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Title: Photographs of Battle-Damaged IL-2's Post by: learstang on January 06, 2011, 07:02:48 PM In case anyone doubted that the Shturmovik was a tough plane (the Germans are said to have called it the "Betonflugzeug", or "Concrete Plane", supposedly because of its toughness), here is a photo, with more to follow.
Regards, Jason (http://i768.photobucket.com/albums/xx323/Learstang/IL-2-2-SeaterwithSevereWingDamage2.jpg) Title: Re: Photographs of Battle-Damaged IL-2's Post by: learstang on January 06, 2011, 07:09:02 PM Here's another.
Regards, Jason (http://i768.photobucket.com/albums/xx323/Learstang/IL-2withSevereDamagetotheWingroot.jpg) Title: Re: Photographs of Battle-Damaged IL-2's Post by: learstang on January 06, 2011, 07:13:53 PM And still another - I think you get the picture. The Il-2 was one tough bird.
Regards, Jason (http://i768.photobucket.com/albums/xx323/Learstang/SeverelyDamagedWing.jpg) Title: Re: Photographs of Battle-Damaged IL-2's Post by: Massimo Tessitori on January 06, 2011, 10:46:08 PM Hi Jason,
all metal wings, am I right? Regards Massimo Title: Re: Photographs of Battle-Damaged IL-2's Post by: learstang on January 07, 2011, 01:07:00 AM Hi Jason, all metal wings, am I right? Regards Massimo That's correct, Massimo. You can see why Sergei Ilyushin wanted the IL-2 to return to metal wings so much; they were immensely strong. He never did want the wooden wings - that was forced upon him by the lack of aluminium, and by the middle of 1944, the IL-2's were once again being produced with metal wings upon Ilyushin's insistence. However, the wooden wing could also take quite a bit of damage, as you can see in the photographs below. Regards, Jason (http://i768.photobucket.com/albums/xx323/Learstang/IL-2-BadlyDamagedWoodenWing.jpg) (http://i768.photobucket.com/albums/xx323/Learstang/SeverelyDamagedWoodenWing.jpg) (http://i768.photobucket.com/albums/xx323/Learstang/BadlyDamagedWoodenWingtip-1.jpg) Title: Re: Photographs of Battle-Damaged IL-2's Post by: FPSOlkor on January 08, 2011, 04:08:30 PM http://www.sukhoi.ru/forum/showthread.php?t=48060&daysprune=365
Title: Re: Photographs of Battle-Damaged IL-2's Post by: learstang on January 08, 2011, 06:33:51 PM Thank you for the link, FPSOlkor! Great pictures - some I haven't seen before.
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