Brown, Eric (1981). The Helicopter in Civil Operations. Van Nostrand Reinhold. ISBN 978-0-24611-221-7. Eric Brown had an amazing life, full of daring adventures and a lot of flying hundreds of different aircraft. You can see the survivor bias at work: dozens of narrow escapes from death, while many a friend is killed in the line of duty. It makes for good stories. The book left me feeling that Brown was obsessive about, even addicted to flying. Something he admits briefly. Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown, second right, with other pilots at Farnborough, Hampshire. Photograph: BBC/Eric Brown

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The British Interplanetary Society: Sir Arthur Clarke Awards 2005–2014". British Interplanetary Society. 5 April 2013. Archived from the original on 20 February 2016 . Retrieved 23 February 2016. Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-1-g862e Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9896 Ocr_module_version 0.0.14 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-2000532 Openlibrary_editionThis autumn, Farm for the Future run by The Royal Countryside Fund is offering farming families free support, guidance and advice on business and environmental management. Winkle’s skills became so well known that he was assigned to test “rogue aircraft,” death-laden types such as the Fairey Barracuda or the Avro Tutor, in a desperate attempt to “winkle out” the faulty flight characteristics. In November 2014 he was the guest for the 3,000th edition of BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs. During the programme, the 95-year-old said that he still enjoyed driving and had just bought himself a new sports car. His musical choices included " At Last" by the Glenn Miller Orchestra and " Amazing Grace" by the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards. His favourite was " Stardust" by Artie Shaw and His Orchestra. [72] This is the autobiographic career of Eric Brown, one of the most experienced test pilots in the world. This daring person spoke German fluently and was in Germany when they and Britain went to war against each other in WWII. He survived the Gestapo arrest, a sinking ship, and multiple airplanes crashes. He has tested almost every plane type during WWII not only British but American, German, Japanese, and Italian. He interrogated important German figures in the aviation industry after the fall of Berlin. Maybe I am wrong, but I felt that this guy had a high admiration for his German enemies. He always tried to understand them and he even worked with a lot of them after the war showing high respect to them.

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During this period, Brown was asked by Brigadier Glyn Hughes, the Medical Officer of the British Second Army occupying the newly liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, to help interrogate the former camp commandant and his assistant. [28] Agreeing to do so, he soon interviewed Josef Kramer and Irma Grese, and remarked upon the experience by saying that; "Two more loathsome creatures it is hard to imagine" and further describing the latter as "...the worst human being I have ever met." Kramer and Grese were later tried and hanged for war crimes. [29] [30] Post-war career [ edit ] The captured Heinkel He 177 A-5 variant in British markings flown by Brown at Farnborough in September 1944World's greatest' aviator Eric Winkle Brown dies at 97". Edinburgh News. 21 February 2016 . Retrieved 21 February 2016.