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Rakinroll, what do you mean? A VVS pilot, even a decorated Hero of the Soviet Union, gives critics to Russian designs and that should be neglected? How about an aircraft mechanic one of squad member knew..this guy had been an IL-2 mechanic during war and said the engine on it was crap. After a few flights it was a heap of scrap and needed to be changed. But usually the plane was just put aside as at that point production kept up more than enough with losses etc.
Memoirs can be used to supplement other data, not as factual data. Can be quite interesting at times to see how they differ or match. There are not many Russian pilot memoirs translated floating around, so very interesting to read them.
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08-06-2010, 05:04 AM
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