Captain Eric "Winkle" Brown

[JDCAVE]

I did a Youtube search on Captain Eric "Winkle" Brown and spent an enjoyable time viewing some of these videos:

Captain Eric "Winkle" Brown

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=captain+eric+winkle+brown

Definitely worth a browse. Notable was his admiration for the Me.262 and the Mosquito.

Jim

 

[Capt. Vick]

...and Terry's favorite, the Wildcat/Martlet

 

[pbehn]

There is an hour long documentary on Eric Brown, called, Britain's Greatest Pilot : The extraordinary story of Captain Eric "Winkle" Brown. The most remarkable thing is that if you take all aviation related tales out of his life story it is still a story that would make a great but highly unlikely movie. The link is below I dont know if all can access it.

BBC Two - Britain's Greatest Pilot: The Extraordinary Story of Captain Winkle Brown, Captain Winkle Brown's personal archives - 1941 Hepcat in a Wildcat

A look through Captain Winkle Brown's personal archives

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[JDCAVE]

There is an hour long documentary on Eric Brown, called, Britain's Greatest Pilot : The extraordinary story of Captain Eric "Winkle" Brown. The most remarkable thing is that if you take all aviation related tales out of his life story it is still a story that would make a great but highly unlikely movie. The link is below I dont know if all can access it.

BBC Two - Britain's Greatest Pilot: The Extraordinary Story of Captain Winkle Brown, Captain Winkle Brown's personal archives - 1941 Hepcat in a Wildcat

A look through Captain Winkle Brown's personal archives

www.bbc.co.uk

It came up for me "Not currently available" but there other documentaries of similar length as well as 1 hour 40 minute hour presentation that he gave to the Royal Aeronautical Society.

There is a short clip on the "Harmony of Control" mentioning the Lancaster. He said "this was an aircraft just asking to be flown." Dad spoke about the wonderful control and feel for the aircraft. Somehow I don't think the same could be said about the B-29, which reputedly was an extraordinarily difficult aircraft to fly.



Jim

 

[J_P_C]

Great Man with great story - nothing more needs to be said...

 

[AMCKen]

It came up for me "Not currently available" but there other documentaries of similar length as well as 1 hour 40 minute hour presentation that he gave to the Royal Aeronautical Society.

There is a short clip on the "Harmony of Control" mentioning the Lancaster. He said "this was an aircraft just asking to be flown." Dad spoke about the wonderful control and feel for the aircraft. Somehow I don't think the same could be said about the B-29, which reputedly was an extraordinarily difficult aircraft to fly.



Jim

Yep, all I get is

 

[JDCAVE]

Bump!

Does anyone know if there if his logbooks were digitized and available for download anywhere?

Edit: evidently they are held by the National Museum of the Royal Navy.

Pilot Eric 'Winkle' Brown's medals unveiled by Navy museum

Medals awarded to the Royal Navy's most decorated pilot, Captain Eric "Winkle" Brown, are unveiled in Somerset.

www.bbc.com

Jim

 

[Barrett]

Once again I'm late to the party, and I've mentioned this elsewhere but will repeat anyway.

I was fortunate to know Eric and Lynn--we exchanged visits Over There and Over Here. Early 1980s I hosted them at the Champlin Fighter Museum in Arizona, and when we entered the WW II hangar Eric immediately sighted the Wildcat, spread his arms wide, and exclaimed "Ah, the love of my life!"

You could feel the temperature drop 10 deg. F.

Eric immediately added, "Except for you my dear!"

Lynn shot him a sideways glance. "Nice recovery!"

Just marvelous folks.

 

[SebAce049]

I'm currently reading "Wings On My Sleeve", very enjoyable read; will watch the BBC doc after.