Eric "Winkle" Brown was a celebrated Royal Navy pilot, holding world records for flying 487 different aircraft types and making 2,407 carrier landings. He was a critical test pilot during WWII, the ...
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The WW2 airplane with only one weakness

In 1941, Royal Navy pilot Eric “Winkle” Brown barely survived when a shell smashed through his windshield, driving glass into ...
The race to break the sound barrier pushed aircraft, engineers and test pilots into territory where planes could shake violently or even disintegrate. Britain spent years developing the Miles M.52 and ...