Eric is the most amazing pilot having flown a Staggering number of plane types. His talks are entertaining and interesting and there are a number of interviews on Youtube. As the article says he was the only allied pilot to fly the Me163 under power and Eric's account of it can be found

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PN9AP710e0

His huge list of 487 aircraft types flown is listed

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...inkle%22_Brown

Without any exaggeration the greatest pilot ever, especially as many of the types were experimental and far from easy to fly. He was the person that discovered why Geoffrey de Havilland was killed in the Dh108 when he flew one of the 3 prototypes and it went into a rapid uncontrolled pitch up and down at close to Mach 1. Eric managed to control it and slow up till it stopped. It must have taken great courage to fly planes like the He162 when he would have known that the prototype crashed making a display when the wing failed due to a wooden skin coming apart.

His book the 'Wings of the Luftwaffe Flying the captured German aircraft of World War II" is a great read.

John