{"id":1833,"date":"2018-11-05T15:17:08","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T22:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/?p=1833"},"modified":"2018-11-05T16:53:34","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T23:53:34","slug":"eric-winkle-brown-talks-flying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/05\/eric-winkle-brown-talks-flying\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown talks flying"},"content":{"rendered":"

Legendary Captain Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown was a British Royal Navy test pilot who flew 487 types of aircraft, more than anyone else in history. He was the most-decorated pilot in the history of the Royal Navy. Some of his ‘firsts’ include first to land a jet on an aircraft carrier and first to land a twin-engine aircraft on an aircraft carrier. He logged over 2,200 aircraft carrier landings. Fought in combat, commanded air bases. Absolutely bloody amazing.<\/p>\n

Amazon Prime Video has a great little documentary<\/a> that is almost all him sitting on his couch talking, with some old test footage. On general airmanship and survivability, he says this:<\/p>\n

\u201cPreparation is vital. That requires time. And a lot of pilots prefer to use their time drinking at the bar.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were familiar with the aircraft when everything was normal. But when an emergency occurred they hadn\u2019t boned up on what to do in these emergencies.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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And a few minutes later, talking about how well the F-86 Sabre flew:<\/p>\n

\u201cHarmony of control is what binds a pilot with his aircraft. You feel, you and the airplane are one, you are part of it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I will never fly a captured German rocket-powered ME163 Komet, or land a new plane onto a pitching aircraft carrier, but I can prepare. I can bone up. And maybe I will feel one with the airplane. Just like Winkle Brown . .\u00a0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Legendary Captain Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown was a British Royal Navy test pilot who flew 487 types of aircraft, more than anyone else in history. He was the most-decorated pilot in the history of the Royal Navy. Some of his ‘firsts’ include first to land a jet on an aircraft carrier and first to land a twin-engine aircraft on an aircraft carrier. He logged over 2,200 aircraft carrier landings. Fought in combat, commanded air bases. Absolutely bloody amazing. Amazon Prime Video has a great little documentary that is almost all him sitting on his couch talking, with some old test footage. … Continue reading Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown talks flying<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,113],"tags":[39,67,58,42],"class_list":["post-1833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","category-link-to-videos","tag-emergency","tag-military-ops","tag-mindset","tag-one-with"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1833"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1838,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833\/revisions\/1838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}