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Old 27th May 2014, 16:32
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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
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