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Title: Met one of my heros today
Post by: Western on August 30, 2014, 10:12:57 PM

Hi all,
Yes I'm still around just with my son on school hols had no time to myself.
Anyway today I went to the airshow at Shoreham mainly to see the Canadian Lancaster which sadly went u/s yesterday and the Vulcan which did turn up.
I was wandering around the various trade stands and a book stall was Captain Eric ' Winkle' Brown signing books one of which I duly bought and spoke to him for a couple of minutes. Really made my day.
Regards, Mark

Title: Re: Met one of my heros today
Post by: Coyote on August 30, 2014, 10:21:49 PM

Bob one of the lads ( He`s 65 ) was at Teeside to see the same plane, he bumped into the same chap. He said he was a great storyteller who captivated everyone there and drew a huge crowd. I admit I know nothing of him, but sounds a character.

Title: Re: Met one of my heros today
Post by: Brucey on August 31, 2014, 06:21:30 AM

I read his book on holiday, sound like a great guy

Title: Re: Met one of my heros today
Post by: Gundummy on August 31, 2014, 09:26:32 AM

Captain (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_%28Royal_Navy%29) Eric Melrose "Winkle" Brown, RN (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Navy), CBE (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commander_of_the_Most_Excellent_Order_of_the_British_Empire), DSC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distinguished_Service_Cross_%28United_Kingdom%29), AFC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Force_Cross_%28United_Kingdom%29), Hon FRAeS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Aeronautical_Society) (born 21 January 1919) is a British former Royal Navy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Navy) officer and test pilot (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_pilot) who, in testing 487 different types of aircraft, has flown more types of aircraft than anyone else in history.^[1]^[2] He also holds the world record (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinness_World_Records) for most aircraft carrier (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_carrier) landings performed (2,407)^[1] and is the Fleet Air Arm (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleet_Air_Arm)'s most decorated living pilot.^[3]

^{Well hats off to wikipedia!!}

Title: Re: Met one of my heros today
Post by: FPVSteve on August 31, 2014, 06:27:42 PM

And hats off to Eric Melrose Brown by the sounds of it - what a life.

Title: Re: Met one of my heros today
Post by: Western on August 31, 2014, 07:22:02 PM

He flew 489 types of aircraft add to this different marks, he flew 14 different marks of Spitfire alone.

Title: Re: Met one of my heros today
Post by: iwan_canobi on September 01, 2014, 12:06:51 AM

There was a BBC documentary on about him a few months ago, what a guy, he can certainly say he's lived!

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