| LC control no. | n 80156621 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Brown, Eric Melrose |
| Variant(s) | Brown, Eric, 1919-2016 Winkle, 1919-2016 |
| Associated country | Scotland Great Britain England |
| Located | Copthorne (West Sussex, England) |
| Birth date | 1919-01-21 |
| Death date | 2016-02-21 |
| Place of birth | Leith (Edinburgh, Scotland) |
| Place of death | Redhill (Surrey, England) |
| Field of activity | Aeronautics |
| Affiliation | Great Britain. Royal Navy |
| Profession or occupation | Air pilots Test pilots |
| Found in | Author's Wings on my sleeve, 1961. His Wings of the navy, 1980: t.p. (Captain Eric Brown) jkt. (Eric "Winkle" Brown) Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02 (b. 1919) BL auth. file, viewed 25 February 2014 (access point: Brown, Eric, 1919-; born 21 January 1919) Wikipedia, viewed 25 February 2014 (Captain Eric Melrose "Winkle" Brown, CBE, DSC, AFC, Hon FRAeS, born 21 January 1919; Leith, Scotland. He is a British former Royal Navy officer and test pilot; currently lives in Copthorne, West Sussex) New York times WWW site, viewed Feb. 23, 2016 (in obituary published Feb. 22: Eric Melrose Brown; b. Eric Melrose Brown, Jan. 21, 1919, Leith, Scotland; d. Sunday [Feb. 21, 2016], East Surrey Hospital, Redhill, south of London, aged 97; lived in Copthorne; renowned British Navy test pilot who shattered records and made history with exploits that advanced Allied fighter power in World War II and quests for jet propulsion and supersonic speeds in postwar aviation) |
| Associated language | eng |
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