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Afternoon all, my latestkarpov 1-16 fill build is the Polikarpov 1 -`16
A check on the history bring some interesting facts.
Built at State Aircraft Factory No. 39 near Moscow was in fact a Soviet prison. Not only was the plane the product of convict labor, even more remarkable, the two inmates who designed it were among the nation's most talented aeronautical engineers. One was Dmitri Grigorovich, creator of the flying boats that had served the Czar's Navy in World War I. The other was Nikolai Polikarpov.
Both has fallen from favor with the mad man Stalin during one of his many purges in 1929.
Polikarpov and his design team were sentenced to an "internal prison," there to continue their work under the close supervision and scrutiny of the state. Evidently, his prosecutors judged him too vital to the future of Soviet military prowess to inflict the usual penalties of summary execution or slow death in a labor camp !
The first flight of the I-16 was on December 31, 1933, and it was far ahead of any fighter design at the time. It featured retractable landing gear, a cantilever wing, enclosed cockpit and variable pitch propeller. While wire bracing and struts were eliminated by other countries in stages, advanced planes of this type were being developed in Russia as early as 1932. Although not among the best remembered aircraft of the 1930s, it was nevertheless a very able and rugged machine and featured.
A highly movable plane perhaps best known for its steel propellers which the pilots were told to hit the rear of German bombers, and then bale out. It was no match for the Messerschmitt Bf 109.
The Soviets have longed been accused of being copyists by the west, but this time they were years ahead.
Many of you might remember this from the "other house "
Look very muck akin to the later version with out those top wings.
Box .
A very simple kit, a little flash .
Didn't take long before I was at this stage.
The wheel supports were properly the most fiddly, but mamagable.
I've not put the pilot in as want to have some of the radial engine on show with a cowling off as in the last photo
A bit of filler, trying the new Vallejo, , don't know what color to do yer, maybe the light blue underside and good old 4 BO.
Comments welcome.
John.
A check on the history bring some interesting facts.
Built at State Aircraft Factory No. 39 near Moscow was in fact a Soviet prison. Not only was the plane the product of convict labor, even more remarkable, the two inmates who designed it were among the nation's most talented aeronautical engineers. One was Dmitri Grigorovich, creator of the flying boats that had served the Czar's Navy in World War I. The other was Nikolai Polikarpov.
Both has fallen from favor with the mad man Stalin during one of his many purges in 1929.
Polikarpov and his design team were sentenced to an "internal prison," there to continue their work under the close supervision and scrutiny of the state. Evidently, his prosecutors judged him too vital to the future of Soviet military prowess to inflict the usual penalties of summary execution or slow death in a labor camp !
The first flight of the I-16 was on December 31, 1933, and it was far ahead of any fighter design at the time. It featured retractable landing gear, a cantilever wing, enclosed cockpit and variable pitch propeller. While wire bracing and struts were eliminated by other countries in stages, advanced planes of this type were being developed in Russia as early as 1932. Although not among the best remembered aircraft of the 1930s, it was nevertheless a very able and rugged machine and featured.
A highly movable plane perhaps best known for its steel propellers which the pilots were told to hit the rear of German bombers, and then bale out. It was no match for the Messerschmitt Bf 109.
The Soviets have longed been accused of being copyists by the west, but this time they were years ahead.
Many of you might remember this from the "other house "
Look very muck akin to the later version with out those top wings.
Box .
A very simple kit, a little flash .
Didn't take long before I was at this stage.
The wheel supports were properly the most fiddly, but mamagable.
I've not put the pilot in as want to have some of the radial engine on show with a cowling off as in the last photo
A bit of filler, trying the new Vallejo, , don't know what color to do yer, maybe the light blue underside and good old 4 BO.
Comments welcome.
John.
luss I keep the clean one for cutting in only .