September 2020. 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. World's greatest' aviator Eric Winkle Brown dies at 97". Edinburgh News. 21 February 2016 . Retrieved 21 February 2016.

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Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet. Brown was one of few pilots to successfully fly one of these, having signed a disclaimer for the German ground crew. [63]

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On 24 February 2015 Brown delivered the University of Edinburgh Mountbatten Lecture, entitled "Britain's Defence in the Near Future". [73] Speaking at the Playfair Library, he warned: "They [the Russians] are playing a very dangerous game of chess. ... They are playing it to the hilt. It may develop into that. It is certainly showing the same signs as what caused the Cold War." [74] Audacity was torpedoed and sunk on 21 December 1941 by the German submarine U-751, commanded by Gerhard Bigalk. [13] The first rescue ship left because of warnings of a nearby U-boat, and Brown was left in the sea overnight with a dwindling band of survivors, until he was rescued the next day. [4] He was the one of two of the 24 to survive the hypothermia; the rest succumbed to the cold. [14] Of the complement of 480, 407 survived, [ citation needed]

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Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-1-g862e Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9896 Ocr_module_version 0.0.14 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-2000532 Openlibrary_edition Really enjoyed this book, knew quite a bit about him anyway as he is a hero of mine. They really don’t make them like him anymore . Maybe if you aren’t as familiar with aircraft and ww2 as I am you may have to refer to the glossary but I think this is a book aimed at a niche group of people.Subsequently, Brown and Martindale, along with several other members of the Aerodynamics Flight and assisted by a co-operative German pilot, later ferried twelve Ar 234s across the North Sea and on to Farnborough. The venture was not without risk, as before their capture, the Germans had destroyed all the engine log books for the aircraft, leaving Brown and his colleagues no idea of the expected engine hours remaining to the machines. Because of the scarcity of the special high-temperature alloys for use in their construction, the Junkers Jumo 004 engines had a life of only 25 hours – it was thus not known whether the engines were brand new or just about to expire. [27] urn:lcp:wingsonmysleeve0000unse:epub:89af8381-2e2b-4cbd-a80b-e537f1ddf697 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier wingsonmysleeve0000unse Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s28978h78jq Invoice 1652 Isbn 9781407244518 a b "Guild News" (PDF). Gapan.org. June 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 April 2012 . Retrieved 14 November 2014.

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