This series of 4 articles from the now-vanished "Brushfire Wars" site from 2002 can be found again, starting with Part I, here:
http://web.archive.org/web/20080112091951/www.brushfirewars.org/aircraft/polikarpov_i-16/polikarpov_i-16_1.htmNote:
(1) VERY slow downloads
(2) Image links do not work
(3) Some images (like all of the ones in Part 3) are "red X"
(4) I tried to save part 1 as a Word file (it's worked before on other web pages) but for some reason, it didn't work. Still experimenting with that one, when I get time...
Here's the Web Archive "Wayback Machine" site - I wonder if this could be used to access the vanished forum files from the VVS hobbyvista site, or airwarfareforum? Again, more time needed to experiment:
http://web.archive.org/collections/web.htmlJohn