"Naval Pilot Who Landed Jet Plane on Carrier. on 3 December 1945, Lieut Cdr Eric Melrose Brown, Mbe, Dsc, Rnvr, Chief Naval Test Pilot, Landed a De Havilland Sea Vampire Jet Aircraft on the Flight Deck of the British Aircraft Carrier HMS Ocean." Lieut Cdr Brown in the cockpit of an aircraft.