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    CHAMPION TAILHOOKER

    Mar 03, 2020 4 minutes
    BY BARRETT TILLMAN

    World champion carrier aviator Captain Eric “Winkle” Brown logged an incredible 2,407 shipboard landings with the Royal Navy. He also flew a record 487 aircraft types (excluding subvariants). But those numbers are merely the framework for a unique flying career.

    Born in Scotland in 1919, Eric Melrose Brown was inspired by his father, a World War I airman. Among Brown’s early influences was German General Ernst Udet, whom he met in Berlin in 1936. The Kaiser’s second-ranking ace insisted, “You must become a pilot!” Udet could scarcely have suspected how successful a pilot the young

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