Interview with fighter pilot who made a ramm

FPSOlkor · #1 07-15-2010, 06:10 PM

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

Viking · #2 07-15-2010, 07:40 PM

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 · #3 07-16-2010, 07:57 AM

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

yogy · #4 07-16-2010, 11:07 AM

Very interesting, thanks!

Quote:

— 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:

Quote:

— 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 · #5 07-16-2010, 05:12 PM

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 · #6 07-17-2010, 06:18 PM

This was a really good read, thanks for posting!

Avimimus · #7 07-17-2010, 06:27 PM

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 · #8 07-18-2010, 04:16 PM

Brilliant ,maybe the best one yet...

Fltlt_HardBall · #9 07-21-2010, 01:21 AM

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 · #10 07-21-2010, 03:42 AM

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