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Offline VooWho

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« Reply #15 on: March 28, 2007, 05:09:40 PM »
and poor poor Aussies. COMMONWEALTH FIGHTER! but after the Iar80 :)
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« Reply #16 on: March 28, 2007, 11:29:54 PM »
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« Reply #17 on: March 29, 2007, 01:27:46 AM »
Bring it on!! I likes.
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« Reply #18 on: March 29, 2007, 07:04:44 AM »
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Offline Wurger

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« Reply #19 on: March 29, 2007, 01:58:28 PM »
I would also really love to have an IAR 80/81!  There is still a real one at the Military Museum in Bucuresti (Bucharest) that I got to crawl around on when I was there last fall.  Definately an interesting aircraft and would seem to be one that would be a lot of fun to fly in AH.
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« Reply #20 on: March 29, 2007, 03:02:19 PM »
Is that the one with the pro-Axis ARR markings? Outside display?

Theres that one and one done in pro-Allied markings in another museum, both are replicas built a while back by some enthusiasts. The Axis one was done as the first IAR-80 (4 .303s) as it would have appeared in the spring of 1941, and the one in the other museum is an OD IAR-80 with roundels, as it would have been paited over Transylvania in the fall-winter of 1944.

Both look nice from the outside, but have the cockpits wrong afaik.






The one on inside display has some serious errors wit hthe nose and prop, especially the spinner thats about half the size it should be. The other one is more accurate.
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« Reply #21 on: March 29, 2007, 03:10:33 PM »
This is the one inside, with the roundels.  It looks ok on the outside, but the bright blue seat cushions did look a little out of place ;)  The cockpit looks like it is workable, with proper instruments, etc.  I'll have to check my photos again, but I don't recall that really small spinner on it.

In October, they opened a new Museum of Aviation in Bucuresti, but I did not get to visit it yet.  When I am there in June, I plan to make it a priority to stop in there and see what they have!
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« Reply #22 on: March 29, 2007, 03:16:33 PM »
And what the heck, since I already posted a few pics...





http://octgon.hp.infoseek.co.jp/IAR80/romania-am01.htm has a bunch of detail shots of the one in the museum. I don't see the point of doing a "walkaround" photo essay on an inaccurate replica, but whatever.

The cockpit photo I posted is a wartime one from an IAR serving with Grupul 9 Vanatoare, not one of the replicas.
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« Reply #23 on: March 29, 2007, 03:21:52 PM »
Replica cockpit.



Basically a cardboard mockup.

And unless its been changed since you saw it, the spinner and prop are definitely wrong. Spinner way too small and prop turns the wrong way.



Now THIS one I like... (except for the cockpit)


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« Reply #24 on: March 29, 2007, 03:26:32 PM »
wasnt the one in bucherest made up using parts that were dug up and found years after they were buried and other parts fabracated to be similar?

  That was the story i heard  maybe its just rumor
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« Reply #25 on: March 29, 2007, 03:28:36 PM »
Rumor, I used to have photos of them building it on one of my old computers. Haven't been able to track them down again. Was all sheet metal and wood, built on jigs and sawhorses.

A lot of love and ingenuity went into it, but they were limited in what they had to work with and funds.
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« Reply #26 on: March 29, 2007, 03:33:29 PM »
Here  is about the best English language resource you are gonna find for the IAR 80/81 series on the web.
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« Reply #27 on: March 30, 2007, 11:26:05 AM »
few more pics:






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« Reply #28 on: March 30, 2007, 12:14:32 PM »
Here is a little vintage movie clip about Iar-80/81

http://www.worldwar2.ro/media/?article=364

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« Reply #29 on: March 30, 2007, 12:32:41 PM »
Seeing those pictures makes me think of the FW-190, alot of similarities!
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