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http://www.polikarpov.co.nz
nice little findsome movie clips.. pics etc... oh.. and if you're minted, even a couple for sale
"Clear?" - thumbs up from the engineer with the fire extinguisher, engage, two or three blades and the AsH-62 engine starts up with a series of loud bangs from the open exhausts, pump the primer whenever it dies, watch for oil pressure rising, maintain 800 rpm until it runs evenly and try not to breathe too much of the white oily smoke which billows through the floor and around the windscreen before it whips away in the slipstream to form a cloud 100 metres behind.
This is the Polikarpov I-153 Chaika and I sometimes wonder, as it shakes and snorts after start-up, what a young Russian fighter pilot must have been thinking 60 years ago in Siberia at minus 30° with snow showers - his machine-guns all armed and his leather greatcoat buttoned up to his nose."
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