Why A Luftwaffe Test Pilot Said The P-47 Cockpit "Could Baffle An Expert

In November 1943, a P-47 Thunderbolt from the 355th Fighter Group landed intact at a Luftwaffe airfield in Normandy after its pilot became disoriented in the overcast. Three days later, Hans-Werner Lerche — chief test pilot at Erprobungsstelle Rechlin, Germany's central flight evaluation center, and