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Outlandings

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Der rote Kampfflieger von Rittmeister Manfred Freiherrn von Richthofen, 1917, 351.000 - 400.000, Verlag Ullstein & Co, Berlin-Wien

16 November 1915

Aus meiner Döberitzer Ausbildungszeit
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Gut Buchow
Döberitz

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Der rote Kampfflieger von Rittmeister Manfred Freiherrn von Richthofen, 1917, 351.000 - 400.000, Verlag Ullstein & Co, Berlin-Wien p.   

‘We often had fun times in Döberitz. For example, one of the conditions was: ‘Outlandings. On this occasion, I combined the necessary with the pleasant. I chose a familiar estate called Buchow as my landing site. I had been invited to go boar hunting there, but it didn’t go well with my work, because I wanted to fly on nice evenings and still pursue my passion for hunting. So I arranged my landing site so that I could easily reach my hunting grounds from there. I took a second pilot with me as an observer and sent him back in the evening. At night I landed on sows and was picked up again the next morning by this pilot. If I hadn’t been picked up, I would have been pretty much on dry land, as I would have had to walk about ten kilometres. So I needed a man to pick me up from my high seat in all weathers. It’s not everyone’s cup of tea not to take the weather into consideration, but I managed to find a man with a good mind. [71]One morning, after I had spent the night outside again, a tremendous snowstorm began. You couldn’t see fifty metres. It was eight o’clock, the time the pilot was supposed to pick me up. I silently hoped he would leave it alone this time. But all of a sudden I heard a buzzing – I couldn’t see anything – five minutes later my beautiful bird lay slightly bent in front of me.’

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