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Originally posted by Mark Allen.

Here's what one of the expert Luftwaffe guys had to say:

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I remember sitting in the cockpit of a Heinkel like this when two of them came to Britain for the filming of the B of B movie in 1968.

Two things I recall were the peculiar smell that the aircraft had, unlike any other aircraft smell I had ever experienced either before or afterwards. Sort of a combination of a stale rubber/benzine/vegetable oil is the only way I can describe it.

The second memory of sitting in that big glasshouse of a nose was thinking how vulnerable the crew must have felt in combat, especially if a British fighter had elected to carry out a full frontal attack. It would have taken some 'intestinal fortitude' to stay in formation and not to break away when faced with a battery of eight Brownings hosing tracers, etc right in your face.

I think that airmen of both sides were part of a special generation.

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