Old Piccy

[Zak33]

just going through my Web pages and found this, that I scanned a year ago from my Dad's collection

IL-2's very low.....

beautifull wing profile in the shadows, huh?

*sigh*

I love these planes

[Stolly]

Thats an amazing pic, God knows what the backseaters were thinking as the trees rushed by above them

[Dakaras]

Mmmmm nice piccy

[MasterFlash]

very nice, thx for sharing

[TiG]

Yummy, makes me want to blow up stuff tonight but i've got to travel back to wycombe tonight and NO internet to play il2 for another 6 nights

Lovely picture but damn it makes me want to play heh

TiG

[Dakaras]

TiG Im finishing in Wycombe Monday Fancy a beer bout 5ish?

[MA_Moby]

nice piccie, just like a mission with the BOA boys

[Capt Doufos]

Are there any IL2's in Museums in this country? ANy Airworthy anywhere in the world?

I know there are Flying IL-16 and IL-153's

[MA_Moby]

Are there any IL2's in Museums in this country? ANy Airworthy anywhere in the world?

I know there are Flying IL-16 and IL-153's

As far as I know there aren't any in Museums in this country, there maybe some lurking in former the Soviet bloc.

There's an IL10 at Monino museum in Russia ~ http://www.moninoaviation.com/8a.html but it doesn't look in very good nick. Too little funding and left outside in the Russian winter!

As for airworthy examples - none that i know of. Amazing considering the tens of thousands that were built!

You're right about the i-16s and i-153s. There were a bunch of them restored and on sale in New Zealand recently - part of the Alpine Fighter Collection.

[Zak33]

unreal isn't it...one of the best respected, heaviest engineered and strongest planes or WW2, possibly of all time....

and they're all gone

Probably smelted down and dismantled in the USSR

[Capt Doufos]

Apparently the Luftwaffe captured over 100 of them, apparently they never flew them because of the poor build Quality!

[MA_Moby]

unreal isn't it...one of the best respected, heaviest engineered and strongest planes or WW2, possibly of all time....

and they're all gone

Probably smelted down and dismantled in the USSR

If they're putting wrecks like this on display ~

http://www.hampage.hu/repules/szolnok/il2roncs.jpg

..then they must be rare indeed. This one is in Szolnok in Hungary.

There's apparantly one in Kbely Air Museum in Prague.

[Zak33]

Moby ...where on earth did you find that piccy...not Google surely....

what a WASTE....the tear in my eye would only be larger if that was a Yak9 or Lagg 3 rotting away

[MA_Moby]

Moby ...where on earth did you find that piccy...not Google surely....

what a WASTE....the tear in my eye would only be larger if that was a Yak9 or Lagg 3 rotting away

Yeah - googled it somehow.

To be fair they'd rescued that one from the bottom of a lake. All the wood had been burned and rotted away, so just the metal bits survive. It shows just how tough those birds were that they could still be so intact having been shot down and left in a Lake for forty or so years!