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Captain (RN) Eric "Winkle" Brown

If he was American, some sort of facility would have been named after Winkle Brown. Probably something to do with deck landing training or ship aircraft integration.

It was during his time flying from HMS Audacity that his exceptional talent for deck landing was identified. This is what led to him being sent to train pilots desperately needed for the war at sea, and led to him doing doing trials on new aircraft and new carriers. This is what led him to test flying.

He did the first ever landing of a twin engined aircraft on a carrier and the first carrier landing of a jet aircraft. He was involved in early helicopter trials (and the Royal Navy was the first to use helicopters operationally at sea), work with the early naval jets, demonstrated the Steam Catapult to the Americans, and helped arm the Navy for the Cold War.

Then he was involved with developing the flight deck layout for CVA-01 - the carrier that got cancelled in the sixties. He also had an involvement in the deck layout of the current Queen Elizabeth class carriers.
 
Captain brown is but one of a long list of great British test pilots and people who followed him like John Farley, Bill Bedford, Peter Twiss, John Derry, Rolly Beaumont and Brian Trubshaw to name but a few.
I'm being pedantic now, but it's Roland Beamont. His surname is often spelt incorrectly.
 

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