Author Topic: you know that ratta rat I16 soviet bumble bee: 20mm cannons! turns like mad!!!!!! (Read 1512 times)

R4M · « **Reply #15 on:** October 20, 2001, 07:00:00 AM »

One of the most ugly planes I've ever seen. Can't understand that someone likes this little ugly thing

BTW a I-16 324mph at SL?. I'll believe it when I see an official speed chart of it.

Ghosth · « **Reply #16 on:** October 20, 2001, 08:52:00 AM »

Ohhh bring this little girl to AH PLEASE!

Talk about a plane with an attitude.

DanielMcIntyre · « **Reply #17 on:** October 20, 2001, 09:39:00 AM »

ehh duty fighter by the germans. That say's it all.

God don't bring that abomination to AH!!!!

Daff · « **Reply #18 on:** October 20, 2001, 04:22:00 PM »

Very few Rata's had 20mm cannons.

Daff

Citabria · « **Reply #19 on:** October 20, 2001, 04:28:00 PM »

very few spitfires battled p51s

who cares?

Karnak · « **Reply #20 on:** October 22, 2001, 02:08:00 AM »

Daff,

As far as I can tell, no Rata's had cannon.

However, quite a few Ishak's did have cannon.

Fester is asking for an Ishak, not a Rata.

Polikarpov I-16 Type 24 "Ishak"
Powerplant:one Shvetsov M-62 nine-cylinder radial air-cooled engine rated at 1,000hp
Performance: maximum speed 273mph at sea level; 304mph at 10,000ft; range of 373 miles, 600 miles with external fuel tanks
Armament: four 7.62mm Shpital 'ny-komaritsky ShKAS machine-guns (two synchronised in fuselage and two unsynchronised in wings) with 650rpg, or two fuselage mounted ShKAS and two wing mounted 20mm Shpital 'ny-Vladimirov ShVAK cannon with 180rpg; a single 12.7mm Berezin UB machine-gun with 300 rounds could be added to the fuselage mounted armament and with which the wing-mounted armament was usually deleted

Voss · « **Reply #21 on:** October 22, 2001, 02:37:00 AM »

I liked the history of this plane so much I once built an R/C model of it in giant scale. Very few people recognized it, but that aside it was a great airplane. The only bad characterstic that I remember is landing it deadstick. If you flare then you're going to flip (snap). At least that was true for the model.

Very short nose moment on this plane and that is what leads to over-control from novices.

mrsid2 · « **Reply #22 on:** October 22, 2001, 04:06:00 AM »

If I remember correctly, the I-16 had another serious control problem.. In addition to its extremely sensitive controls, the main gun trigger was so stiff that it seriously hindered the soviet pilots aim. They couldn't avoid bouncing the nose a little when trying to shoot, which saved the lives of many opponents.

They should take this into notice also if they bring the plane to AH.. =)

gatt · « **Reply #23 on:** October 22, 2001, 07:39:00 AM »

Would be a very nice addition to our planeset, but then again: AcesHigh is not going towards an early war plane set, at least not in some months, rather in years.

Arlo · « **Reply #24 on:** October 22, 2001, 07:20:00 PM »

I'm for more than just an "early war" planeset. I'm for a Spanish Civil War era planeset and terrain. That being the case ... the MOSCA is the choice. But then again ... an SCW arena needs super-bipes like the Chirri and the Chato.

I've been campaigning for such an online arena and planeset (in any sim) for quite sometime now.

Fariz · « **Reply #25 on:** October 22, 2001, 07:47:00 PM »

I agree that AH need early and mid war plane set.

If HTC only could add 1 early war model for every 3 late one we could have lot of them already.

My hope is that soon we will get short of powerful late war planes, and more early war planes/variants will do in in to AH.

Fariz