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Capt Eric "Winkle" Brown
Documentary BBC4 Thursday night 23 November. Not a repeat (it does not say it is anyway)
Sorry about small "c" - predictive text changed it and I did not notice. Mods - any chance of correcting please |
According to the Radio Times it is a repeat, but well worth viewing again.
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It is at10 pm UK time, will look again but did not see an "R" for repeat by the listing. Matron, bring my better glasses please
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And if you miss the 10pm slot, it's being shown again on BBC4 at 2am on Friday morning.
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That is what I thought the "R" was to do with. Silly me. Still one of the nicest people I ever met
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Just looked it up to set a record on my Sky box and the synopsis states he was an FAA pilot ? WTF ?
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He was a Fleet Air Arm pilot.
Tony |
Originally Posted by Wander00
(Post 9961386)
Documentary BBC4 Thursday night 23 November. Not a repeat (it does not say it is anyway)
Sorry about small "c" - predictive text changed it and I did not notice. Mods - any chance of correcting please As a legitimate licence payer (not by choice) I really despise liscence cheats almost as much as I despise paying the bbc... |
When I was working in Brussels in the 1980s BBC 1 and 2 were provided along with French, Dutch, German and Italian channels on the cable TV. So far as I know, the cable TV company received them off the air from receivers on the Belgian Coast. How do you know that Wander00 does not have a UK TV license anyway - he may well have a pied a terre in UK.
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Originally Posted by glad rag
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How are you watching the BBC in France? It is nationally restricted. I do hope you are not admitting to illegally circumventing those restrictions.
As a legitimate licence payer (not by choice) I really despise liscence cheats almost as much as I despise paying the bbc... |
First aired 1 June 2014 but definitely worth watching again.
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I watched this last night on iPlayer. Lovely documentary; it's a bit like reading his book, but with added film footage...
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I recorded and watched it. Fascinating to see that it was him being interviewed but there was sooooooo much missed out, like why he was one of the first allied soldiers into Bergen-Belsen and interviewing the commandant and they really glossed over his touring of Germany immediately post cessation of hostilities to try to find and fly as many German aircraft as possible.
Still, you have to expect some editing out of important stuff when trying to cover the life of someone like Winkle in just one hour. |
Originally Posted by roving
(Post 9962072)
Do you really think anyone cares a fig for your opinion?
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Originally Posted by Nigerian Expat Outlaw
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Just looked it up to set a record on my Sky box and the synopsis states he was an FAA pilot ? WTF ?
NEO NEO, Capt Brown learned to fly on a UAS-there is a very famous photo of him in RAF (VR)? Uniform with RAF wings-however after returning a trip to Germany prior to the declaration of war, there were no vacancies in the RAF-hence he joined the FAA. |
Originally Posted by Treble one
(Post 9969880)
NE, Capt Brown learned to fly on a UAS-there is a very famous photo of him in RAF (VR)? Uniform with RAF wings-however after returning a trip to Germany prior to the declaration of war, there were no vacancies in the RAF-hence he joined the FAA.
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Winkle Brown
Edinburgh University Air Squadron Association (a charity) are placing a statue of "Winkle" at Edinburgh Airport and this should be in place mid July. Plan also is to support a flight scholarship programme for less advantaged youngsters. Google EUAS Association for more information.
Monty |
Had the privileged of attending a dining-in night around 2007 when he was the top table guest of honour. Quite an amazing individual and very humbling to listen to his tales.
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I watched the documentary where he ran through his life story and I was quite literally wide eyed. He met and was then introduced to flying by Ernst Udet (no less), visited Berlin as a youngster in 1936 and attended the Olympics, was aboard a carrier which was sunk, was then the only survivor out of an entire lifeboat of men who sadly died of hypothermia, crashed a vampire and kept his legs by virtue of being so short he could pull them up out of the rudder wells (which were ripped away in the crash), interviewed Goering while imprisoned - the list goes on and on, his life reads like a Boy’s Own adventure. Truly an extraordinary man.
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He flew over 2,400 carrier deck landings, including the first jet landing etc. The USN, forever trying to catch up with the navy which invented such things as mirror landing lights; angled decks; steam cats etc) tasked some poor sod to try to match the world record. The poor wretch managed only 1,600 before suffering a nervous breakdown.
The list of aircraft types he flew as PIC is astonishing in its breadth, length and depth: Aeronca Grasshopper Aerospatiale Alouette Aerospatiale Ecureuil Aerospatiale Twin Squirrel Agusta 109 Aichi Val Airspeed Ambassador Airspeed Envoy Airspeed Horsa Airspeed Oxford Arado 96B Arado 196A Arado 199 Arado 232B Arado 234B - Blitz Arado 240 Armstrong Whitworth Albemarle Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Auster Aiglet Avro Anson Avro Athena Avro Lancaster Avro Lancastrian Avro Lincoln Avro Manchester Avro Shackleton Avro Tudor Avro Tutor Avro York B.A. Swallow BAe 125 BAe 146 BAe Hawk BAC Lightning Baynes Carrier Wing Beagle B.206 Beagle Pup Beech Baron Beech Bonanza Beech Super King Air Beech Traveller Beechcraft Expediter Bell AH-1 Huey Bell 47 Bell 204 Bell 222 Bell Airacobra Bell Airacomet Bell HTL-5 Bell Jet Ranger Bell King Cobra Bell Long Ranger Blackburn Beverley Blackburn Botha Blackburn Buccaneer Blackburn Firebrand Blackburn Firecrest Blackburn Roc Blackburn Shark Blackburn Skua Blohm & Voss 138 Blohm & Voss 141B Blohm & Voss 222 Wiking Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress Boeing B-29 Superfortress Boeing Vertol Chinook Boulton Paul Defiant Boulton Paul P.108 Boulton Paul Sea Balliol Brantly B-2 Breguet Alizé Breguet Atlantic Brewster Buffalo Bristol Beaufighter Bristol Beaufort Bristol Blenheim Bristol Bombay Bristol Brigand Bristol Britannia Bristol Buckingham Bristol Bulldog Bristol Freighter Bristol Sycamore Britten-Norman Islander Bücker Bestmann Bücker Jungmann Bücker Jungmeister Bücker Student Cant Z1007 Caproni Ca.309 Caproni Ca.311 Caproni Ca.135 Cessna 150 Cessna Cardinal Cessna Skymaster Cessna Skywagon Chance-Vought Corsair Chance-Vought Cutlass Chilton D.W.1 Chrislea Ace Comper Swift Consolidated Catalina Consolidated Liberator Consolidated Vultee Privateer Convair 240-5 Curtiss Commando Curtiss Helldiver Curtiss Kittyhawk Curtiss Mohawk Curtiss Seamew Curtiss Tomahawk Dassault Étendard Dassault Mirage Dassault Mystère de Havilland 86B de Havilland Beaver de Havilland Chipmunk de Havilland Comet de Havilland Devon de Havilland Don de Havilland Flamingo de Havilland Fox Moth de Havilland Gipsy Moth de Havilland Heron de Havilland Hornet Moth de Havilland Mosquito de Havilland Otter de Havilland Puss Moth de Havilland Rapide de Havilland Sea Hornet de Havilland Sea Mosquito de Havilland Sea Vampire de Havilland Sea Venom de Havilland Sea Vixen de Havilland Swallow de Havilland Tiger Moth de Havilland Vampire Dewoitine 520 DFS 230 DFS Kranich DFS Weihe Dornier 17 Dornier 18 Dornier 24 Dornier 26 Dornier 27 Dornier 217 Dornier 335 - 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