Re: Strong nerves the man had.
> I think Brown was on one of the early escort carriers
The Audacity. He was one of the few survivors picked up after a night in the north Atlantic.
The documentary has the utterly ludicrous footage of him gently landing a Mosquito on a carrier. It all looks easy and simple (for a deck landing) until he points out that that the maximum safe landing speed is at least 30knots below the Mosquito's stall speed...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
