Wings on My Sleeve Wings on My Sleeve

Wings on My Sleeve

Captain Eric Brown
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Publisher Description

The autobiography of one of the greatest pilots in history.

In 1939 Eric Brown was on a University of Edinburgh exchange course in Germany, and the first he knew of the war was when the Gestapo came to arrest him. They released him, not realising 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.

During his lifetime he made a record-breaking 2,407 aircraft carrier landings and survived eleven plane crashes. One of Britain's few German-speaking airmen, 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. WINGS ON MY SLEEVE is 'Winkle' Brown's incredible story.

(p) 2016 Orion Publishing Group

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
NARRATOR
CS
Cameron Stewart
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
09:18
hr min
RELEASED
2016
June 23
PUBLISHER
Orion
SIZE
407.7
MB

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