Brown Captain Eric Winkle (21 results)

Condition: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Later Printing.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. All of our books without an ISBN number (normally pre-1970 in date) are described individually in detail. Books with an ISBN number (this one included) are all offered for sale in good condition or better: some may be in very good, near fine, or fine condition. If the condition is critical to your decision to purchase, then please contact us and we will let you know our view of its condition. If the book is very heavy, we will may need to contact you before completion of purchase to advise you of extra postage costs.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardback. Condition: Fine.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book is published within the landscape format and has some evidence of spotting present.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 9th Impression. Paperback. Wings on My Sleeve. The author joined the Fleet Air Arm and went on to be the greatest test pilot in history, flying more aircraft types than anyone else. Illustrated. 296 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hardcover in jacket. Light bumping to book and jacket; jacket has some wear to edges as well. Otherwise clean, tight, and unmarked. Very neat--a sound and handsome copy. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Hardback; dent to corners of boards, otherwise very good in creased and chipped dustjacket.; Revised and expanded edition of the book first published 1977. The author's experiences testing German aeroplanes. An appraisal of the background and characteristics of all the major German aircraft of World War Two. Covering 11 manufacturers and 33 types. Over 250 photographs, colour profiles, cockpit layouts and sectional drawings.; 271 pages.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hardback with dust-wrapper. 31cm x 22cm. 343pp. Numerous b&w plates/illustrations. Reprinted 2015. Spine a little skewed, slight edge wear to d/w. Clean inside. A very decent copy. A heavy book, additional postage may be required for orders outside the UK. (q24).…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. This copy is in as new, unmarked condition bound in blue cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. The price clipped dust wrapper has some edge wear especially to the head and foot of the spine so best described as near fine condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Eric 'Winkle' Brown the author was a pilot who has enjoyed one ofg the most extraordinary careers in flying. He was the first naval officer to head the elite Aerodynamics Flight at Farnborough where he tested captured German types at the end of World War Two. In this book he records his 'from the cockpit' experiences testing British and American carrier aircraft. Carrier operations are potentially the harshest and most dangerous test aircraft and pilot can face. Landing on the pitching, bucking deck of a carrier or catapulted over a plunging bow, shipboard aircraft had to be exceptional. Their real characters have been forgotten and distorted over the passage of time; now this book places on record the flying characteristics, good, bad and indifferent, of aircraft as varied as the Fairey Swordfish and Grumman Hellcat. Sixteen types are covered, each illustrated with cutaways, cockpit details and many photographs. Ref HHH 1.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Dj in a protective sleeve. Aircraft.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hikoki Publications Manchester 2013 VG+ (black cloth w title in gilt on spine, v sl worn) in VG+ DW (v sl rubbed and worn).

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. This copy is in new, unmarked condition bound in burgundy cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. The unclipped dust wrapper is in new condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. In this book Captain Eric 'Winkle' Brown takes his readers into the cockpits of some rare and unusual aircraft as well as some well known ones he has flown during the period 1938 - 1950. Captain brown analyses their flight characteristics with the critical assessment of the skilled test pilot, and reveals some of the idiosyncrasies and delights of a very varied assortment of forty four aircraft. The most impressive flights were those made in captured German aircraft, without pilots notes, without a breifing and with no knowledge of the airworthyness of the aircraft or engine. All he had was fluent German, many years of experience and "feel". Ref M 4.…

First edition. Hardback. Book and dust jacket are in Fine bright condition. Extensively illustrated. Jacket fitted with a new removable clear cover. Securely packaged.

Condition: New. pp. 272.

Quarto, dark chocolate brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus/photos, VG+ (minor bruising to head of spine and extrems) in d/w, VG+ (minor creasing to edges and extrems) (photos available on request).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 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. Turner, Michael (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Signed by Eric "Winkle" Brown (Author) and Michael Turner (Illustrator). Book and dust jacket are in a very good condition. 144pp with colour illustrations. Collectible limited edition. Signed by Author(s).