To TD Team: A simple plane request - Il2-type 3 Late
 

AS Team Daidalos is bringing us new planes - I've always missed Il-2 type 3 with full metal wings and fuselage parts. The version we have is from the year 1943 with wooden wings and fuselage parts. I think it would be easy to add all metal wings and fuselage for Il-2 type 3 that were very common from autumn 1944 onwards. I think that Il-2 deserves a bit more attention as it was one of the most important (if not the most important) aircraft in VVS inventory and the sim is named after it :) Anyway, thanks for any consideration.

I didn't know that such a plan existed. I thought the Type 3 was sort of the end of development while the IL-8 and 10 were developed with the 10 ultimately seeing production.

I had always thought that had completely switched from metal to wooden extremities by late '43 due to aluminum shortages...

According to many sources and recent books, actually all Il2 were simply called just that: Il2, from the early straight wing, single-seat to the late war “strelkoy” (“arrow”) with swept back wooden or metal wing. All suffixes (Il2M, Il2M3, Il2 typ 3) are apparently spurious.

What I'd like to see is airframe damage as a result of prolonged firing of the AT cannons on the 3M (apparently, no burst could exceed a few seconds without risking the aircrafts structure).

Even the description in the game's encyclopedia states that Il2s of type 3 got their metal wings and fuselage parts back.


Yep, one such example of a full metal Il2-type 3 of late 1944 production can be even seen in Kbely air museum in Prague:

http://home.arcor.de/f111raven/011_10c.jpg