Author Topic: Interview W/ Soviet Ace: A "Must Read" for AH Plane Designers & Pilots (Read 432 times)

MRPLUTO · « **on:** January 17, 2003, 09:25:41 AM »

A good friend (bobm from WarBirds) sent me this link:

http://airforce.users.ru/lend-lease/english/articles/golodnikov/index.htm

Very useful comments on the Polikarpov I-16, Hurricane, P-40, and P-39 versus the Luftwaffe and ground targets.

I hope we'll be able to fly the I-16 and P-39 within the next year in AH.

MRPLUTO VMF-323 ~Death Rattlers~ MAG-33

maxtor · « **Reply #1 on:** January 17, 2003, 09:46:24 AM »

This is a really great interview of a IL2 pilot

http://www.iremember.ru/pilots/khukhrikov/khukhrikov.html

Pongo · « **Reply #2 on:** January 17, 2003, 11:02:07 AM »

That is an excellent interview.

maxtor · « **Reply #3 on:** January 17, 2003, 12:54:22 PM »

I found this excerpt somewhat damning when I think of some previous debates regarding german planes:

"A. S. Nikolay Gerasimovich, sometime relatively long ago I was speaking with a pilot—a frontline veteran. Right after the war they flew in captured aircraft. And no matter how hard they tried, they were unable to attain the speeds the Germans had written in their specifications. The shortfall in speed was significant. In the end, they prevailed upon a German, a high-level specialist, and asked him, “Why this shortfall in speed? Are we using the engine’s capability incorrectly?” His response was that they would never achieve the target speed, because the German specifications showed the theoretical speed, and they were attempting to attain that speed on their instruments."

Now I wonder about those charts - I had assumed German data to be accurate now I am not so sure.

ccvi · « **Reply #4 on:** January 17, 2003, 01:16:21 PM »

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Originally posted by maxtor
I found this excerpt somewhat damning when I think of some previous debates regarding german planes:

"... a high-level specialist, and asked him... the theoretical speed, and they were attempting to attain that speed on their instruments."[/B]

IAS vs. TAS?

MRPLUTO · « **Reply #5 on:** January 17, 2003, 04:49:41 PM »

I thought it was the P-39, not the P-40, that the Russians took out the wing-mounted 50s, leaving just the cannon & two nose guns.

MRPLUTO

dtango · « **Reply #6 on:** January 17, 2003, 05:08:37 PM »

ccvi:

Probably more like differences in drag due to the compressibility of air.

Tango, XO
412th FS Braunco Mustangs

MOSQ · « **Reply #7 on:** January 17, 2003, 08:01:09 PM »

Bring the P-39 and P-63 to Aces High !