Brown sei am Sonntag nach kurzer Krankheit in einem Hospital in Südengland verschieden, teilte seine Familie mit. Later, with the German surrender, he assessed that generation of jets that the Nazis had begun deploying during the last year of the war and became the only non-German to fly – as opposed to glide – the Messerschmitt 163. In the jet age, the period of time when technology could be heroic, Eric “Winkle” Brown, who has died aged 97, was the archetypal test pilot. He then moved on to Yeovilton, in Somerset, the Gloster Gladiator and his first encounters with the Luftwaffe. Gleich zwei Weltrekorde hat Brown inne: Er flog 487 verschiedene Flugzeugtypen und landete 2407 Mal auf Flugzeugträgern. His naval combat flying effectively began in 1941 with 802 Squadron in a Grumman Martlet – in his book Wings on My Sleeve (1961), he called it “a tough, fiery, beautiful little airplane” – from HMS Audacity, the world’s first “auxiliary carrier” (a converted German banana boat) on Clydeside-Gibraltar convoys. “A fantastic opportunity had been missed,” wrote Brown. Felder aus. His mother, Euphemia (nee Melrose), died while he was at school. Er hat mehr Flugzeugtypen geflogen als jeder andere und landete als erster einen Jet auf einem Flugzeugträger. HINWEIS: Sie nutzen einen unsicheren und veralteten Browser! He made a record 2,407 aircraft carrier landings and was the most decorated pilot in the Fleet Air Arm (FAA). Brown hatte in den 1930er Jahren Deutsch gelernt. Between the late 30s and the 80s, Brown flew 487 types of aircraft, more than any other pilot has flown, or is likely to fly, in history. Eric Melrose „Winkle“ Brown (* 21. On 10 October 1948, over the Scilly Isles, a pilotless, scaled-down M52 achieved Mach 1.52. Brown besuchte die Royal High School in Edinburgh und anschließend die Edinburgh University, wo er Fremdsprachen studierte und mit 18 Jahren das Fliegen lernte. Diese Seite wurde zuletzt am 26. And that's just a part of his extraordinary life. He was born in Edinburgh. The vice-president of the European Helicopter Association – he had first seen Reitsch flying one in 1938 – Brown continued to lecture and write into his 90s. There would be a later stint with two Royal Canadian Air Force squadrons, taking in fighter sweeps over France, but his subsequent war service focused on testing – catapult launchers, deck landings but, most of all, aircraft themselves. In the 50s he passed Mach 1 (the speed of sound at any height) in American Sabre and British Hunter jets. Pilot Eric "Winkle" Brown holds two of the most startling records from the world of flying. Spanien – Auf Flughäfen droht Oster-Chaos, Boeing-Abstürze – "Blowback" könnte die Ursache sein, Zurückhaltung in Indien nach Pakistans "Geste des Friedens". The rocket-powered 163 was sensational, but, he wrote, “there was so much to get wrong and virtually no escape route”. The list was compiled and verified by the Guinness Book of Records. [3] Er interviewte dank seiner Deutschkenntnisse nach der Befreiung des Konzentrationslagers Bergen-Belsen dessen Kommandanten und in der Folgezeit viele deutsche Wissenschaftler, unter anderem Wernher von Braun, Alexander Lippisch und Dietrich Küchemann, Hellmuth Walter, Ernst Heinkel, Willy Messerschmitt und Kurt Tank.[4]. Nur mit einer Pistole bewaffnet nahm Brown im April 1945 eine operationelle Basis der deutschen Luftwaffe ein: 2000 deutsche Soldaten ergaben sich, nachdem er auf dem Flugplatz in der irrtümlichen Annahme gelandet war, die Deutschen wären schon abgezogen. His nine books include Duels in the Sky (1989) and Testing for Combat (1994). He is survived by their son, Glenn, and by his partner, Jean. Der britische Rekordpilot Eric Brown ist im Alter von 97 Jahren gestorben. In February 1946, the Ministry of Supply cancelled the M52 when it was 82% completed. His parents came from the Scottish borders and his father, Robert, had served in the first world war as an infantryman and as a Royal Flying Corps (RFC) balloon unit battlefront observer and pilot.