Britains Greatest pilot !!!!!
04 June 2014, 02:55 PM
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Britains Greatest pilot !!!!!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...n-winkle-brown
A truly staggering story the man appears to have lived enough for several life times the highlights are :-
Rode the wall of death as a teenager
Went to the berlin Olympics in 1936 as a teenager and watched Hitler shake hands with Jesse Owens
Was flown by the second best German air ace of WW1 Ernst Udet who told him to learn German and learn how to fly
Attend a Nuremberg Rally
Revisited Germany after university as part of diplomatic core in 1939 arrested by the SS and thrown out when war started.
Joined the fleet air arm and got torpedoed and was one of the only two survivors.
First pilot ever to land mosquito on an aircraft carrier (twice the weight of anything else ever attempted).
First pilot Ever to land a jet on an aircraft carrier (Vampire).
Got bombed by a V1 and aided in the attempts to bring them down
One of the first service men to enter Belsen and interrogated the infamous female guard Irma Grese
Interrogated Herman Goering.
Flew several German experimental war time jets including Meschersmitt me262 and me163.
As a test pilot he flew 487 separate aircraft types during his career a world record that will Never be bettered.
Started his career flying in the bi plane Gladiator and finished in the Buccaner jet.
Survived all this and is still around at the age of 95
A truly staggering story the man appears to have lived enough for several life times the highlights are :-
Rode the wall of death as a teenager
Went to the berlin Olympics in 1936 as a teenager and watched Hitler shake hands with Jesse Owens
Was flown by the second best German air ace of WW1 Ernst Udet who told him to learn German and learn how to fly
Attend a Nuremberg Rally
Revisited Germany after university as part of diplomatic core in 1939 arrested by the SS and thrown out when war started.
Joined the fleet air arm and got torpedoed and was one of the only two survivors.
First pilot ever to land mosquito on an aircraft carrier (twice the weight of anything else ever attempted).
First pilot Ever to land a jet on an aircraft carrier (Vampire).
Got bombed by a V1 and aided in the attempts to bring them down
One of the first service men to enter Belsen and interrogated the infamous female guard Irma Grese
Interrogated Herman Goering.
Flew several German experimental war time jets including Meschersmitt me262 and me163.
As a test pilot he flew 487 separate aircraft types during his career a world record that will Never be bettered.
Started his career flying in the bi plane Gladiator and finished in the Buccaner jet.
Survived all this and is still around at the age of 95
04 June 2014, 08:23 PM
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Respect.
I hope he makes an update of his life with some more tales that he didnt reveal in another five years.
All the best mate, thanks from worcestershire.
I hope he makes an update of his life with some more tales that he didnt reveal in another five years.
All the best mate, thanks from worcestershire.
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I'm not the biggest fan of war related documentaries, but sat watching that programme utterly gobsmacked.
I remember in one of the adverts flicking though the channels and seeing an advert for TOWIE type nonsense and thinking that the contrast between these two programmes was as good a summary of "where we've come from" to "where we've arrived at" in terms of what is lauded in society as you're likely to find.
That thought made me a bit queasy!!
I remember in one of the adverts flicking though the channels and seeing an advert for TOWIE type nonsense and thinking that the contrast between these two programmes was as good a summary of "where we've come from" to "where we've arrived at" in terms of what is lauded in society as you're likely to find.
That thought made me a bit queasy!!
05 June 2014, 03:12 PM
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If we wait 5 years he'll have scaled Everest, beaten kim yong un and Bashar al assad to a bloody pulp, made Putin withdraw from the Ukraine and made chuck Norris his permanent bitch !!!
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05 June 2014, 04:36 PM
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I'm not the biggest fan of war related documentaries, but sat watching that programme utterly gobsmacked.
I remember in one of the adverts flicking though the channels and seeing an advert for TOWIE type nonsense and thinking that the contrast between these two programmes was as good a summary of "where we've come from" to "where we've arrived at" in terms of what is lauded in society as you're likely to find.
That thought made me a bit queasy!!
I remember in one of the adverts flicking though the channels and seeing an advert for TOWIE type nonsense and thinking that the contrast between these two programmes was as good a summary of "where we've come from" to "where we've arrived at" in terms of what is lauded in society as you're likely to find.
That thought made me a bit queasy!!
05 June 2014, 06:07 PM
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Wiki lists them all: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_active_United_Kingdom_military_aircraft
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