Wings on My Sleeve

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		Wings on My Sleeve
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Eric Brown was on a University of Edinburgh exchange course in Germany in 1939, and the first he knew of the war was when the Gestapo came to arrest him. They released him, not realizing he was a pilot in the RAF volunteer reserve: and the rest is history. Eric Brown joined the Fleet Air Arm and went on to be the greatest test pilot in history, flying more different aircraft types than anyone else. He is the only man alive who has flown every major (and most minor) combat aircraft of the Second World War as well as all the early jets. Speaking perfect German, he went to Germany in 1945 to test the Nazi jets, interviewing (among others) Hermann Goering and Hanna Reitsch. He flew the suicidally dangerous Me 163 rocket plane, and tested the first British jets. He would have been the first man to break the sound barrier, except that the British government cancelled the programme and gave the technology to America. His naval career continues to this day, as he advises on the new aircraft carrier design for the Royal Navy. A living legend among aviation enthusiasts, his amazing life story deserves to be told in full -- from crashing in front of Winston Churchill to unmasking a Neo-Nazi ring in the 1950s to his terrifying flights in primitive jets and rockets.

作者简介

Now 88, Captain Brown CBE, OBE, MBE, DSC, AFC, KCVSA became a test pilot during the Second World War and commanded the RAE Aerodynamics Flight at Farnborough. He played a key role in the design of an entire generation of aircraft.

网友对Wings on My Sleeve的评论

书的印刷质量不错，全铜版纸，插图也很多。
作者经历丰富，但写得有些流水账感觉，适合精通航空史的读者阅读。

Captain Brown is a great man, this is not a review of him, rather of the book. "Wings on My Sleeve" is a good account of Captain Brown's career from 1938 to the early 1970's. He had a very interesting life and flew a huge number of different aircraft. In many ways he was the UK's Chuck Yeager.

The book was written as a semi-official document by Brown for young naval cadets. It has an informative, slightly bureaucratic tone, just the facts. It will be interesting to those who know the aircraft types. Those who want to know a bit more about the man or his times will find it a bit lacking.

However, it is not an autobiography. From interviews, Brown seems like an expressive and entertaining man with strong opinions, not much of this comes through in this book. There is very little of his personal life, or his struggles with naval brass, or of his life after he left the navy.

This is a wonderful story by someone is isn't well known in the US. Winkle Brown flew more different types of aircraft than anyone in history. And the types he flew were incredible. Almost all of the WW2 fighters from each of the combatants. Including early jets and the German ME-163 rocket fighter. He was selected to fly the Miles supersonic research aircraft, which probably would have beaten the US X-1 through the sound barrier had it not been cancelled. His evaluations of these aircraft are of particular value, as he could compare each's performance with their contemporaries. What a wealth of information!

Unfortunately, I couldn't give this review 5 stars because the book binding is so bad. My first copy came apart within the first few readings and I have been VERY careful with the second. It looks like the binder just didn't use the right type, or amount of glue.

If you are in aviation, have been in aviation or have an interest in aviation, this is a fascinating read. It helps to understand some aviation terms to fully enjoy the book and it's told in event by event form rather than story form. Eric Brown has flown more types of aircraft and made more carrier landings than anyone and the man is still alive. After you read his flying adventures you'll wonder how he lived through them. His interviews of captured German staff is eye opening and gives a great insight into their political beliefs and loyalty to their leaders. The pictures of unusual WW II aircraft alone are worth the purchase of the book. It's a little pricey for a paperback but it's a book you'll likely want to keep for reference. I'm a former career pilot and picked up a lot of previously unknown, to me, aviation history. After reading the book I believe that Eric Brown is likely the most talented and luckiest pilot to ever live. And he lived at precisely the right time and place(s) to experience the age of aviation.

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