Eric Brown was a famous pilot over in Britain. He passed away yesterday. This is someone who i'm sure would have some stories to tell over a few pints in the pub:
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160222-eric-winkle-brown-britains-most-incredible-test-pilot
He was truly amazing, I watched a documentary about him not too long ago:
My gosh, what a helluva life must have he lived!! Watched the entire documentary, a must see. He's the kinda guy that would never blink an eye, just do it, true inspiration. Thanks for posting that.
That guy test flew the Me 163 Komet!
That is a tiny (and VERY dangerous) plane, I am curious how they got his giant balls in there!
Stefan (Not Bruce) wrote: He was truly amazing, I watched a documentary about him not too long ago: awesomeness
That documentary was great! Thanks for linking. I would never have guessed that as a strategy for dealing with robot bombs!
Wow...a life well lived to say the least! 
I'd ask him the same I've asked of every famous pilot I've met: What is your favorite aircraft you've flown?
Very good documentary, thanks for posting it. He lived quite a life.
487 different aircraft types, 17,000 flight hours, 2407 carrier landings, 2721 catapult launches, several air-to-air kills before being assigned to test flying. There will never again be pilots like him or General Yeager.
I watched that last year. Amazing guy.
Holy E36 M3. That was amazing. I even got the spousal unit to watch the documentary last year. What an amazing man. A true hero.
ME163 is one of my favorites, well any flying wing is. But man, getting into that thing with it's reputation for killing more pilots than it shot down and also the de Havilland DH 108 after the first one broke up and killed Geoffrey de Havilland, Jr. and they didn't know why. The dude had depleted uranium nads.
He mentions in the documentary above how hard it was on his family, but there's nothing on Wikipedia that I saw about his wife other than her injury from the V1. Must have been extraordinarily hard for her.
You'll need to log in to post.
