Hello friends!
I bought the fana and the paper is really great!
I propose you to digitize the paper and his traduction with google traductor. If something is not understandable, I will try to translate it with my fantastic english
here the first part of the paper (it's quite long to correct the OCR!)
well, let's go on:
in google English:
The restoration of the only surviving Polikarpov I-153
The truth under the paintingThe Museum of Air and Space (MFA) Bourget told the Memorial-Flight restoration of the original single-153 Polikarpov left in the world.
This plane belongs to the museum halves the early 1950s. Road restoration of this type has a long mandatory preliminary investigative work, like that which was done with the Heinkel 162 (see Le Fana de l'Aviation No. 480).
We knew that this was taking 1-153 German war moved to Nanterre for reasons that remain to be discovered. Luckily he seemed to com-plete. Only the color green was above pects. It could have been applied previously to the museum, which suggested that below were the original colors.
During a first visit in February, it was found that the paint began to flake off because of the humidity in the shed that houses metal and textile aircraft of the Second World War, she left the show in wings a painted canvas or coated aluminum and green at the top of the vertical stabilizer, a different shade of green bottle whose aircraft is currently covered.
After removing the wings on March 5, 1-153 arrived in the workshop at Memorial Flight Dugny few days later. First priority: remove the four machine guns SchkAS to return to where they are stored MAE.
To access them, dismantling many covers removable metal was needed, which did appear several four-digit numbers painted in red on the inside of these plates and other stamped on the metal.
However, in the fuselage, the same issue was identified nine times on several pieces, the 7277 ...
Thanks to various articles published in Russia and in France by Mikhail Maslov, it is certain that the numbers belonged to the construction of F153 series 6000.7000, 8000 and 9000. However, it was clear that 1-153 was assembled with parts from several planes.
Governments, for example, all come from different devices, the wings will be scrutinized later.
The study then showed that the fabric covering the greater part of the canvas sides of the fuselage is of Soviet origin, but German: it was tense with a typical red coat and stitched on the original features , leaving tails intact large enough canvas Soviet - the complexity of the lacing of the interlining of origin may be frightened German reparations when they attempted to repair it.
Thus, the back and bottom of the device are still provided with their original canvas covered with a coating of aluminum color. Before 1941, "Chaika" were delivered gray aluminum. The painting received five layers of transparent coating of tension, then a final layer of coating pigmented with aluminum paint or IIA Al Aluminiovyi complemented the stabilizer. Covers and other metal parts were painted outdoors in bright gray-beige AE-9 while the metal parts inside the unit were covered with bright blue-gray paint (maybe A-14).
Apart from the fuselage, empennage elements have their original canvas. However, windows were roughly cut by the Germans on most fabric-covered items, probably to inspect the structure. They were closed with patches which also served to hide the different addicts to give a good look at I-153. Under these patches, there is therefore also the original color, not degraded. The fabric element of the tail was also covered with aluminum color, with the exception of the rudder. It was already hidden by green paint cellulose, Russian, Garlic zashchitnyl.
Once "fixed", the aircraft was painted entirely in green RLM 62 to TException lower surfaces. Strange, because the aircraft had large parts of its original coating. The repairmen had they not in their immediate possession of aluminum paint, or did they make up for that mission the unit to make it look new?
However, it must be remembered that the rudder was green, and wore the identification number 9 (see below). We also know that the rudder was not painted by the Germans, and it is possible that they have repainted the plane to standardize its appearance. They are the ones who painted new Soviet star.
The I-153 was then recovered by the Air Museum in circumstances unknown to us, it surely is when the aircraft was painted green on top and blue underneath. Identification marks were also covered. Two photographs taken between 1954 and 1962, Chalais-Meudon where was then the museum show that the fabric of the fuselage was cut again and again repaired. These patches of canvas French are recognizable by their transparent coating of tension, not red, and strips of cloth on their serrated edges.