Recent content by TigerSnake

Now the discussion IS getting ridiculous... Brown has the USN...RAF...RN...RAE...Grumman and a whole host of other 'Aviation Amateurs' behind him and his test findings! I was hoping for some learned and well thought out banter on the subject...I rest my case. Thank you one and all!

Funny how all the 'Armchair Experts' never mention Russian aircraft when blathering about the merits of WWII Fighters!! The Party Line seems to be P51s and the 'Also-Rans'. The Yak3s and La7s ran rings around ALL the Luftwaffe piston engined fighters in air combat....NOT only when they had...

BLAH BLAH!!! At the end of the day it was NUMBERS!!!! The P47s all but neutralised the Luftwaffe (ashes to my tongue but true) then the SWARMS of allied (including over 60,000 Il2s and Yaks!!!) aircraft flown by well trained, keen young pilots finished them off! Forget the heroic...

Tra la la! easy to call a man a liar when you don't agree with him! Brown was an EXCEPTIONAL pilot!!! More types flown than ANY OTHER pilot! More DECK LANDINGS than any other pilot! He was the test pilot's test pilot! For 'Arm Chair' pilots to criticise a man of his stature is...

I leave this stuff to the 'Down to earth'' Pragmatic' EXPERTS!!! EX-RN CAPT. Eric "Winkle" Brown is a living legend among the global test-pilot fraternity, with unrivalled experience since 1939 in an incredible variety of fixed and rotary-wing aircraft. He graduated from carrier-based fighter...