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The former test pilot Eric 'Winkle' Brown is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as having flown more types of aircraft than any other pilot in the world. Ever. This achievement is all the more remarkable given that only pilot-in-command flights count and that marks or variants of a basic type of aircraft are not included - so the 14 marks of Spitfire that he has flown, for example, count as just one of the 490 aircraft types in his Log Books. This extraordinary record is reflected in the fact that Captain Brown is also the most decorated Fleet Air Arm and British test pilot and has a string of other records to his name, including the world's first landing of a jet aircraft on an aircraft carrier. He was lucky enough to be a test pilot through the most extraordinary period in aviation history and now has opened up the pages of his Flying Log Books to reveal his experience of some of the most famous, rare, exotic and unusual aircraft ever built. From the infamous Mitsubishi Zero-Sen, to the US Navy's piston-engine Grumman F8F- 2 Bearcat; from the supersonic research de Havilland Swallow to dangerous experimental types such as the General Aircraft GAL/56, Eric 'Winkle' Brown knows their virtues and vices first hand. From rarities such as the North American Savage, designed to take-off from an aircraft carrier with a nuclear bomb, to icons such as the Lancaster, Flying Fortress, Mustang and Seafire, Eric 'Winkle' Brown has tested their qualities and takes the reader into the cockpits of these exciting aircraft, sharing the joys and hazards of flying 53 of the most weird and wonderful aircraft to ever fly.

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Completely updated with additional information from the original, this one is a keeper and a book that I am positive you will very much enjoy. Highly recommended for all aviation enthusiasts. -- (01/01/2011) All in all, this is a terrific book, one that sheds a new light on many of the types featured and one that I can recommend in the highest terms possible. --Paul Bradley IPMS (02/01/2011)

Completely updated with additional information from the original, this one is a keeper and a book that I am positive you will very much enjoy. Highly recommended for all aviation enthusiasts. -Modeling Madness, reviewed by Scott Van Aken, January 2011-- (01/01/2011) Book mention.--Internet Modeler (02/01/2011) All in all, this is a terrific book, one that sheds a new light on many of the types featured and one that I can recommend in the highest terms possible. -IPMS, reviewed by Paul Bradley, February 2011--IPMS (02/01/2011)

Book mention.--Internet Modeler (02/01/2011) Completely updated with additional information from the original, this one is a keeper and a book that I am positive you will very much enjoy. Highly recommended for all aviation enthusiasts. -Modeling Madness, reviewed by Scott Van Aken, January 2011-- (01/01/2011) All in all, this is a terrific book, one that sheds a new light on many of the types featured and one that I can recommend in the highest terms possible. -IPMS, reviewed by Paul Bradley, February 2011--IPMS (02/01/2011)

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Captain Eric Brown had a 31 year career in the Royal Navy, and is the Fleet Air Arm's most decorated pilot. After a distinguished operational tour flying from Britain's first escort carrier, he was selected as a test pilot in 1942 and then served at A&AEE Boscombe Down before being appointed Chief Naval Test Pilot at the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough, where he remained for six years. During that time he commanded the Enemy Aircraft Flight, the High Speed Flight and finally the prestigious Aerodynamics Flight. In his test flying career he flew a world record 490 basic types of aircraft, and made a world record 2,407 aircraft carrier landings in fixed-wing aircraft. He is a past President of the Royal Aeronautical Society, and Honorary Fellow of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots and a Master Pilot of Russia. In 1995 he was inducted into the US Navy's Carrier Aviation Test Pilot Hall of Honor, the only non-American to have received this accolade.

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