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[Netko]

I'm sure it will be obvious when someone tells me but I can't for the life of
me identify this aircraft being landed by Eric Brown on a Royal Navy carrier.
Will someone please put me out of my misery?

The photograph is a grab from a forthcoming TV programme about Brown (BBC2
this Sunday if you're in the UK). Details of the programme (complete with
some film clips) are at:

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

The great man seems on fine form but I'm tempted to strangle whoever is
responsible for that background music.

[Syke[_2_]]

On 30/05/2014 20:18, Netko wrote:
> I'm sure it will be obvious when someone tells me but I can't for the life of
> me identify this aircraft being landed by Eric Brown on a Royal Navy carrier.
> Will someone please put me out of my misery?
>
> The photograph is a grab from a forthcoming TV programme about Brown (BBC2
> this Sunday if you're in the UK). Details of the programme (complete with
> some film clips) are at:
>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b045pbq2
>
> The great man seems on fine form but I'm tempted to strangle whoever is
> responsible for that background music.
>

P-39 Airacobra.

Regards

Syke

[Netko]

On Fri, 30 May 2014 20:24:41 +0100, Syke wrote
(in article >):

> P-39 Airacobra.

Thanks. I was put off the scent becasue I've never heard of the RN ever
showing interest in the P-39, far less trying it out on a carrier.

Then again, it's Eric Brown we're talking about and he seems to have tried
out just about everything on a carrier.

[John Szalay[_2_]]

Netko > wrote in
:

> On Fri, 30 May 2014 20:24:41 +0100, Syke wrote
> (in article >):
>
>> P-39 Airacobra.
>
> Thanks. I was put off the scent becasue I've never heard of the RN
> ever showing interest in the P-39, far less trying it out on a
> carrier.
>
> Then again, it's Eric Brown we're talking about and he seems to have
> tried out just about everything on a carrier.
>
>

P-39 AH574, which was passed to the Royal Navy and used for
experimental work, including the first carrier landing
by a tricycle undercarriage aircraft on 4 April 1945
on HMS Pretoria Castle, scrapped March 1946.

Brown, Captain Eric. Wings on My Sleeve.
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006. ISBN 0-297-84565-9

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AH574

[Mike Mackenzie]

Netko > wrote (in part):

>On Fri, 30 May 2014 20:24:41 +0100, Syke wrote
>(in article >):
>
>> P-39 Airacobra.
>
>Thanks. I was put off the scent becasue I've never heard of the RN ever
>showing interest in the P-39, far less trying it out on a carrier.
>
>Then again, it's Eric Brown we're talking about and he seems to have tried
>out just about everything on a carrier.
>
In your BBC link he is called Captain Winkle Brown, and appears to be
in RAF uniform. Is this the Eric Brown you refer to?

Presumably his alleged rank is a BBC error.

--
Mike Mackenzie (AVCOM Services)
Brisbane, AUSTRALIA
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[Ramsman]

On 31/05/2014 09:52, Mike Mackenzie wrote:
> Netko > wrote (in part):
>
>> On Fri, 30 May 2014 20:24:41 +0100, Syke wrote
>> (in article >):
>>
>>> P-39 Airacobra.
>>
>> Thanks. I was put off the scent becasue I've never heard of the RN ever
>> showing interest in the P-39, far less trying it out on a carrier.
>>
>> Then again, it's Eric Brown we're talking about and he seems to have tried
>> out just about everything on a carrier.
>>
> In your BBC link he is called Captain Winkle Brown, and appears to be
> in RAF uniform. Is this the Eric Brown you refer to?
>
> Presumably his alleged rank is a BBC error.
>

Eric Brown is indeed an RN captain.
He might be wearing RAF uniform in the photo because he was a member of
the Edinburgh University Air Squadron before he joined the Royal Naval
Volunteer Reserve.

The worst thing about the site is where it refers to him as an "infamous
RAF pilot".

I'm looking forward to the programme and wondering how many errors it
will contain.
--
Peter

[Orval Fairbairn]

In article >,
Netko > wrote:

> I'm sure it will be obvious when someone tells me but I can't for the life of
> me identify this aircraft being landed by Eric Brown on a Royal Navy carrier.
> Will someone please put me out of my misery?
>
> The photograph is a grab from a forthcoming TV programme about Brown (BBC2
> this Sunday if you're in the UK). Details of the programme (complete with
> some film clips) are at:
>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b045pbq2
>
> The great man seems on fine form but I'm tempted to strangle whoever is
> responsible for that background music.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> [Image]

Bell P-39 (or P-400) Airacobra.