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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Grendel on May 31, 2005, 03:11:54 PM
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Peter Spoden & Klaus J Scheer.
German night fighter pilots.
24 victories & 20 victories.
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Do we get some more info on the interview????
*batshereylashes* prettyplease?
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Would be interesting to hear how great the role of night fighters was in RL WW2. Many vociferous gamey whiner types in here insisted that "night should not exist in AH". Some didn't even want clouds - or oil on the windscreen. :rolleyes:
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Originally posted by Grendel
(http://www.byterapers.com/~grendel/scan/historia/spoden_scheer.jpg)
Peter Spoden & Klaus J Scheer.
German night fighter pilots.
24 victories & 20 victories.
These guys were awesome. Big to Peter and Klaus.
They told very interesting stories and I am so pleased that I had a chance to meet them.
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Check this out : http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/showthread.php?t=1442 (http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/showthread.php?t=1442)
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From the link: "When asked both agreed that Locheed Constellation was a nice plane for pilot's point of view, even if it had its pecularities and this in spite of its engines. Scheer repeated the common oppinion that it was the best 3 enginepassager plane of its time."
Must be a typo. All the Connies I remember were 4 - engine jobbies.
Oh, wait, was he making a joke here? What was the problem with their engines?
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http://www.aviation-history.com/lockheed/1049.html
A rash of incidents in 1945 and 1946 caused this first civilian model of the Connie to be grounded for six weeks in July/August 1946 while the government aviation experts tried to sort out the causes. It was found the aircraft had no basic flaws and it was again pronounced airworthy, though engine problems continued to plague the craft, giving rise to the "Best Tri-Motor" label.
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Very cool.
Grendel, you writing a book?
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I might have MP3s and rough videos available this weekend. Any volunteers willing to help in transscribing the session? Either watch video or listen MP3 and type their chatting to text, so I can put it all together and publish it all? Some 30 minute clips, quite clear English chatting, with a beautiful German dialect hard "k's" thrown in ;-)
Drop in your email address or email me to jkauppin@jmp.fi if you're interested.
Which reminds me, fun chaps, those two, really. After the war they both studied and worked, then immediately jumped into the chance to get into rebuilt Lufthansa. "Lufthansa was the finest airline in Europe - and we wanted to build it again, to even better than it was". It was really nice to chat with them, gotta say again. Herr Spoden's most memorable experience was of course the 17 years old Hungarian girl ;-) He much preferred it to anything else that happened in the war. "I'm not proud of all that killing - but I'll tell you about Eva. That's a true story! A beautiful story!"
Which story actually still continues. He met Eva in '44 - and got a letter from Hungary 3 months ago from Eva, who had found Spoden's book (Enemy in the Dark, by Peter Spoden) and found how Spoden fondly remembered those days at the village and with Eva, even with photos of Eva - and wrote back to Peter. "Peter! I'm still here! I'm a grandmother! And Doctor!" And sent her photo. "She's a bit older now", Spoden said and laughed.
Now Peter is plannign a trip to Hungary :)
Amazing fellow, that guy :)
Jackal,
Not right now. Maybe some day. I'm putting these interviews together as a hobby, as love for aviation, non profit, and making some articles to a Finnish aviation magazine to recover some of the costs. A book - maybe some day.