{"id":1295,"date":"2016-02-27T14:53:28","date_gmt":"2016-02-27T14:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/?p=1295"},"modified":"2016-06-12T17:58:20","modified_gmt":"2016-06-12T16:58:20","slug":"captain-eric-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/captain-eric-brown\/","title":{"rendered":"Captain Eric Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Eric_Brown_in_uniform_med.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Eric_Brown_in_uniform_med.jpg\" alt=\"Eric_Brown_in_uniform_med\" width=\"225\" height=\"292\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1674\" \/><\/a><p>You will have seen the reports that Royal High former pupil Captain Eric Brown has passed away at the grand age of 97 after a short illness.  Eric attended our RHS London Club dinners in 2011 and 2012, as guest speaker, together with his partner Jean and he made a big impression on those audiences with his inspirational speeches.  One of our members, Gordon Burt, has provided links to some of Eric&#8217;s obituaries taken from publications at home and abroad &#8211; I am forwarding these on to you below.  I have also sent a condolence card to Jean and family on behalf of the RHS London Club.\r\n\r\nBest Regards\r\n\r\nAlex\r\n<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-sussex-35626854\">BBC News<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/02\/23\/world\/europe\/eric-winkle-brown-pilot-dies.html?_r=0\">New York Times<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/tto\/opinion\/obituaries\/article4696260.ece\">The Times<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/obituaries\/12167611\/Captain-Eric-Winkle-Brown-obituary.html\">The Telegraph<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eric_Brown_(pilot)\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>And then of course just on Friday the BBC announced there was be a change of programme and at 7pm on BBC2 showed a repeat of &#8220;Britain&#8217;s Greatest Pilot..&#8221;: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b045pbq2\">http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b045pbq2<\/a> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You will have seen the reports that Royal High former pupil Captain Eric Brown has passed away at the grand age of 97 after a short illness. Eric attended our RHS London Club dinners in 2011 and 2012, as guest speaker, together with his partner Jean and he made a big impression on those audiences [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-post"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1295"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1845,"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions\/1845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}