WooHoo! The I-16!

[Enker]

Looking at the photos too.. The rudder is the size of a barndoor, and ailerons are about 3/4 the length of the wings... Probably turn and stop on a dime.. Combined w engine torque, I'll bet it has a SCREAMIN rollrate... And overall the thing is TINY!!!   I can imagine shootin at one as it squirms and bounces all over the sky,
Holy smokes!!! LOL!!!

20/23mm cannon? OH YEAH!!!! With that, I might like it better than my Wildcat...

RC

After you do a roll, try a snap roll. All the way around in around a second (source: IL-2).

[Kazaa]

Heck no!  Horde buster

 

[1Duke1]

Waffle and Greebo...check ur PMs

[CHAPPY]

Nice addition to AH2.

[Kazaa]

Waffle,

Any chance of a cockpit shot, it would be very intresting to see what it's like from the inside out.

[eddiek]

Has anyone ever seen a real I-16?


The closest thing I seen would probably be an La5/7

I've stood next to the one at the air museum in Odessa/Midland.  I'm 6'2" and I was looking down into the cockpit just standing there beside it.  Tiny plane, I was amazed at how brave the Soviet pilots had to have been to get in one and go into combat.

[SoonerMP]

Looks like the I-16 will be fun to fly but.... I still can't stop admiring the new terrain!

[Motherland]

It may be small compared to some of our aircraft, but I don't think it will be THAT small... in fact, I think from a dead-six perspective it will probably be fairly large.

I-16 compared to a Bf 109F.

[BaDkaRmA158Th]

I guess i must remind you all that the il-16 were always short ranged front line fighters.

You will NEVER see these planes attacking each other from airfield to airfield.

The later more capable versions while having more guns and such, also have engines that use MORE fuel, it is in that sence the more ubber version of the il-16 will suffer from range more than the early versions.


Regardless, this will be a NOE buster upper, because the planes so small and light and decently armed it should prove able to knock some attackers off a town.

:Edit: and no, the tiny little drop tanks wont really matter that much when it comes to getting this planes butt to another airfield. Most 16's will find them selfs crash landing with no fuel long before they get shot down in alot of cases.

-Throws two cents-

[RATTFINK]

Can't wait to try out the RATT..

RC

EXCUSE ME????

[Karnak]

BaDkaRmA158Th,

No "L" in the name.  Just "I-16-x" where x is the version number.

[Motherland]

I guess i must remind you all that the il-16 were always short ranged front line fighters.

You will NEVER see these planes attacking each other from airfield to airfield.

The later more capable versions while having more guns and such, also have engines that use MORE fuel, it is in that sence the more ubber version of the il-16 will suffer from range more than the early versions.


Regardless, this will be a NOE buster upper, because the planes so small and light and decently armed it should prove able to knock some attackers off a town.

:Edit: and no, the tiny little drop tanks wont really matter that much when it comes to getting this planes butt to another airfield. Most 16's will find them selfs crash landing with no fuel long before they get shot down in alot of cases.

-Throws two cents-

It's range isn't THAT much shorter than the La-7 and the Spitfire, two of the most popular fighters in the game...

[moot]

20/23mm cannon? OH YEAH!!!! With that, I might like it better than my Wildcat...

RC

Totally different guns.. Look them up

[VansCrew1]

Is it going to carry rockets? I read on wiki it had 6 rockets or up to a 500kg bomb.

[zoozoo]