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Il-2 Sturmovik flys again

  • 10-10-2011 10:14pm
    #1
    westdub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 690 ✭✭✭


    Another rare warbird has taken to the skys.....:D

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    http://youtu.be/jphYnNJQAnw


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  • #2
    BlaasForRafa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,020 ✭✭✭BlaasForRafa


    Great stuff. Now that rebuilt and newbuild FW190s have started to take to the skies recently perhaps some Wurger vs Zementbomber airshow action would be in order? :D


  • #3
    Stovepipe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,984 ✭✭✭Stovepipe


    Excellent! What's the Russian for "brick ****house"? Perhaps they could knock up a few more and sell them to the Air Corps;)

    regards
    Stovepipe


  • #4
    Tony EH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,657 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    Nice to see they used the correct camouflage too.

    Surprising there's not more of these in flying condition, considering they were the most numerous aircraft of the war.


  • #5
    ReacherCreature
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,500 ✭✭✭ReacherCreature


    Tony EH wrote: »
    Nice to see they used the correct camouflage too.

    Surprising there's not more of these in flying condition, considering they were the most numerous aircraft of the war.

    I guess with the remaining Il-2s, they were pushed into airforces in the post-war expansion of the Soviet Union. As well as that, the rise of the jet age deemed them insignificant. Pressing econmic issues probably had something to do with the lack of resoration and the like. Sad, but good to see the bird fly again!

    *all the above paragraph could be negated if Russia goes to war and breaks out hundreds of Shturmoviks to roam over the enemy!


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