He also held the world record for the most carrier landings, 2,407, partly compiled in testing the arrestor wires on more than 20 aircraft carriers during the Second World War. 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] a b "Guild News" (PDF). Gapan.org. June 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 April 2012 . Retrieved 14 November 2014. Effect of the North American P-51 Mustang On the Air War in Europe". www.combatsim.com . Retrieved 18 December 2019.

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Paisley University Library Special Collections – Putnam Aeronautical 1997". Archived from the original on 4 March 2009 . Retrieved 4 November 2014. {{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown ( link)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] 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.

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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 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. 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]

Condition: Very Good. Ships from the UK. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects. 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] Brown read modern languages at Edinburgh, specialising in German, joined the university air squadron, and spent a year as an exchange teacher in France and in Germany, where he renewed his aquaintanceship with Udet and Reitsch. Meeting the latter after the war, Brown found that her fanatical loyalty to Hitler “made my blood run cold”. BBC Two – Britain's Greatest Pilot: The Extraordinary Story of Captain Winkle Brown (at 05:35 of the documentary)". bbc.co.uk. 1 January 1970. Retrieved 1 June 2014.

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In 1940 he took part in the Battle of Britain in a 250mph Gladiator biplane. During and after the second world war, he evaluated and tested the majority of the allied and axis warplanes and some Soviet planes as well – including the MiG-15. In April 1945, Brown, who was fluent in German, interrogated Josef Kramer, commandant of Belsen concentration camp; two months later he was interrogating Hermann Göring. 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. Legendary test pilot fears new cold war". Edinburghnews.scotsman.com. 25 February 2015 . Retrieved 24 February 2016.

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. Captain Eric Brown died 21 February 2016 at the age of 97 in Surry, England. Brown was born in Leth, Scotland in 1919. This renewed the interest in his memoir and various biographies about Brown. This memoir was originally published in 1961. It has recently been reprinted but also is now an e-book and audiobook. Overall it does little to tell us anything about the man and his extraordinary life and personality. It is sad that obituaries, interviews in his twilight years, and documentaries have given us tantalisingly brief insights into the humour, and character of a truly exceptional man. a b "Eric Brown references, articles and publications". Theaviationindex.com. Archived from the original on 9 June 2011 . Retrieved 14 November 2014.

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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. CAPT ERIC BROWN 21 January 1919 – 21 February 2016". Aeroplane. No.April 2016. Stamford: Key Publishing. pp.28–32. ISSN 0143-7240.Desert Island Discs: Captain Eric 'Winkle' Brown". www.bbc.co.uk. BBC . Retrieved 12 September 2020. History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.” 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. On completing the programme, Laura, a farmer from Staffordshire commented: “It is quite isolating on the farm – so it made us feel a part of the farming community.”