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#2498001 - 04/20/08 03:13 PM
Re: OT: Eric Brown "Wings On My Sleeve" Anyone Read It?
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BlackLion
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got my copy of the reprint during the 2006 Duxford Flying Legends show and even got it signed by the man himself  great man, great book great read-GET IT!!!!!
Experience of battle divides those who talk about nothing but the anticipation from those who talk about everything but the memory of it.
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#2498162 - 04/20/08 10:13 PM
Re: OT: Eric Brown "Wings On My Sleeve" Anyone Read It?
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Loved this book too. Just gave my copy away to an air minded friend and I'll probably regret it someday. But he is a good friend so I'll probably get it back if I want it.
The Empire Audacity bit was handy for campaign building (Senior Service) but I liked the DH108 Swallow testing where he pushed it to the limits in the footsteps of Geoffrey De Havilland and almost became another victim of the aircraft's vices...'so this is how it happened'. Brilliant.
A lonely impulse of delight, drove to this tumult in the clouds
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#2498302 - 04/21/08 05:53 AM
Re: OT: Eric Brown "Wings On My Sleeve" Anyone Read It?
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Kamikuza
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Yeah good read but I think he had a bit of a sheltered war ... more testing orientated like 'Yeagar' than combat stories. I think 'The Big Show' is the best combat orientated book I've read! But a bloody good read in fact, I'm going to read it again!
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#2498313 - 04/21/08 06:41 AM
Re: OT: Eric Brown "Wings On My Sleeve" Anyone Read It?
[Re: Kamikuza]
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Lipfert's bio is better than the Big Show.
There was only 16 squadrons of RAF fighters that used 100 octane during the BoB.
The Fw190A could not fly with the outer cannon removed.
There was no Fw190A-8s flying with the JGs in 1945.
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#2498797 - 04/21/08 10:40 PM
Re: OT: Eric Brown "Wings On My Sleeve" Anyone Read It?
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I don't have it, but it's on my short list. I do have "Duels in the Sky," which is excellent.
------------- Think the F6F is too slow? It is.
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Exodus
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