Massimo Tessitori
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« on: March 21, 2022, 10:17:36 AM » |
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Hi all, I'm working on a wide update of the MiG-3 page that is showing its age. I'll remove a lot of obsolete pages and I'm making new profiles. I've not updated the online page for now. I am considering to remove the wide galleries of profiles and make new pages where the profiles are collected by themes; for now, I've made a page on 12 GvIAP in March 1942 and 148 IAP in May 1942.
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« Reply #1 on: March 30, 2022, 10:32:28 AM » |
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Hi all, does anyone know any interesting link to pages, movies and photos of 401 IAP? I already know the page on ava.org.ru, I would add something the the new page on MiG-3 on which I am working on.
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Massimo Tessitori
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« Reply #3 on: April 05, 2022, 06:07:15 AM » |
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Thank you very much Daniele, the article is very good and of help to add some historical background to the profiles. Regards Massimo
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Massimo Tessitori
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« Reply #4 on: April 08, 2022, 02:41:59 PM » |
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Hi all, I am working to collect some photos of typical MiG-3s of the mid 1941 as examples of prewar planes. Now I am a bit confused about the planes found of the airport of Siaulai, Lithuania, in late June 1941 and captured by Germans. Barbarossa victims, of T.J. Kopansky, attributes them to 31 IAP and states that 15 IAP was on the Alytus airfield and equipped with I-153s; Mr. Timin states that they were of 15 IAP, http://ava.org.ru/iap/15.htm and his work is recent and seems reliable; Ava.org.ru states that 31 IAP had nothing to do with Kaunas. http://ava.org.ru/iap/31.htmSo, should the information of 'Barbarossa victims' simply be ignored, or there is some other thing that I am missing on this? Regards Massimo
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« Reply #5 on: April 08, 2023, 09:09:59 AM » |
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Massimo Tessitori
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« Reply #6 on: April 09, 2023, 07:10:56 PM » |
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Hi, excellent photo, I received it some days ago from Tora, I have 3 further ones from before but this is the best one. Are you sure that it is of 124 IAP? I think that it is from 7 IAP because it is nearly identical to plane 04, with the same disposition of stars and points in common with the camo pattern, and resemble to plane 67 of the same unit. Pity that the number on the fuselage isn't fully readable, it could have been 40 or 46 or 48.
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« Reply #7 on: May 01, 2023, 09:34:15 PM » |
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sorry my late answer. I'm not 100% sure, but a member of the forum said Кикерино (Kikerino) the home airdrome of the 124 iap.
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« Reply #10 on: June 06, 2023, 03:52:53 PM » |
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New content looks amazing. Mig-3 research is what brought me to this website in the first place years ago, so it will be a pleasure to re-read everything!
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Massimo Tessitori
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« Reply #11 on: June 07, 2023, 06:35:56 AM » |
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Thank you. In the first years, the MiG-3 had given the name to the whole site.
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warhawk
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« Reply #12 on: June 15, 2023, 04:55:12 PM » |
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Regarding the Vnukovo 'red 02' wing color (s). Something seems weird to me with just one wing being a green replacement usually both would be replaced to avoid different wing stress due to different component age)
If the rear-three-quarter photo does indeed show 'red 02', this might be before the wing-swap (i.e. not necessarily taken at the same time as the more fmous group photo), so both outer wings could very well be white at that particular moment.
Regards, Aleksandar
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« Last Edit: June 15, 2023, 10:13:22 PM by warhawk »
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Massimo Tessitori
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« Reply #13 on: June 16, 2023, 07:07:17 AM » |
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Hi, I agree that any theory is equally acceptable. The plane could have had both wings coloured for some time, or one only. The color could have been green or red; if it was red, it lasted for one or two days only, just for the ceremony. If it was green, it could have been a visual distinctive for a commander plane. The highly reflective surface suggests more red than green, but glossy green is always possible. I am not sure that the wings were from another plane, because wings without flaps were installed on production planes with the new nose for some time around July or August 1941, associated with early type tail wheel doors that, on this plane, were removed. By sure, if one wing was without slats, the other one had to be the same. Regards Massimo
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« Reply #14 on: June 17, 2023, 10:15:15 AM » |
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Cool profiles! Ave Massimo the Great! ))
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