Captain Eric Melrose "Winkle" Brown Dies at 97

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    Who? Yeah that's fair enough. http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30039300

    Why should any of us perk up to this? Well other then a man who was fairly instrumental in modern aviation, and a veteran, he has a couple things I haven't seen before.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Brown_(pilot) (ok i have seen wiki pages)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_flown_by_Eric_"Winkle"_Brown
    Oh look, an ALPHABETIZED list of planes this man flew. That's right, he flew so many fucking planes they had to organize the list alphabetically. Oh he also pioneered carrier landings, having made a goddamned world record 2407. I guess it was the only way he could get his balls of steel onto the ship.
     
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