Word: rstenfeldbruck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...speed-crazy. Now the boys tell me, 'Jets are too fast. We don't want one foot in the grave.' " Old Luftwaffe pilots, now in their late 30s or early 40s, prove slower to train than their opposite U.S. numbers, report U.S. instructors at Fürstenfeldbruck. Banned from the air for ten years, baffled by the jet age complexities, bridling at homework and "NATO English," and afflicted by the general Ohne mich ("Count me out") psychology which infects German soldiery, the tigers of 1940 have not yet recovered their bite...