Author: Brown, Captain Eric,
Title: WINGS ON MY SLEEVE.
Description: Phoenix, London, ND (circa 2008), 4th printing, trade paperback, half tone photo frontis, 296pp, numerous half tone photo ills. in text, coloured upper wrapperr, the memoirs of a WW2 Royal Navy pilot who became a test pilot for the Royal Navy and the Royal Aircraft Establishment, he was a fluent German speak and graduate of Edinburgh, he returned from an exchange teaching post in Germany in 1939 to find that although a trained pilot the RAF did not want him, he joined the Fleet Air Arm and after a period of operational flying with 802 squadron in HMS Audacity he became a test pilot for the Royal Navy, assessing the deck landing capabilities of aircraft at RAE Farborough, at the end of WW2 commanding the Enemy Aircraft Flight testing captured German aircraft the author continued in Naval service in both experimental flying and administrative roles until he retired in 1970.faintly tanned at edges, near fine,

Keywords: autobiography war ww2 fleet air arm test pilot


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