Eric Winkle Brown's Lost Rare Interviews | The Greatest Test Pilot | Part 2
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- Eric Winkle Brown's lost rare interviews. TAPE 2
From pilot on a carrier to being sunk by a Nazi Germany submarine, to test pilot, and the first deck landing of a twin-engine aircraft in the world, a De Havilland Mosquito.
Probably the greatest test pilot that ever lived.
Eric "Winkle" Brown flew 487 Different Aircraft. Eric Brown is also the pilot who interrogated Hermann Göring in exchange for an aircraft.
Listen to his incredible life story.
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Captain Eric Melrose "Winkle" Brown, CBE, DSC, AFC, Hon FRAeS, RN (21 January 1919 - 21 February 2016) was a British Royal Navy officer and test pilot who flew 487 types of aircraft, more than anyone else in history.
Brown holds the world record for the most aircraft carrier deck take-offs and landings performed (2,407 and 2,271 respectively) and achieved several "firsts" in naval aviation, including the first landings on an aircraft carrier of a twin-engined aircraft, an aircraft with a tricycle undercarriage, a jet aircraft, and a rotary-wing aircraft.
He flew almost every category of Royal Navy and Royal Air Force aircraft: glider, fighter, bomber, airliner, amphibian, flying boat, and helicopter. During World War II, he flew many types of captured German, Italian, and Japanese aircraft, including new jet and rocket aircraft. He was a pioneer of jet technology in the postwar era.
Brown was born in Leith, near Edinburgh, in the United Kingdom. His father was a former balloon observer and pilot in the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and Brown first flew when he was eight or ten when he was taken up in a Gloster Gauntlet by his father, the younger Brown sitting on his father's knee.
In 1936 Brown's father took him to see the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. Hermann Göring had recently announced the existence of the Luftwaffe, and Brown and his father met and were invited to join social gatherings by members of the newly disclosed organization. At one of these meetings, Ernst Udet, a former World War I fighter ace, was fascinated to make the acquaintance of Brown senior, a former RFC pilot, and offered to take his son Eric up flying with him. Eric eagerly accepted the German's offer and after his arrival at the appointed airfield at Halle, he was soon flying in a two-seat Bücker Jungmann. He recalled the incident nearly 80 years later on the BBC radio program Desert Island Discs
You talk about aerobatics - we did every one I think and I was hanging on to my tummy. So, when we landed, and he gave me the fright of my life because we approached upside-down and then he rolled out just in time to land, he said to me as I got out of the cockpit, slapped me between the shoulder-blades, and gave me the old WW1 fighter pilots' greeting, Hals- und Beinbruch, which means broken neck and broken legs but that was their greeting. But he said to me, you'll make a fine fighter pilot - do me two favors: learn to speak German fluently and learn to fly.
During the Olympic Games Brown witnessed Hitler shaking hands with Jesse Owens.
In 1937, Brown left the Royal High School and entered the University of Edinburgh, studying modern languages with an emphasis on German. While there he joined the university's air unit and received his first formal flying instruction. In February 1938 he returned to Germany under the sponsorship of the Foreign Office, having been invited to attend the 1938 Automobile Exhibition by Udet, by then a Luftwaffe major general. He saw the demonstration of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61 helicopter flown by Hanna Reitsch before a small crowd inside the Deutschlandhalle. During this visit, he met and got to know Reitsch, whom he had also briefly met in 1936.
On returning to the United Kingdom then at war, he joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve before subsequently joining the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve as a Fleet Air Arm pilot, where he was posted to 802 Naval Air Squadron, initially serving on the first escort carrier, HMS Audacity, converted and thus named in July 1941. He flew one of the carrier's Grumman Martlets. During his service on board Audacity, he shot down two Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor maritime patrol aircraft, using head-on attacks to exploit the blind spot in their defensive armament.
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He must have been quite fit throughout his whole life. His memory and speech is very good. We are very fortunate to have this recording made.
Erics' autobiography is superb. So many tales.
These interviews are absolutely priceless.
Many thanks for sharing.
Glad you like them!
Keep coming back to hearing his stories, the guy is fascinating, captivating with such clarity and detail, just the skills you need as a test pilot!
I have much respect for this man because of his history and experiences testing out planes from both side, he always give his honest opinion of the capabilities of various planes he has flown after the war.
Fascinating stories and Eric is a fantastic story teller. Love this film!
We agree!
What a incredible human being. Possibly the best pilot of all time.! He even got to interrogate Herman Goering. He flew more differant kinds of aeroplane than any pilot in history.
What an extraordinary man. I wish I was as brave as him.
And lucky
to have survived!
Eric Brown is always interesting to listen to
Real life Superman.
An amazing man....and pilot..
Phenomenal life.
I never realised that the FW conder was so heavily armed. I assumed being an ex commercial that would be lightly armed as the airframe was not as robust as it should have been.
Not conder, condor.
Fascinating, a man of exceptional ability and also a man who killed many others, from the other side. I am sure he was troubled by the death of his opponents, he was a man of honour, we can only give him respect.
He seriously downplayed what he did with the Mosquito deck landing. In another video it was said the deck crew saw his wing tip cut through a wave top. He had to abort his first attempt. Yet again, Eric Brown “laughed” it off.
Talking about Kursk and Stalin - he certainly knew his background stuff as well. Must have had a hell of a guardian angel as well... Or several!
Kool.
I think he would have preferred you show him in his Royal Navy uniform.
is that a bubble canopy wildcat ?
I wondered that myself. Certainly looks to be.
Wrong uniform in the picture there - he was RN
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Briefly RAF at university, I seem to remember...
@@tellyknessis6229 Yes. He trained with the RAF but transferred to the navy when they were short of pilots.
He trained and soloed and with the Edinborough University Air Squadron before being called up for the RAF at Drem at the outset of the war. Applying soon after arriving at Drem he finally transferred the Royal Navy (RANVR) in December 1939 with about 100 flying hours before repeating flight training with the Navy Fleet Air Arm, adding another 120 hours, including some advanced training in recognition of his prior experience.
U-boats were the Scourge on the high seas, against British merchant fleet bringing home vital supplies of food / war material keeping the UK in the fight against the Nazis they were a constant worry for Churchill heavy losses in the early years were staggering vital goods and shipping plus the brave merchant sailors that went down with the ships, it was a fight to the death no quarter or mercy should have been shown, to U-boats or crew , they were the same as a ememy sniper and everyone on both sides knew how to treat them it was a matter of course , had they won they would have starved Britain out of the war, Which ment no help from the Americans we had to win at all costs .
Adolf Hitler kreigsmarine U-boats were the cream of the crop, commaderd by highly capable , dedicated captains professionals the best submariner's in the world , to others they were murdering wolfs, one mission to crush British resistance that could not be allowed as Eric winkle brown says, when a U-boat is caught on the surface you attack and kill everything in close vicinity hopefully the U-boat gets destroyed ,when caught on surface or under no mercy should have been shown the battle of the Atlantic was the only war Winston Churchill was concerned with.
A bit of US propaganda at the end. The British did far more with far less . Take the buccaneer and Vulcan that embarrassed the US defences in Red Flag exercise. The US aircraft that could not fight at altitude, until the P51, which had a similar Mach number as the British aircraft, got the British designed engine. Then the British Harrier, still used by the US, a clever design, that showed the way in 1982. The first aircraft to break the sound barrier was American, yes but made possible only by adopting the ideas shared by the British designers. Sadly lack of money has killed the British establishment now.