Interesting article today in the Daily Mail (sorry!) about RN pilot, Eric Brown…he holds the world record for carrier landings (2,407) and for the number of different type of planes flown (487), including the Me 163.

Being a fluent german speaker he was asked to interrogate the SS guard Irma Grese “the Beats of Belsen” and described her as “the worst human being I have ever met”.

He would have broken mach 1 before Chuck Yeager in the 1,000 mph Miles M.52, which was cancelled by the new labour government to save money with one of the three protoptypes more than 80% complete.

He’s just written his autobiography “Wings on my sleeve” at the age of 94 and I am sure well worth a read.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2320463/ROBERT-HARDMAN-Hero-Captain-Eric-Winkle-Brown-makes-Biggles-look-like-wimp-tells-story.html