Battle of the Atlantic | Longest Continuous Military Campaign of World War Two | HMS Searcher Ruler-Lass Escort Carrier | Signed First Day Cover Stamped Envelope
Captain Eric Melrose 'Winkle' Brown, CBE, DSC, AFC, Hon FRAeS (21 January 1919 - 21 February 2016) was a British Royal Navy officer and test pilot who flew 487 types of aircraft, more than anyone else in history.
(Book #ID 112387)
3rd September 2013.
8½'' x 5''. Certified Copy No. 16 of 25 first day Royal Navy cover stamped envelope. Brown holds the world record for the most aircraft carrier deck take-offs and landings performed (2,407 and 2,271 respectively) and achieved several firsts in naval aviation, including the first landings on an aircraft carrier of a twin-engined aircraft, an aircraft with a tricycle undercarriage, a jet aircraft, and a rotary-wing aircraft. SIGNED 'Eric Brown' to the front cover + one close-cut signature on lined paper 'Eric Brown' + colour supplement clipping article on Eric Brown titled 'Great Britons'. One double-sided cachet insert. In Fine condition. Member of the P.B.F.A.
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