"Britain's Greatest Pilot"

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"Britain's Greatest Pilot"

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If anyone didn't catch "Britain's Greatest Pilot: The Extraordinary Story of Captain Eric 'Winkle' Brown" on Tuesday, it's on the iPlayer until 12 June.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... nkle-brown
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Thank you for the reminder!
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Some fascinating footage - I'm just watching film of Brown testing an Me262, which appears to be in taildragger format...
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Brown never tested the prototype 262 (which DID have a tailwheel). You were looking at "stock footage" of the 262 prototype which is always shown when documentaries mention the 262. It is only appropriate footage when they are talking about the early test flights.

There was lots of inappropriate bits of film shown in this documentary - such as when Brown was describing his head on attack technique against the Fw200 Condor they showed German gun camera footage of attacks on American B-24s.
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