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Default Captain Eric 'Winkle' Brown RIP



My Hero.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-35626854


Flew most German rocket/jet aircraft.
Flew 487 different types of aircraft, a world record that is unlikely ever
to be matched.
Piloted 2,407 aircraft carrier landings
Appointed MBE, OBE and CBE
Survived 11 plane crashes and the sinking of HMS Audacity in 1941
Was at the liberation of Bergen Belsen.
Interrogated some of the leading Nazis after the war, including Heinrich
Himmler, Hermann Goering and Belsen's chief guards Josef Kramer and Irma
Grese
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