Wings on My Sleeve: The World's Greatest Test Pilot tells his story

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Assessing those achievements, Mark Bowman, chief test pilot at BAE Systems, said, "They didn't have the advantage of high-tech simulators. He expected to arrive at a liberated aerodrome, just after it had been taken by the British Army; however, German resistance to the Allied advance meant that the ground forces had been delayed and the airfield was still an operational Luftwaffe base.

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This is an understated and witty book with a laconic view of the air war, human foibles, the nature of courage and being (somewhat within safe boundaries) fearless. Audacity was torpedoed and sunk on 21 December 1941 by the German submarine U-751, commanded by Gerhard Bigalk. Back in Britain, and having been told by the RAF that “there was no rush for my services”, Brown enlisted in the FAA. Thomlinson, John Noble and Charles Crowfoot, whom he records (with "others") as being responsible for "giving the Royal Navy a technical lead in aircraft carrier equipment which it still holds to this day [1978].In the 1960s, due to his considerable experience of carrier aviation, Brown, while working at the Admiralty as deputy director of Naval Air Warfare, was consulted on the flight deck arrangement of the planned new UK class of aircraft carrier, the CVA-01, although the project was cancelled in 1966. It would have been nice to get more of a glimpse into this side of his life, but possibly his life outside of work was hopelessly dull, or he didn't have one. We build and maintain all our own systems, but we don’t charge for access, sell user information, or run ads.

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In February 1945, Brown learned that the Aerodynamics Flight had been allocated three Sikorsky R-4B Hoverfly/Gadfly helicopters. He never achieved the celebrity status that was afforded some of his friends and contemporaries in the 1940s and 50s. In 1937, Brown left the Royal High School and entered the University of Edinburgh, studying modern languages with an emphasis on German. He was still teaching at the outbreak of war, and was deported into Switzerland, complete with his MG sports car. His musical choices included " At Last" by the Glenn Miller Orchestra and " Amazing Grace" by the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards.The book itself is an autobiography up to the point of about 1970 when he retired from the Royal Navy. This is an unusual feature in an aircraft, you could do anything on one engine, almost, that you could do on two. Brown was one of few pilots to successfully fly one of these, having signed a disclaimer for the German ground crew.

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Later Brown enjoyed a brief three-month period as a test pilot for the Focke-Wulf company, helping them out until they could find a replacement after the company's previous test pilot had been detained due to having relatives in East Germany. Following the loss of Audacity, Brown resumed operational flying, being seconded to Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) squadrons flying escort operations to USAAF Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bombers over France. Brown was responsible for at least three important firsts in carrier aviation: the first carrier landing using an aircraft equipped with a tricycle undercarriage (the Bell Airacobra Mk 1 AH574) on the trials carrier HMS Pretoria Castle on 4 April 1945; the first landing of a twin-engined aircraft on a carrier (the Mosquito) on HMS Indefatigable (R10) on 25 March 1944; and the world's first carrier landing of a jet aircraft, landing the prototype de Havilland Vampire LZ551/G on the Royal Navy carrier HMS Ocean on 3 December 1945. But he said to me, you'll make a fine fighter pilot – do me two favours: learn to speak German fluently and learn to fly. Even the list of types Eric Winkle Brown flew in his career (more than any other pilot) had me drooling!He is very relaxed about the long period he spent as a test pilot and shrugs the obvious risk at a time when many of his colleagues were falling out of the sky during the test flying of the first jet aircraft and the first encounters with the sound barrier.