German Ace Gunther Rall and Indian Connection

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German Ace Gunther Rall and Indian Connection

Post by Sakobav » Sun Jan 06, 2013 8:32 pm

I read about this on Marut pilots blog HF Marut Indias ambitious fighter jet was designed with Dr Kurt Tank assistance and then the third highest scoring ace came in history to check it a snippet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCnther_Rall

http://marutfans.wordpress.com/2010/04/ ... ther-rall/

German Ace Gunther Rall
Courtesy Polly Singh who sent this interesting piece :

“The Marut brought together many great fighter pilots of the IAF, one of the little known pilots to have been touched by the Marut was Günther Rall of the ‘BundesLuft’ or the’ New Airforce’ of then West Germany. Rall was the third highest scoroing ace of the second world war after Erich Hartmann (352 kills), Gerard Barkhorn (301 ) all of the Luftwaffe.
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Re: German Ace Gunther Rall and Indian Connection

Post by xl_target » Mon Jan 07, 2013 2:53 am

Very cool!
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Re: German Ace Gunther Rall and Indian Connection

Post by fantumfan2003 » Mon Jan 28, 2013 4:55 pm

:agree:

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xl_target wrote:Very cool!
There are some real gems on the Marutfans site.
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Re: German Ace Gunther Rall and Indian Connection

Post by YogiBear » Wed Jan 30, 2013 1:01 pm

Aloha,

Years ago I had heard that Kurt Tank was working in India in the Indian aviation program.

Now I know what he did.

FYI, His improved version of the FW 190, the Ta 152 was too little and Too late

to help Germany in the end.
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Re: German Ace Gunther Rall and Indian Connection

Post by sudhaiob » Wed Jan 30, 2013 3:53 pm

The post brought back nostalgic memories. I was brought up in Bangalore and resided in HAL colony at that time. My father was employed with HAL. As kids and at the height of Indo Pak conflicts ( i was to young during the Sino conflict), the merits of the Air Force planes were discussed at length by many of us. It was where we could see the diminutive Gnats, Maruts better known to us as as HF 24, Vampires, Hunters, Fairchilds, Dakotas (DC 3's). Bangalore was at that time,(maybe even now) an important air base and countless planes used to come and land. I personally witnessed 2 air crashes near my home, one of a HF 24 and another of a Fairchild Packet. Caribou, a replacement for the Fairchilds and an early passenger jet Caravelle were all eagerly spotted and discussed. This early close association with aircraft had me hooked to military history, which to my great regret did not pursue much after leaving Bangalore.
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