Dan recalls that his uncle survived a catastrophic engine fire on takeoff in a Seafire and had to be pulled from the overturned, burning aircraft. He remembers photographs of the wreck and identifies the accident as an early Seafire write-off. After recovering, his uncle worked with Eric Winkle Brown on the evaluation of captured Japanese, German, and Italian aircraft. The uncle is unnamed in this family recollection.
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A family account of a Seafire accident and captured-aircraft testing
A family recollection connects a Seafire takeoff accident with later work evaluating captured aircraft alongside Eric Winkle Brown.