Captain Eric 'Winkle' Brown - test pilot legend (part 1) 

I visited Tangmere museum, and saw I had missed his lecture by ONE day. Possibly the bggest disappointment of my life! (I was born lucky).

It's very sad his involvement with the Miles M.52 scandal cost him his Knighthood.

Sir Eric Winkle Brown

@awatt *He was denied his Knighthood because of his financial involvement with Dennis Bancroft in the M.52 scandal.*

@@sandervanderkammen9230 No miles scandal. You are just making stuff up as usual.

@@awatt *The Miles M.52 scandal is the most shameful and humiliating chapter in British aviation history.*

I grew up in the fifties. By the time I was seven, I knew the names of a few test pilots.

Unfortunately, Brown's involvement in the Miles M.52 embezzlement scandal cost him his Knighthood and tarnished his otherwise impeccable reputation.

Sir Eric Winkle Brown

@awatt @awatt *denied his Knighthood because of his financial involvement with Dennis Bancroft in the M.52 scandal.*

@@sandervanderkammen9230 Never happened.

He was from Yorkshire, England. Lots of people who are born in the county can have a very strong accent that is similar to what lots of people would think is Scottish as the county is in the northwest of the country it can be home to many who have this sort of accent as the late E. Brown did. To further elaborate on this I have a friend who’s parents don’t speak at all like him and even I used to be under the impression that he was Scottish but they are all Yorkshire folk.

@@TVBSZ he was born in Keith Scotland

That should be leith.

@@TVBSZ No he is not? HE is Scottish