Winkle, a man with a winkie bigger than any Winkle's winkie that had ever come before.
@thejedsterYT
5 жыл бұрын
Britisher's Good Eggs
@MrPunkFox
5 жыл бұрын
Dankula: I have an episode of mad lads Britisher: Hold my gin
@mrglibb
5 жыл бұрын
Anyone who says Britain has no history or culture to be proud of is at best misinformed, this man is a true example of our heritage.
@davidgifford8112
5 жыл бұрын
Had dinner with Eric Brown once at RAF Cosford. A fascinating guy and a real gentleman. I had his full attention for a few hours (I had made an observation about the Miles 51 and he wanted to give me his insights). Talking rocket planes with a man that had interviewed Herman Goring was quite an honour. RIP.
@prospero0586
5 жыл бұрын
Absolutely spectacular presentation as befits a spectacular man such as Brown.
@rabmcdonald2735
5 жыл бұрын
I have met him in Edinburgh. he was talking about his life and work in Edinburgh University. what a hero... what a honor to shake his hand...
@royalirish4208
5 жыл бұрын
One of if not the best and most interesting videos I have ever watched on KZitem, what a truly amazing man he was if only men like this were around today the entire world would see just what mankind can be if only we put our minds to it.
@kesfitzgerald1084
5 жыл бұрын
I agree with your sentiments about the video and Winkle Brown, except I would contradict you on one matter, the world still produces people like Winkle Brown. Commeth the hour, commeth the man.
@franl155
3 жыл бұрын
There probably are people who have the potential to be as great, but don't get the chane to show it.
@davidbarlow431
5 жыл бұрын
Old Winkle Brown is one of my personal hero's. Thank you for this very fitting tribute to the great man.
@davejob630
5 жыл бұрын
A man cast in the very finest of British moulds. One hopes that mould is never broken.
@wulfherecyning1282
5 жыл бұрын
Crazy bastard. I especially love the story about his singlehandedly accepting the surrender of the airbase.
@chlalew
5 жыл бұрын
Brilliant. I loved watching the documentaries that he was in and can hear his voice as I write this. An inspiration and hero indeed. RIP Eric
@kevindean9503
5 жыл бұрын
Do please make more in this series. In this age of the tearing down of old heroes, traditions, culture, values, and social norms I am glad to see someone still celebrating them; or in that old British, understated way- quietly admiring them.
@ireway1988
5 жыл бұрын
I raise my glass skyward to a true British hero. May his memory never fade, may his accomplishments serve as a beacon to what he did.
@JammyGuns
5 жыл бұрын
A superb and fitting presentation to his memory Britisher. The guy is a true hero.
@markdoppelganger7810
5 жыл бұрын
A worthy hero and a worthy telling. Highest respect, hats - off.
@RiflemanMoore
5 жыл бұрын
Captain Brown, something of a personal hero. His recollections on flying experimental German aircraft immediately after the Second World War are absolutely fascinating.
@reaverman
5 жыл бұрын
What an absolute legend, and a man who lived more that one lifetime and could tell you all those stories. Sad he is no longer with us :#(
@Saint_nobody
5 жыл бұрын
Tip of the hat to the brave gentleman. Well done old boy, you've more than earned your (angelic) wings.
@carpediem3391
5 жыл бұрын
A Britisher through and through, we shall never see his like again. How a mighty nation has fallen and a great people have been brought low.
@harrymonk983
5 жыл бұрын
These days they give knighthoods to pop stars and sportsmen. Sadly the true heros get overlooked. He was indeed a true hero. Thank you for sharing
@bellowsmain6762
5 жыл бұрын
Wonderful. You see, it alright to be British and not be ashamed.
@FedralBI
5 жыл бұрын
I was shocked that he survived when I saw that he had flown the F-104, that thing killed so many pilots it was criminal. Thank you for putting this together.
@Rory_Herbert
5 жыл бұрын
What an amazing story. And one of the best videos I have seen on KZitem. Bravo, Britisher.
@robinbeckford314
5 жыл бұрын
A man of great skill at exactly the right time to use it to its fullest. There's a good documentary about him here on youtube. What impressed me most was his modesty. Hero indeed. Thank you, Britisher.
@bad-girlbex3791
5 жыл бұрын
Mr Britisher, you have outdone yourself! This was a beautiful piece and I was teary eyed by the end of it. The way you played it out with a list of all the planes Brown had flown throughout his life, against that soft piano was gorgeous and really hit the right note. When you mentioned who you were doing this video about the other day after the stream, I told Doug who it was about and he (being a massive military history buff) HAD heard about it, but I had not. We both thoroughly enjoyed this video and appreciate the amount of time and effort you put into making it. The man was an absolute legend and your video the most fitting of tributes. Someone has already commented that this is a 'Madlads British Edition' and I think that it works as a perfect compliment to Dankula's Madlads series. Your content dovetails beautifully into his and I really hope that you continue with this series, because all the efforts you put into it are more than worth it. Thank you for teaching me about someone we all should know about and remember. x
@TheHarryChanne1
5 жыл бұрын
Please do checkout his video on the battle of Britain, which I still hold to be the finest video made by an individual on KZitem in the last few years. What Britisher lacks in quantity he more than makes up for in quality.
@franl155
3 жыл бұрын
That list at the end was absolutely staggering. We hear numbers - 300, 400 - and they kind of skim the surface and bounce off. That list really brings it home. An unsung hero who really deserves to be better known.
@fatbass22
2 жыл бұрын
This man was incredibly brave and had an almost supernatural control over any airplane he flew. I wish I'd had the privilege of talking to him.wow
@G0ingN0va
5 жыл бұрын
I love all your videos but, I love it when you do videos like this. Superb! More please!
@housegoth
5 жыл бұрын
A tribute to an extraordinary man. Thank you for sharing this with us all.
@aridas4798
5 жыл бұрын
That was beautiful, as an amateur pilot I know how much one can love flying. It's a unique breed who can't stand to be on the ground when there is a plane ready to go on the apron. Men like Mr. Brown were pioneers with a passion for the sky. Thank you for your work on this Britisher.
@Womberto
5 жыл бұрын
Beautiful tribute old chap.
@richardthomas6890
5 жыл бұрын
Never ceases to amaze me, when a Britain is highlighted in such terms Thanks for the vid on a remarkable and brave man
@FrostByteAirsoft
5 жыл бұрын
I hope this becomes a series
@ChristopherNFP
5 жыл бұрын
Spitfire, catalina, halifax, hercules and sabre? Those 5 alone make him a legend. Thank you for the informative and entertaining work.
@celticfury7328
5 жыл бұрын
A beautifully fitting tribute to a once in a millennium hero...well done as per usual, good sir!
@larrygoerke9081
5 жыл бұрын
Excellent presentation. Loved it. Salutes Eric, hoists my glass to his honor & memory, and to you Sir, ... CHEERS
@MrGrumblier
5 жыл бұрын
"Fly the plane until something breaks then report back". I lost it at this point. Gotta love the Brits.
@longyx321
5 жыл бұрын
Britain's finest hour...... amazing what that generation went through and achieved......my Dad was RAF technician.
@cargumdeu
5 жыл бұрын
Well done Britisher, the story of a great man, lovingly told. This kind of thing is your forte.
@pads-zr9ln
5 жыл бұрын
stunning tribute to a truly brave man
@djwoody1649
5 жыл бұрын
This bloke had an amazing life, I always love hearing his story.
@streetboardtorbay
5 жыл бұрын
Being British Rules! These great men are our history. Let us not forget! Great vid!
@georginadove2775
5 жыл бұрын
What a man.
@stumccabe
5 жыл бұрын
Mr Britisher, your narration and writing were masterful. Bravo! Thanks for telling us about the little man who made ordinary men feel small.
@kyleglenn2434
5 жыл бұрын
A list of the planes he didn't fly would be shorter.
@lindasteel4502
5 жыл бұрын
You've made me wonder whether my dad ever met this chap. He joined the army during the war but spent practically all of it at sea as an anti aircraft gunner on an escort ship going all over The World picking up supplies and bringing them back to Britain. A very interesting video. Thank you.
@poppedweasel
5 жыл бұрын
This is a great memorial, Britisher. As others have already asked, please make this into a series. The music you chose was inspirational.
@1Loftwing1
5 жыл бұрын
I swear your profile picture is from an Argentinian propaganda video
@poppedweasel
5 жыл бұрын
@@1Loftwing1 Well spotted mate. ;)
@wulfherecyning1282
5 жыл бұрын
Bi-plane to supersonic jet. If he had been American, there would have been a good chance of him getting to space.
@markdoppelganger7810
5 жыл бұрын
Ah but we can only dream, and perhaps page through "The Ministry of Space" one more time.
@joe090309
5 жыл бұрын
As someone who has had an interest in aircraft from pretty much the same age as Cmdr Brown I loved this video. To learn of the man that did so much and was in a position I very much desire to have been in it is always wonderful to hear about.
@wbcfns
5 жыл бұрын
Great tribute to a great man.
@ededdi
5 жыл бұрын
This needs to be a series.
@timestealer9152
5 жыл бұрын
The footage of Brown in the De Haviland Sea Vampire making the first jet landing on a carrier is always worth a watch. Supposedly the Royal Navy were so desperate to beat the USN to the record that they couldn't wait for a calm day... As such, you can see the flight deck rolling up and down quite heavily as the Vampire comes in to land. The Absolute Madlads.
@russellcampbell9641
5 жыл бұрын
Just one word: WOW!!!
@MajWMartin
5 жыл бұрын
Well done Sir, well done. One of your best.
@MilesUmbrae
5 жыл бұрын
To someone like Erik Winkle "Impossible" is just another level of "Difficult"...
@Dazed2006
5 жыл бұрын
A personal hero of mine, I learnt about him from playing flight sims and getting into aviation history. He had an amazing life and career.
@scwarzewaffe85
5 жыл бұрын
Ah .. I really enjoyed this , Ive worked airside at Edinburgh airport for a few years on & off. It’s great to see they have erected a small & inspiring memorial to mr brown just outside of the main terminal. Personally I think that Hero’s of aviation should be celebrated publicly.. when I arrived in David Ben gurion airport a few years back. I was delighted to see a plaque bearing Ilan Ramon (a celebrated Israeli airman) whom flew on an ill fated space shuttle mission in 2003. These guys deserve public respect and admiration than any overpaid footballer.. Great work britisher - as always!
@IRMentat
5 жыл бұрын
Hell of a list of acchievements he has there.
@jamiedalton2623
5 жыл бұрын
He very much was, and I very much appreciate the salute Britisher. Well done.
@LawrenceTimme
5 жыл бұрын
What a legend
@Eyeballkidd
5 жыл бұрын
A most enjoyable edition of The Cyber pass.
@oscarwilde-fan880
5 жыл бұрын
Ernst Udet flew with him when he was a boy, he attended the famous progressive education boarding school 'Schule Schloss Salem' and he interviewed Hermann Göring after the defeat of Nazi Germany. I wish I could have talked to him. That interview would of itself have filled a book. May he rest in peace.
@McPhearsom
5 жыл бұрын
Legend
@Lincoln-vj2li
5 жыл бұрын
That man had True Grit. Balls made out of titanium.
@zoopdterdoobdter5743
5 жыл бұрын
It's stories such as these that inspire us to do great things on behalf of, not only ourselves, but those things greater than ourselves. And, you Brits have much to be proud of. Here's to hoping your countrymen will turn a deaf ear to those who would have you naval gaze yourselves into irrelevance by remembering what you do, sir. I look forward to more such stories. ... ...... *BOOSH!!!* _USAF X-1 sound-barrier dunks on the UK!_ 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 🎆🎆🎆🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 Apologies. I suffer from a Tourettes-like condition common to Texas.
@ChadThundersneed
5 жыл бұрын
WE NEED MORE HISTORY! Teach us what it means to be British!
@geneplummer6645
5 жыл бұрын
exceptional
@alphalobster8021
5 жыл бұрын
A wonderful video biography of an incredible individual. Really, very well done Sir. My brush with a test pilot was one of my flying instructors, David Scouller, an ex-instructor at the Empire Test Pilot School. Walk into his office, there he is beside a Spitfire, there next to a Lightning, Standing next to a Tocano, and there a Tornado. What's that? A Grippen, and so on and so on. A few hours flying with this chap and you don't need instruments to fly on speed, on altitude. Those test pilots have an understanding of risk, a way of extracting information from the most subtle of sources, a confidence in themselves and the kind of humility that normal folk could not even imagine.
@mooskkosvlok
5 жыл бұрын
thank you for the history lesson
@j.cheeverloophole9029
5 жыл бұрын
"Winkle's" autobiography is a superb book... "Wings on my Sleeve", incredible man, nerves of carbon steel. The US hated him having the record for the most carrier landings, and pushed their top pilots to try & break his record....none managed it & two had nervous breakdowns before they got even halfway there. Also, i saw a clip of him being interviewed where he said how he once did 3 barrel rolls around each span of the Forth Rail Bridge in a Spitfire, he got reported by a member of the public, but they assumed it must've been an RAF pilot as no one knew the Fleet Air Arm had Spitfires at the time (Seafire) so the powers that be searched & never found him....thankfully...as he said if they'd caught him he'd have been cashiered and his career would've been very different. He mentions in his book, debriefing Herman Goering, initially he wasn't impressed, he was a Morphine addict, but after a few weeks for it to get out of his system, his senses returned and he was "a formidable intellect"....
@slugwrench
5 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your time and for sharing your insight on this wonderful Hero .
@darrenoetinger7876
5 жыл бұрын
Quite possibly your best video to date
@fraukatze3856
5 жыл бұрын
Very interesting. A demonstration of “nerves of steel.”
@Velton2014
5 жыл бұрын
Just excellent, thank you.
@wtfamiactuallyright1823
5 жыл бұрын
Incredible. 😀
@rickywinter450
5 жыл бұрын
Fantastic narration for a fantastic man.
@mike-mw8gc
5 жыл бұрын
Excellent!
@greaser1945
5 жыл бұрын
A fascinating story and well told at that. Thank you for putting this together!
@arqjrp
5 жыл бұрын
A love letter to a fellow countryman, great video my friend.
@tiredman4540
5 жыл бұрын
Wonderful story, like a nice liqueur, a salve to all the rubbish going on. Looking forward to more...
@valaudae1809
5 жыл бұрын
Captain Brown was stationed for a time at RNAS Crail in WW2. There he flew everything that came his way; from Wildcats to Barracudas and Spitfires to Swordfish. Being the sort of person he was, he made it a point of honour to fly every type of single engined aircraft under the short spans on the Dundee side of theTay Rail Bridge. Risky and totally illegal, of course, but he had praise for the good people of Dundee who, he said, witnessed but never reported his transgressions.
@flippinchoons
5 жыл бұрын
441 thumbs up 0 down...with 2557 views at my time of watching. PLease Sir!, can we have some more!
@scottw2317
5 жыл бұрын
Love this presentation. Brought to mind another famous pilot, a one Douglas Bader no less, who despite have both legs amputated flew against the germans many times, was captured and escaped multiple times. For the story of his war expience the movie and book 'Reach for the Sky' is about this man's effort.
@HFamilyDad
5 жыл бұрын
Love Winkle, great vid, thanks
@774Rob
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks Britisher. I really enjoyed this.
@Mr_Gently_Benevolent
5 жыл бұрын
Great video Britisher, if you make more like this I'd certainly watch them. What a great man.
@LiamE69
5 жыл бұрын
Bear in mind when they say he flew 400 odd different types of plane, they really mean different types. For instance he flew something like 20 different version of the Spitfire, but they are all considered as one.
@wildsurj
5 жыл бұрын
I believe now that if KZitem were dismantled tomorrow, I would not grieve, for I've already seen the best it has to offer. Thank you. Will someone please get this man a knighthood!?!
@Ansem1313
5 жыл бұрын
This could be a series
@seanhall
5 жыл бұрын
A great video, thanks for putting the time in. Stuff you never knew at school.
@kenlee5509
5 жыл бұрын
As a child pilot myself, Winkle is my brother. This was glorious, thank you so much!
@TheFamousECCLES65
5 жыл бұрын
Thank you.
@minorityblogger
5 жыл бұрын
OUTSTANDING!
@bobz1736
5 жыл бұрын
Simply amazing - well told sir 😎
@summerfieldmartin912
5 жыл бұрын
Wow. Just wow.
@gregculverwell
5 жыл бұрын
For anyone wanting to learn more, read his book:- 'Wings on my sleeve'. All the material here comes from it. It's a great read. I can't think of anyone I admire more. Thanks for the great video as always.
@TINCANsquid
5 жыл бұрын
outstanding BZ sir. I'm familiar w/ Brown's storied career. My childhood heroes were mostly aviators.
@comkaosstime
5 жыл бұрын
Incredible thanks for the video
@adrianwalters2793
5 жыл бұрын
Great subject, well presented
@ajsconk1
5 жыл бұрын
That’s bad ass!!!! Thanks for putting that together. 😊
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