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BEAVER, Paul. Winkle: The Extraordinary Life of Britain's Greatest Pilot. xxviii, 515p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Penguin, 2024. ISBN: 9781405930338,
The author was a long-standing friend of Eric “Winkle” Brown and has based this biography on Brown’s private papers as well as the public record. This full account of his life is a “warts and all” study with full coverage of his wartime service at sea and his career as a test pilot which saw him make more deck landings on carriers then anyone before or since as well as his difficult personality.
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