Yep, he is one of those so charismatic people and has flown everything under the sun, ME163 Komet, Do355 to name a couple of the enemy aircraft he evaluated post war, heck he even did the undercarriage-less trials on the flexible carrier deck...
Your jaw will drop when you see the types he has flown, be prepared to do a bit of scrolling
Types flown
List of aircraft flown by Eric "Winkle" Brown - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
More details of the show here
BBC Two - Britain's Greatest Pilot: The Extraordinary Story of Captain Winkle Brown
I am staggered he has never been knighted