Brian Lecomber

Brian Lecomber (* 1945 in London , † 24. September 2015 ) was a British stunt pilot and writer .

Life

Lecomber was an auto mechanic and journalist, flight instructor and adventurer. He hung around the Caribbean, took jobs as a flight instructor and occasional pilot at flight schools, invested the money he earned in aerobatics training and performed at flight shows with his aerobatic biplane, a Pitts Special (registration number: G-BOOK). His breakthrough came with three bestsellers: crime and adventure novels from the world of aviation, which have been translated into sixteen languages ​​and sold in the millions.

Firebird Aerobatics

At the end of the 1970s he joined the Rothmans Aerobatic Team, for which he flew for several years as a wingman, and in 1981 founded his own formation, the Firebird Aerobatics. Supported by changing sponsors such as Dunlop , Rover and Toyota , the formation based in Denham Aerodrome, Buckinghamshire developed into the leading civil aerobatic team in Great Britain. It was dissolved in 2003 after the last sponsorship contract expired and there was no successor. The balance of the 23 years: 2,800 performances solo or in formation in 15 countries, no accident.

Books

• Last looping , Unionsverlag, 2000 (original title Turn Killer , published 1975)
• Smuggled cargo to Puerto Rico , Goldmann Verlag, 1979 (original title Dead Weight , published 1976)
• Flight into the Unknown , Verlag Schröder, 1979 (original title Talk Down , published 1978)

Web links

• Literature by and about Brian Lecomber in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of all members of the Rottmans Aerobatic Team ( Memento of the original from April 27, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ^ Obituary of the British magazine "Pilot" from September 28, 2015