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Offline Brooke

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Re: The worlds only flying IL-2 Sturmi survivor
« Reply #15 on: October 10, 2011, 04:45:40 PM »
Quote from: titanic3 on October 10, 2011, 09:33:09 AM
Most built plane of WW2, I'm not surprised, despite all the chaos of post war - Cold War Russia.

You'd think that if there were thousands or tens of thousands of a particular aircraft, there would be flyable versions around.  But that often isn't the case.  Even for the B-24, 18,000 produced (more than the B-17) -- one flyable version left in the world (that was a real B-24 at the start of its life).  Typhoon, 3300 produced -- only one aircraft left in the world (nonflyable).  Bf 110, 15,000 produced -- no flyable versions left (as far as I could find in a search).  Flyable versions of things are very rare -- even moreso for something like an Il-2.
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Re: The worlds only flying IL-2 Sturmi survivor
« Reply #16 on: October 10, 2011, 04:47:28 PM »
Quote from: TwinBoom on October 10, 2011, 03:34:56 PM
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Re: The worlds only flying IL-2 Sturmi survivor
« Reply #17 on: October 10, 2011, 05:24:40 PM »
Outstanding! Really cool to see one of them flying about!
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Re: The worlds only flying IL-2 Sturmi survivor
« Reply #18 on: October 10, 2011, 05:44:35 PM »
Quote from: SunBat on October 10, 2011, 04:47:28 PM
I've hit my friend quota for the next five years. I figured I'd come here and see if I could lose some.

lmfao you know DrBone?
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Re: The worlds only flying IL-2 Sturmi survivor
« Reply #19 on: October 10, 2011, 06:48:26 PM »
Quote from: TwinBoom on October 10, 2011, 03:34:56 PM
Arent you supposed to be logged into E-Harmony looking for friends?

He's met his friends quota for the day. ;)

Nice post Dan!  :aok
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Re: The worlds only flying IL-2 Sturmi survivor
« Reply #20 on: October 10, 2011, 08:24:21 PM »
Is it an original engine?
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Re: The worlds only flying IL-2 Sturmi survivor
« Reply #21 on: October 31, 2011, 09:34:23 PM »
The Channel 1 clip is too fast for me; I only get every fifth word when I'm lucky.  I'm trying to convince SWMBO to transcribe it for me...not sure how successful that will be.

Very, very cool.  I have pics of the static display in Samara, but to see one fly...
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