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General Forums => Aircraft and Vehicles => Topic started by: whgates3 on November 25, 2002, 12:18:52 AM

Title: ID the A/C 2603
Post by: whgates3 on November 25, 2002, 12:18:52 AM

...the one on the right...

Title: ID the A/C 2603
Post by: udet on November 26, 2002, 07:19:10 PM

Dewiotine D. 500 without the wheel fairings?

Title: ID the A/C 2603
Post by: udet on November 26, 2002, 07:28:25 PM

neah, I was totally mistaken. The landing gear is completely different.

Title: ID the A/C 2603
Post by: whgates3 on November 26, 2002, 07:43:21 PM

thats the wrong gear on that airframe - just for display purposes.
here is a pic from when it was in action

Title: Answer
Post by: cup on November 26, 2002, 10:23:08 PM

It is a Polikarpov 1-17, not many were used during the war, it carried a 20mm and 2 mgs, and was powered by Klimov M.100 860 hp 12 cylinder.  Top speed was 305 mph.

:D

Title: ID the A/C 2603
Post by: Lizard3 on November 26, 2002, 11:24:54 PM

Yeah, but what the hell is that behemoth in the back ground?

Title: ID the A/C 2603
Post by: whgates3 on November 26, 2002, 11:34:23 PM

Da, comrade - - i was reading about it last night and apparently when it was introduced the VVS considered it unneccesarily fast and as a result, not a good dogfighter - some were used in the early years of the war, but not after 1941 - possibly against the Finns? did the Estonians, Latvians or Lithuanians put up a fight?

the big guy is the Sukhoi ANT-25RD that was used for a flight over the pole to Vancouver in 1937 (not much of a challenge, as Woczek Yerelzelski was quite young back then)