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Old 02-04-2011, 05:39 AM
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Originally Posted by WTE_Galway View Post
Remember that in real life the "bush planes" that successfully landed in those meadows were things like the Storch or the Westland Lysander NOT a bf109 G10 or P51D.
Helmut Lipfert describes in his book how he got lost on the Eastern Front and had to land his bf109 G in a field to get directions from some peasants. He then took off again but forgot to put on his seat belt. He subsequently crashed into a building (I think he ran out of fuel) and what saved him was that he was not wearing a seatbelt as he was flung from the wreckage.
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