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Luftwaffe Fighter Pilot

Captain Kurt

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Just uploaded this repaint of Shessi's bgl Luftwaffe BOB bomber pilot which he developed from Wolfi's source file. It represents a generic Luftwaffe fighter pilot which could be from any period during the war.

The pilot can be added to any plane as a payload via the plane's .dp file.

Shessi's original read me document is included for installation instructions.
 
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Kurt,

Oops! This is what I missed while I was crying into my beer. I'll approve it right away. Great work! :wavey:
 
Luftwaffe Fighter Pilot.zip

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A new entry has been added to Add-Ons Library, category CFS 2 Other Add-Ons

Description: This is a repaint of Shessi's bgl Luftwaffe BOB bomber pilot he developed from Wolfi's source file. It represents a generic Luftwaffe fighter pilot which could be from any period during the war.

The pilot can be added to any plane as a payload via the plane's .dp file.

Shessi's original read me document is included for installation instructions.

To check it out, rate it or add comments, visit Luftwaffe Fighter Pilot.zip
The comments you make there will appear in the posts below.
 
Please do

You really should talk to him - that's Adolph Galland, who is still alive, and he does speak English (I don't know about his Italian though) He was in fact advisor on the 1968 movie about "Battle of Britain" and one of the great German aces - and NOT a nazi.
Finn
 
Unfortnately Finn, the only way you'll speak to Galland is through a spiritual medium, he died in 1996.....:engel016:....

Seen a few of his interviews (excellent one on the BBC's Secret War 1977), comes across very well, a real fighter pilot's - fighter pilot.

Cheers

Shessi
 
Unfortnately Finn, the only way you'll speak to Galland is through a spiritual medium, he died in 1996.....:engel016:....

Seen a few of his interviews (excellent one on the BBC's Secret War 1977), comes across very well, a real fighter pilot's - fighter pilot.

Cheers

Shessi

That's it, Finn.

I know exactly who General Adolf Galland was and his deeds. The aircraft picture I posted is Mauro Giacomazzi's rendition of Galland's mount at the height the Battle of Britain in August 1940, a Bf109E-4N.

Mauro's plane hasn't a pilot figure modelled in the *.mdl, so it requires an external pilot allowing this magnificent Wolfi/Shessi/CaptainKurt creation in the cockpit.

If you are interested, go to YouTube and enter 'Adolf Galland' as search key. You'll get a ton of amazing downloadable materials about this legendary pilot, who became friend with several Allied pilots after the war, most notably RAF Robert Stanford-Tuck. Galland's legend is enriched by his chivalry and correct behaviour towards downed opponent pilots. His no-nonsense arguments against Goering and Hitler are part of WWII history.

Back to the topic, I wish there were more aircrafts in CFS2 addon collection where the pilot figure could be replaced by this one!

Cheers!
KH
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Great advise

Thank you for that tip - it will take quite some time to get through it all, but what I already checked looked fantastic.:adoration:
Finn
 
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If you are interested, go to YouTube and enter 'Adolf Galland' as search key. You'll get a ton of amazing downloadable materials about this legendary pilot, who became friend with several Allied pilots after the war, most notably RAF Robert Stanford-Tuck. Galland's legend is enriched by his chivalry and correct behaviour towards downed opponent pilots. His no-nonsense arguments against Goering and Hitler are part of WWII history.

Stefano,

Not a problem to bring this up. Many WWII German pilots were professional pilots and soldiers first. Adolf Galland was one, Werner Molders was another. Molders demanded that all captured Allied pilots under his command be treated civilly, even inviting captured Allied pilots to dine with him.

Another that comes to mind is Franz Stigler. One of my favorite quotes by a WWII German commander was from Gustav Rodel, then a commanding officer in Jagdgeschwader 27 in North Africa: "You are fighter pilots first, last, always. If I ever hear of any of you shooting at someone in a parachute, I'll shoot you myself."

Franz Stigler was in JG 27 in North Africa and remembered Gustav's words when he went after the B-17 over Germany, hence why he guided the B-17 home.
 
Stefano,

Not a problem to bring this up. Many WWII German pilots were professional pilots and soldiers first. Adolf Galland was one, Werner Molders was another. Molders demanded that all captured Allied pilots under his command be treated civilly, even inviting captured Allied pilots to dine with him.

Another that comes to mind is Franz Stigler. One of my favorite quotes by a WWII German commander was from Gustav Rodel, then a commanding officer in Jagdgeschwader 27 in North Africa: "You are fighter pilots first, last, always. If I ever hear of any of you shooting at someone in a parachute, I'll shoot you myself."

Franz Stigler was in JG 27 in North Africa and remembered Gustav's words when he went after the B-17 over Germany, hence why he guided the B-17 home.

Yes Andrew,

Stanford-Tuck was received by Galland when he was shot down over France, that was the starting point of a friendship which lasted their entire lifetimes. Galland and Molders were good friends as well, both honed their skills in the Legion Condor during the Spanish Civil War and both kept the same behaviour with POW Allied aviators, trying their best within the Nazi police system to ease their imprisonment life.

Stanford-Tuck and Galland were consultant during the shooting of the 1968 "Battle of Britain" epic movie and both prevented the movie script from taking strange directions from what actually happened in 1940. This is one of the several reasons why this movie is so great, flying real aircrafts among them, and why it will last forever as a top ranking classic WWII aviation movie.

I have a book written in 1967 about the making of the "Battle of Britain". In it there's an episode where Galland showed once again his true feelings about the Nazis. In one of the last scenes of the movie, when an angry Goering leaves Northern France aboard his private train, accusing his staff to have betrayed him, the script called for Feldmarshall Kesselring raising his arm in the Nazi salute as the train moved.

The book tells how Galland shot up from his chair screaming "No, no!" and broke into the scene, thus ruining the sequence, which had to be shot again. "We were soldiers and the Nazi salute was neither used nor welcome in the Luftwaffe! Only the traditional military salute should be used here!" were Galland's words, who threatened Guy Hamilton, the movie director, to leave the movie staff if the scene would have not been changed.

Despite Galland's fierce opposition, the scene remained as such, and Stanford-Tuck had the tough job of bringing Galland back to the movie, which he did to the movie great advantage.

This is who Adolf Galland was.

Cheers!
KH
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