RIP Eric "Winkle" Brown

[Vista]

The name probably doesn't mean much to many young people today but he was a true hero, a word that is used too lightly these days (IMHO). The stats in this article alone are incredible, the risks he and his generation took so that that we might live free..........a moment's quiet thought.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-35626854

[accord83]

An awesome man, what a career, another of the Old Guard gone.

[theloudboy]

Top man he will be missed

[Vista]

Documentary on about him tonight. He held three absolute Guinness World Records, including for the number of aircraft carrier deck landings and types of aeroplane flown."

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b045pbq2