Too Close for Comfort: Close Encounters of the Terminal Kind

2015 Blacker large format hardcover edition. Light reading wear else very good condition. From the cover: This is the story of one man's close encounters of the terminal kind. Captain Eric Brown CBE, DSC, AFC, QCVSA, is regarded as one of the greatest test pilots in history, and the fact that he has outlived all his contemporaries, is a testament to his skills as an aviator. Too Close for Comfort is based on a list of Eric Brown's recorded near misses, compiled by Neil Armstrong, his great friend, astronaut and fellow naval test pilot. It tells the story of fifteen of the most dramatic and hair-raising episodes in his flying career, and these have now been captured as a series of original paintings by renowned aviation artist, Michael Turner. The stunning artworks and artist's sketches bring to life the atmosphere and drama of these moments in the author's legendary career. Retold in his own inimitable style, the incidents include; narrowly surviving an attack from a Messerschmitt Bf 109 in a Norwegian fjord while flying a Blackburn Skua, developing the method of head-on attack on a heavily armed Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Kurier, and being dragged unconscious from the Solent after hitting some floating debris and cartwheeling the prototype SR/A1 jet seaplane.…