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Offline Bubbaj6

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Please Help Identify This Plane
« on: July 17, 2004, 07:00:03 PM »
I was in Volgograd (Stalingrad) a few months ago and took this picture at the main mueseum for the battle.  I have been trying to figure out what kind of plane it is but so far I have had no luck.  Anyone here happen to know what it is?

http://www.geocities.com/johnrrtx/

Edits were for me trying to imbed picture in post.  Sorry for the link only but couldn't find a way to do it.
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Offline joeblogs

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Re: Please Help Identify This Plane
« Reply #1 on: July 17, 2004, 10:52:17 PM »
Canopy, spinner,  and tail look like an SU-2 ground attack plane. But the cowling is not quite right and the wings have too high an angle of incidence. I wonder if it's not a reconnaissance version (su-6?)

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Originally posted by Bubbaj6
I was in Volgograd (Stalingrad) a few months ago and took this picture at the main mueseum for the battle.  I have been trying to figure out what kind of plane it is but so far I have had no luck.  Anyone here happen to know what it is?

http://www.geocities.com/johnrrtx/

Edits were for me trying to imbed picture in post.  Sorry for the link only but couldn't find a way to do it.

Offline Bubbaj6

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Please Help Identify This Plane
« Reply #2 on: July 18, 2004, 11:23:05 AM »
I think the wings are angled that way for "lack of maintainence" reasons rather than design.  When I looked at it closely there was some definite damage around the wing roots so I think they have just somewhat sagged over time.

I was thinking SU-6 at one time as well but the canopy looks wrong to me.  All of the photos and the like I have seen of the SU-6 have a rear firing machine gun position and this plane does not.

I don't think it is an SU-2 either because the overall lines do not seem to match up particularly in that this plane looks "stocky" and the SU-2 looks "long an skinny" to me if that makes sense.

Thanks for the ideas though and if you think of any other possibles let me know!