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Not only did Brown not have the benefit of high-tech simulators, but flew the aircraft with the benefit of a slide rule rather than the array of modern computers available today. He was also one of the first test pilots to attach notes to his leg, helping remind him which one he was flying. a b "Guild News" (PDF). Gapan.org. June 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 April 2012 . Retrieved 14 November 2014. Testing up to eight different aircraft a day by 1944, word of this fearless flier began to spread, and towards the end of the War it had reached the ears of Winston Churchill, who singled him out for a special task. BBC Two – Britain's Greatest Pilot: The Extraordinary Story of Captain Winkle Brown (at 05:35 of the documentary)". bbc.co.uk. 1 January 1970. Retrieved 1 June 2014.
Eric 'Winkle' Brown: The man who seemed not to notice danger". Bbc.co.uk. 14 November 2014 . Retrieved 21 February 2016. Captain Eric Melrose "Winkle" Brown, CBE , DSC , AFC, Hon FRAeS [1] (21 January 1920 – 21 February 2016) was a British Royal Navy officer and test pilot who flew 487 types of aircraft, more than anyone else in history. [2] [3] [4] Audacity was torpedoed and sunk on 21 December 1941 by the German submarine U-751, commanded by Gerhard Bigalk. [13] The first rescue ship left because of warnings of a nearby U-boat, and Brown was left in the sea overnight with a dwindling band of survivors, until he was rescued the next day. [4] He was the one of two of the 24 to survive hypothermia; the rest succumbed to the cold. [14] Of the complement of 480, 407 survived, [ citation needed]
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It was while on this mission that Brown’s War took quite a different turn. Fluent in German he was asked to accompany a medical unit to help liberate Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. The experience was to affect him deeply for the rest of his life including interrogating Hermann Göering, founder of the Gestapo and other senior members of the Nazi regime. Having been born in Leith, near Edinburgh, Brown went on to become a student at Edinburgh University studying modern languages – with an emphasis on German. While there, he became a stuntman rider to earn extra money. One of his more memorable feats was his ride in a ‘wall of death’ with a lion in his motorbike sidecar. 3. He was a fluent German speaker, and interrogated Himmler and G öring
a b c Rawlinson, Kevin (21 February 2016). "Royal Navy's most-decorated pilot dies aged 97". The Guardian . Retrieved 23 February 2016. Test instrumentation on Brown's flight recorded during the oscillations accelerations of +4 and −3g's at 3Hz. Brown described the DH 108 as; "A killer. Nasty stall. Vicious undamped longitudinal oscillation at speed in bumps". [44] All three DH 108 aircraft were lost in fatal accidents. During the war, Brown’s fluency in German and expertise on aircraft made him valuable in interviewing many important figures, including captured German pilots – gathering crucial information about their aircraft, tactics and training. As a fellow airman, he knew the right questions to ask, consequently gaining invaluable insights. In 1954, Brown, by then a Commander in the Royal Navy, became Commander (Air) of RNAS Brawdy, where he remained until returning to Germany in late 1957, becoming Chief of British Naval Mission to Germany, his brief being to re-establish German naval aviation after its pre-war integration with and subornation to, the Luftwaffe. During this period Brown worked closely with Admiral Gerhard Wagner of the German Naval Staff. Training was conducted initially in the UK on Hawker Sea Hawks and Fairey Gannets, and during this time Brown was allocated a personal Percival Pembroke aircraft by the Marineflieger, which, to his surprise, the German maintenance personnel took great pride in. It was, in fact, the first exclusively naval aircraft the German Navy had owned since the 1930s. [53] Brown led the re-emergence of naval aviation in Germany to the point that in 1960 Marineflieger squadrons were integrated into NATO.
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On 24 February 2015, Brown delivered the University of Edinburgh Mountbatten Lecture, entitled "Britain's Defence in the Near Future". [73] Speaking at the Playfair Library, he warned: "They [the Russians] are playing a very dangerous game of chess. ... They are playing it to the hilt. It may develop into that. It is certainly showing the same signs as what caused the Cold War." [74] Paisley University Library Special Collections – Putnam Aeronautical 1997". Archived from the original on 4 March 2009 . Retrieved 4 November 2014. {{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown ( link) My favourite in the piston engine (era) is the de Havilland Hornet. For the simple reason it was over-powered. This is an unusual feature in an aircraft, you could do anything on one engine, almost, that you could do on two. It was a ' hot rod Mosquito' really, I always described it as like flying a Ferrari in the sky.
Sikorsky R-4B Hoverfly - first helicopter flown by Brown, learned to fly it from aircraft manual. [76] [77] Desert Island Discs: Captain Eric 'Winkle' Brown". www.bbc.co.uk. BBC . Retrieved 12 September 2020. List of Articles and publications by Eric Brown via https://web.archive.org/web/20110110021804/http://www.theaviationindex.com/ a b "Eric Brown references, articles and publications". Theaviationindex.com. Archived from the original on 9 June 2011 . Retrieved 14 November 2014.The Daily Telegraph Book of Military Obituaries. Vol.3. 2016. Archived from the original on 13 October 2005.
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