It,s a small world
I have lots of photos of Pingel, his 109 F etc. Corresponded with Rolf Pingel and sent him, years ago, a desk model of a 109 F cast from alloy of his old aeroplane. He was made up with it!
I recently did a biggish article about his 109 in “Britain at War” magazine and a piece on it in 1979 for “After The Battle” mag.
Cheers Andy,
Ask this as quite a few years ago a small model shop here had a small club of guys whom I was a member.One of the other guys wife was a grandchild,(niece???) of Rolf and remember the conversation regarding the “After the Battle” magazine that was for sale at the store.The wife was quite proud of Rolf and could never understand why he got a hard time from his service as he was a Spanish civil war veteran,a Staffel leader (IIRC) and a very good pilot.Think (chancing old memory here) he was one of the first pilots to shoot down an enemy plane in the 109.As they say chance is sometimes a pilots best friend.
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