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onlooker
01 Jun 14 22:06
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Britain's greatest ever Pilot -

Hour long documentary - just been on BBC2.

What a man - What a life -

- and still lucid, and going strong, at 95
Pause • Switch to Standard View Captain Eric 'Winkle' Brown
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Report The Leopard • June 1, 2014 10:14 PM BST
Watching it on delay......could be 75
Report factmachine • June 1, 2014 10:25 PM BST
FANTASTIC CHAP,THE AMAZING THING IS THAT HES STILL ALIVE,MADE U PROUD TO BE BRITISH!
Report onlooker • June 1, 2014 10:35 PM BST
Yes - 24 Seamen tied themselves together, floating in the Atlantic, in the dark and cold of night - after their Carrier was torpedoed and sunk.

22 fell asleep, mostly through fatigue, and drowned.

They had to keep cutting them free - to stop them dragging the others down with them.

Brown was one of only two who survived.

He also worked out that the only way to 'down' a particularly heavily, all-around, armed German aircraft was to fly 'head-on' at it - and 'take out' the cockpit - then pulling away at the last second, to avoid crashing directly into the enemy plane that he had just hit.
Report a bitofinterest • June 1, 2014 10:37 PM BST
kenny manns grandson Cool
Report akabula • June 1, 2014 10:52 PM BST
Laugh
Report Do wah Diddy • June 2, 2014 12:52 AM BST
HES DONE IT ALL .HE DEFINATLY HAS GOT THE TEE SHIRT .HES GOT PROPER STORIES TO TELL WHAT A LIFE
Report The Leopard • June 2, 2014 9:36 AM BST
Full stop, *Space*, Start new sentence......purleeeeeeeease ! Morning Do Wah ! Wink
Report Do wah Diddy • June 2, 2014 10:41 PM BST
IF YOU HAVE GOT CATCH UP T V .OR THIS OCUMENTRY COMES ON AGAIN.IT IS A MUST WATCH .I THINK ITS ONE OF THE BEST DOCUMENTRIES EVER MADE .THIS MAN IS UNBELIEVABLE ON WHO HES,MET .WHERE HES BEEN AND WHAT HES DONE .IF I COULD TALK TO ANYONE I WOULD LOVE TO TALK TO HIM .WHAT A LIFE HES LED .
Report kenny mann • June 3, 2014 11:26 PM BST
On BBC2 again

NOW
Report guinness2dear • June 4, 2014 10:31 AM BST
Certainly led an exceptional life.

Boys own stuff.
Report bigmo • June 4, 2014 3:54 PM BST
Very enjoyable.Good shout onlooker.
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