"I Flew Them All!". A Take On Aircraft, WW2 Events, And Key Protagonists. COMPLETE DOCUMENTARY
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- Eric Winkle Brown's take on famous aircraft and world events. Complete documentary series.
From pilot on a carrier to being sunk by a Nazi German submarine, to test pilot, and the first deck landing of a twin-engine aircraft in the world, a De Havilland Mosquito.
Eric Brown flew them all: Messerschmitt Me 262, Komet, FW 189 Own, F-104 Starfighter, and countless more.
He was probably the greatest test pilot that ever lived.
Captain Eric Melrose "Winkle" Brown, CBE, DSC, AFC, Hon FRAeS, RN (21 January 1919 - 21 February 2016) was a British Royal Navy officer and test pilot who flew 487 types of aircraft, more than anyone else in history.
Brown holds the world record for the most aircraft carrier deck take-offs and landings performed (2,407 and 2,271, respectively) and achieved several "firsts" in naval aviation, including the first landings on an aircraft carrier of a twin-engined aircraft, an aircraft with a tricycle undercarriage, a jet aircraft, and a rotary-wing aircraft.
He flew almost every category of Royal Navy and Royal Air Force aircraft: glider, fighter, bomber, airliner, amphibian, flying boat, and helicopter. During World War II, he flew many types of captured German, Italian, and Japanese aircraft, including new jet and rocket aircraft. He was a pioneer of jet technology in the postwar era.
Brown was born in Leith, near Edinburgh, in the United Kingdom. His father was a former balloon observer and pilot in the Royal Flying Corps (RFC). Brown first flew when he was eight or ten when he was taken up in a Gloster Gauntlet by his father, the younger Brown sitting on his father's knee.
In 1936, Brown's father took him to the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. Hermann Göring had recently announced the existence of the Luftwaffe, and Brown and his father met and were invited to join social gatherings by members of the newly disclosed organization. At one of these meetings, Ernst Udet, a former World War I fighter ace, was fascinated to make the acquaintance of Brown senior, a former RFC pilot, and offered to take his son Eric up flying with him. Eric eagerly accepted the German's offer, and after he arrived at the appointed airfield at Halle, he soon flew in a two-seat Bücker Jungmann. He recalled the incident nearly 80 years later on the BBC radio program Desert Island Discs.
You talk about aerobatics - we did every one I think and I was hanging on to my tummy. So, when we landed, he gave me the fright of my life because we approached upside-down. Then he rolled out just in time to land, he said to me as I got out of the cockpit, slapped me between the shoulder blades, and gave me the old WW1 fighter pilots' greeting, Hals- und Beinbruch, which means broken neck and broken legs, but that was their greeting. But he told me you'll make a fine fighter pilot - do me two favors: learn to speak German fluently and fly.
During the Olympic Games, Brown witnessed Hitler shaking hands with Jesse Owens.
In 1937, Brown left the Royal High School and entered the University of Edinburgh, studying modern languages with an emphasis on German. While there, he joined the university's air unit and received his first formal flight instructions. In February 1938, he returned to Germany under the sponsorship of the Foreign Office, having been invited to attend the 1938 Automobile Exhibition by Udet, who was then a Luftwaffe major general. He saw the demonstration of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61 helicopter flown by Hanna Reitsch before a small crowd inside the Deutschlandhalle. During this visit, he met and got to know Reitsch, whom he had also briefly met in 1936.
On returning to the United Kingdom then at war, he joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve before subsequently joining the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve as a Fleet Air Arm pilot, where he was posted to 802 Naval Air Squadron, initially serving on the first escort carrier, HMS Audacity, converted and thus named in July 1941. He flew one of the carrier's Grumman Martlets. During his service on board Audacity, he shot down two Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor maritime patrol aircraft, using head-on attacks to exploit the blind spot in their defensive armament.
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I remember meeting Eric in the officer's mess at RAF Turnhouse back when I was a boy. An absolute gentleman. Never forgotten him or hearing him talk. Such an incredibly nice human.
I could listen to him tell stories all day he’s got a unique voice
The list of people Captain Brown met during the course of his career was extraordinary. That alone would make him a hugely interesting man before we even get to his amazing feats as a pilot. Great video thank you.
An amazing interview, literally living history.
This was an extremely important piece that you have created.
Thank you.
Starts university at age 17 shows just how intelligent he really was. Add his family contacts and it’s little surprise he became a pilot.
Thank you very much for this, Dronescapes. By coincidence I just listened to the audiobook of "Wings on my Sleeve", his memoir summarizing much of what is covered in this excellent CZcams series of interviews. Its particular excellence was its analyses of most of the 450-odd different plane types he flew. Many of these are brief, only covering summaries of positives and deficiencies for unimportant or even useless warplanes, more capable of killing their pilots than the enemy, of which both Britain and Germany had their share (as did the USA, Italy, and France). But when he describes a plane that he liked he is almost poetic in his terms of admiration. It was clear that even when he turned 90 and had to give up flying, he felt like an addict detoxing from a euphoria-inducing drug. Still, his "addiction" led him through a wonderful and an admirable life, satisfying in a way that very few people achieve.
For more complete coverage of various types Brown flew look up his books 'Wings of the Luftwaffe', 'Wings of the weird and wonderful' and 'Wings of the Navy'
After reading all about this R.N. FAA test pilot's courage and skills, I have such awe and respect for this man!!!
My gosh what a life
Eric Brown will forever remain a legend in the hearts and minds of aviators everywhere. To think, he was abandoned by his parents as a child and was born in one of the poorest, working-class parts of London. Despite that, he went on to study at the University of Edinburgh, joined the air service, and eventually became a Commander of The British Empire for his services to the realm. Such bravery and excellence, despite the difficult odds stacked against him in his early life!
And a Captain in the RN
A giant of aviation, war hero and a genuinely decent human being. Cheers Winkle.
97 years old and still going strong. True hero. Love his accent.
Truly, a life well lived.
No he passed away
Check again buddy he died in 2016
Disrespectful to say he is alive
It's even in the description on the video...
SO important to get these guys experiences on film before there gone. good job!
This is one of the most important interviews in aviation history
Seeing how keen he is on piston aircraft performance I would like to hear what he has to say about the Douglas Skyraider. I always viewed that aircraft as the pinacle of piston performance for a one seater hotrod warbird. Only problem I can see with the Skyraider was they didnt make enough of them.
Such a Fantastic Man !
Simply a remarkable man.
Funny how flying is in DNA. I took up a brother and sister, both about 17. Father flew C130's as a job now.
The lad didn't seem interested, sort of bored, but the girl straight off i knew she was a natural.
thank you.....thanks to him as well. god bless
1:45:47 onwards (Germany & Germans) Oh my! Spot on! I am reminded of George Santayana's comment about ignoring lessons of history at your peril. 😢
Dronescapes does it again....first the hidden Whittle and now the greatest British airman. Suberb viewing.
Thanks! Did you watch the first episode of the "Hidden" Von Ohain?
czcams.com/video/Xfkaj9S29lA/video.html
He clearly states that initially, his only goal was to mitigate vibrations and sound. This is a stark difference from young Whittle, who, many years before Von Ohain, fully understood the critical benefits of a turbojet and even went as far as theorizing pressurization in his thesis. Had Von Ohain not been pampered and taken to the right people, such as Heinkel, who gave him everything he needed, and had Whittle been given only a fraction of what his German counterpart had at his disposal, Britain would have been ages ahead of Germany. Despite being ignored, ridiculed, ostracized, and virtually broke between presenting his project in 1929 and receiving a small sum of money thanks to a friend in mid-1935, he still managed to beat Von Ohain by months in building the first working turbojet.
The two were miles apart regarding strategic vision and ability to deploy their invention.
Let's not forget that Von Ohain also had access to Whittle's work when he started, and when Heinkel gave him an aircraft to test "his" engine, it was, in fact, mixed-powered, including Whittle's centrifugal solution.
I wonder what else we will uncover in the upcoming interviews.
Von Ohain's work and the history of the turbojet might need a severe re-assessment.
Some interesting revelations from the recent biography. Namely originally an orphan from london adopted by his Scottish parents. And also that his pilot was never a pilot in the RFC but ground crew
did he flew the mighty Scimitar ?
He indeed did . Why do you call it " the mighty " ? It was replaced by the Buccaneer. That was mighty .
@@user-qq2vq4fv8b as far as i have read and heard of, it was very powerful engine wise
The only other human that is even close to eric is maybe James H. Doolittle.
MAKE SURE that your mawl c1 isnt touching your flashlight it can cause your zero to be funky (unless youre not concerned about anything past 50 yds)