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Title: Planes in Leningrad museum just after the war Post by: Massimo Tessitori on February 11, 2015, 05:41:05 PM Hi,
here are some photos of the planes shown in the museum of Leningrad just after the war. http://deruluft.livejournal.com/59783.html (http://deruluft.livejournal.com/59783.html) Aside the famous La-5 with the sharkmouth and an already seen I-16, there are two Il-2s that I never saw before. The plane shown inside is a replica of the one of the plane of a famous pilot. I think it is made by joining pieces of two different planes. As Timoshenko wrote (sorry for the poor automatic translation), Quote 01.17.1944, the Guards. F.M.Pavlyuchenko captain was killed in the crash on the AE Kasimovo while returning from a mission. Regards Massimo Title: Re: Planes in Leningrad museum just after the war Post by: Tyronesdaddy on March 24, 2015, 03:49:49 PM So what happened to the aircraft in the museum? Were they destroyed in a fire or scrapped?
Title: Re: Planes in Leningrad museum just after the war Post by: Massimo Tessitori on March 24, 2015, 08:21:30 PM I suppose they were scrapped in the '50s.
Title: Re: Planes in Leningrad museum just after the war Post by: Tyronesdaddy on March 25, 2015, 04:06:33 PM What a horrible waste to scrap priceless artifacts like that.
Title: Re: Planes in Leningrad museum just after the war Post by: learstang on March 25, 2015, 05:03:13 PM It's especially a waste with the La-5 - there are no La-5 versions preserved anywhere in the world. I've seen the centre-section of a razorback La-5 that was being kept somewhere in Virginia, but that's it. The Finns also have a part of the fuselage of a LaGG-3, complete with well-preserved camouflage. The razorback La-5 at Pobeda (Victory) Park in Moscow is a replica, although not too bad a one. I also would have loved to see that field-modified Il-2 preserved. To think that the Soviets did not preserve a single Il-2 is amazing (the ones you see in Russia now are reconstructed wrecks).
Regards, Jason |