10.09.2009, 07:56
Why the fascination for Luft46 planes ? Well, from a very superficial point of view, because they look great 
I'd say it's a combination of all the reasons already mentionned, but perhaps also because of the context. Germans have a tendency to be very rigorous and rigidly organized people, and so every last bit of info, every single document ever used by the Luftwaffe or any other German organisation was meticulously classified and kept for later reference. If a drunk Willy Messerschmidt had drawn a quick sketch of a plane with a cockpit facing backwards and vertical wings, called it the 'Me-Picasso' then sent it as a joke note to Goering forhis birthday, it'd have been kept. 60 years later historians and researchers would have unearthed it and we'd have a Picasso instead of a Lerche in 1946...
Cheers
Nico
I'd say it's a combination of all the reasons already mentionned, but perhaps also because of the context. Germans have a tendency to be very rigorous and rigidly organized people, and so every last bit of info, every single document ever used by the Luftwaffe or any other German organisation was meticulously classified and kept for later reference. If a drunk Willy Messerschmidt had drawn a quick sketch of a plane with a cockpit facing backwards and vertical wings, called it the 'Me-Picasso' then sent it as a joke note to Goering forhis birthday, it'd have been kept. 60 years later historians and researchers would have unearthed it and we'd have a Picasso instead of a Lerche in 1946...Cheers
Nico