The Cockpit EP1 - Slipstream
Premiered:
Duration: 00:24:46
Synopsis:
Captain Erhardt Von Rheindars, a German fighter pilot who is disgraced for abandoning his Fw 190 after his wingman, Lt. Erich Hartmann, is shot down by three enemy Spitfires during a night recon mission, is assigned to escort a captured American B-17 bomber. The bomber is to carry his childhood sweetheart, her scientist father and a fearsome secret cargo - a Nazi atom bomb and for the mission is given a prototype Ta 152, after his complaints about the high altitude performance of his Fw 190. The night before the mission Rheindars's sweetheart begs him to let enemy planes destroy the bomber before "humanity sells its soul to the devil forever", even though she and her father will die with it. On the next day, after shooting down two of three RAF attackers by using the Ta 152, Rheindars allows the third Spitfire to destroy the bomber afterwards Rheindars destroys the third Spitfire and flies off declaring himself "the man who did not sell his soul to the devil".