I see a very nice one flying every weekend which has good wheather around Mannheim and south of it.

It´s D-EPRN stationed in Mannheim Neuostheim, owend by Flugwerk Mannheim.

see here:
http://www.flugwerk-mannheim.de/

the also fly a tigermoth, Yak an other beauties

Sternjaeger you almost caused me to spit my coffee out with that… LOL


JD
AKA_MattE

lol well yeah, in both cases you know it's gonna fail ;)

Can't help loving thos little buggers! In IL2 they are a hassle to fly, but a joy when you manage to shoot something down with them!

Eh?
"single-piston Soviet monoplane fighter-30s-16s"

that's correct, there's probably just one piston working correctly in that thing :mrgreen:

lmao

Well for me challenging IS fun :). On spins - I think that it will spin readily, though recovery might be iffy... BTW Ash-62 is still produced in Poland, AFAIK.

when it's so challenging it can easily kill you I'd rather pass, there's no "Esc" button in the I-16 cockpit ;)

surely an interesting machine that keeps you on your toes, but definitely a case of mother's love, I'd rather be in a 109 to be honest ;)

The torque issues are evident at low speeds, the I-16 was built with the same mentality of Mosin-Nagant rifles: as cheap as possible, assembled with little care for finishing, but still capable of doing the job.

As for the engines yes, it's produced in Poland ASz-62, but it's more expensive than a cheap Chinese version, which comes at a very low price and with a "Russian Roulette" feature in it :mrgreen: