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tarkey


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Eric Winkle Brown

Here is an opportunity to listen to one of, if not the most famous of all Aviation Test Pilots.

Details are on the poster below

Friday 14th October 2011


DONT MISS THIS RARE OPPORTUNITY


Tickets available from

Martyn Cook                                  or        Robert  Dunnett 

4 Peel Yard                                             Cavendish

Martlesham Heath                                    341 Main Road

Suffolk                                                      Martlesham

 IP5 3UL                                                   Ipswich

01473 614442                                          IP5 2QU

                                                               01473 624510  

Please send cheque payable to MHAS

 

Get them now and avoid disapointment on the night




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Brown_%28pilot%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_flown_by_Eric_%22Winkle%22_Brown



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Some pictures from the night

Me with the great man ( thanks Tony G )

Below he talks about his friendship with Hanna Reitsch. I just watched her as a character in the movie operation Crossbow where she piloted a specially adapted doodlebug to find outwhy the kept crashing the previous 4 flights had ended in crashed with the deaths of the pilots.

see

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

Taylor Downing the other speaker talking about " Churchill and the Boffins "





-- Edited by tarkey on Tuesday 18th of October 2011 09:09:03 PM



-- Edited by tarkey on Tuesday 18th of October 2011 09:20:00 PM



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