Interview with WWII reconaissance pilot
 

http://mig3.sovietwarplanes.com/pilo...asnov-eng.html
As usual - comments and questions welcome

Ouch

"So I took off… I’m afraid to remember this till these days. I was drunk.
Germans were walking in crowds. A crowd. Trucks, tanks, horse drawn carts, people and so on.
There was no way I could refuse myself a pleasure to strafe them, especially since I was under effect of alcohol…
When I came back, all technicians came to take a look at my plane,
I brought tree branches, blood, pieces of clothes in my radiator intake."

Oleg !!!!!

Can we have.....................................

Yeah. Sure. New genre: "Splatter Ntrk"

Reality is bad enough.

Well, much like this Russian recon pilot, I fly drunk sometimes too :). Strangely, my gunnery is better after a few pops....

Excellent article! Those guys lived it and I love reading/seeing their interviews. They talk about getting shot at and even shot down like it was a walk to the pub. They had big brass dangly ones for sure.

Splitter

very nice read, thank you!
I was talking to an old RAF pilot some weeks ago and when I asked him if he had any interesting stories to tell, he shrugged his shoulders and said "just think of the craziest thing you could possibly do in an aeroplane.. no matter how weird, someone somewhere at some point must have done it. It's the nature of flying that pushed us beyond boundaries.. and probably the fact that we were flying high performance planes that we didn't pay for!"

Good read, thanks

You forgot something to quote:

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disgusting. :-x



also:

Yes, it is always the problem with looking too closely at any history.

We see what it is.

History is almost never justified. But we can find truth in it.

Oh, as usual - Bravo on the accuracy, the variety of questions and the depth to the history.
This work is a tremendous service.

The only thing that I could think of is to extend it to the Great Domestic War - to gather a few stories from factory workers, farmers - people who survived and kept the infrastructure going. I'm sure it would be fascinating for some of us a half-century later.

Yea so? would you rather he wave and say better luck next time.........:rolleyes: