Interview with fighter pilot who made a ramm

[FPSOlkor]

in 1944. Seemes very interesting to me...
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http://mig3.sovietwarplanes.com/pilots/nasilevec/nasilevec.htm

[Viking]

Exciting and somewhat sad to read about the hardship many people had to live thru at that time.
Give the hero a 100 gram from us all next time you see him and please keep posting.

Regards
Viking

[Bobb4]

Brilliant read, we fly , I16's, Yaks and La 5's mostly in our virtual squadron and to read this was awe inspiring.

[yogy]

Very interesting, thanks!
— You were in a regiment, which was equipped with La-5s or La-5FNs?

La-5FN appeared only by the end of war.
and one question to this:
— Your La-5 had a gargrot, or you canopy was already droplet-like?

With gargrot…
==> What is a gargrot? Does it mean the tail is shaped like original LaGG-3?

[FPSOlkor]

Gargrot is a fuselage section that lies behind canopy, and actually is a part of the fuselage that obscures view to the rear. Me-109 had a gargrot, while La-7 did not.

[TheGrunch]

This was a really good read, thanks for posting!

[Avimimus]

I dearly love this series.

Not only do I learn a lot about the GPW, but I've also learned a lot about the realities, attitudes and experiences of people living in the prewar.

Does anyone know of equivalent one's for the west? There are a few biographies/auto-biographies and a few detail "journalist" after-action-reports - but I haven't seen anything with such standardisation or detail.

Compared to reports from the war or from autobiographies, cross-generation interviews tend to do a much better job of capturing elements of history that are simply assumed as self-explanatory by the older people but which youngsters are ignorant of.

Anyway, it is a great service.

[ytareh]

Brilliant ,maybe the best one yet...

[Fltlt_HardBall]

Great story! Interesting what he said about Yaks not being able to fly inverted. I don't think this is modeled in IL-2, is it?

[Avimimus]

It never stopped me - but then I don't tend to fly Yaks - so maybe it is modelled?

[FPSOlkor]

Great story! Interesting what he said about Yaks not being able to fly inverted. I don't think this is modeled in IL-2, is it?

They could, but not in sustained flight. For a short period of time, IIRC 1 minute.