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Wings on My Sleeve

By: Eric 'Winkle' Brown
Narrated by: Cameron Stewart
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 THE WORLD'S GREATEST TEST PILOT TELLS HIS STORY
'When you read through his life story, it makes James Bond seem like a bit of a slacker'
Kirsty Young, Desert Island Discs

'The greatest test pilot who ever lived. A true inspiration'
Tim Peake, astronaut and former regular British Army Air Corps officer

'The stories beggar belief'
Guardian

'Fascinating reading . . . His amazing life story is quite literally "stranger than fiction"'
Today's Pilot

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.©2006 Eric Brown (P)2016 Orion Publishing Group Air Forces Armed Forces Engineering Military Military & War Aviation War US Air Force Thought-Provoking Submarine
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Absolutely fantastic story, I couldnt stop listening to this. Anybody who has an interest in aviation will be bowled over at the shear experience 'Winkle' accrued, the types from all countries and the 'firsts' that he completed is mind boggling. An awesome life lived by an outstanding character.

Brilliant!

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I just loved everything about this book! If your interested in flight then this is a must read! Can’t believe one man did all of this!?!

Outstanding and astonishing life!

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A must for anyone with an interest in aviation. What an incredible flyer. Pilot biographies don't get any better than this.

brilliant book

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I had already read the book, and seen Eric Brown on many documentary programmes where he related his extraordinary life from a young boy meeting and flying with Ernst Udet in Germany in 1936 to his career as a Navy flyer and test pilot to his last rank as rear admiral.
An absorbing must read for anyone interested in military aviation.

A classic autobiography

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Very interesting book and a good read for anyone with the slightest interest in aviation history. Well-paced with just the right amount of detail. I particularly enjoyed the author's recollection of test flights in captured German aircraft and the logistical arrangements around them.

Very interesting and well-paced book.

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