I-16 Type 24 Engine Difficulties

[Robotic Pope]

Originally Posted by Hicks-81

I don´t consider the I-16 bad, just obsolet. It is a plane of 1935. Is logical to be less than the Spitfre and Messerschmitt.

You only advantage is a close turn rate, but a good pilot never fight it in that style. With speed you can leave behind when you are in bad position

+1.
As a first generation cantilever monoplane, the designers were really experimenting so it was bound to have some tricky handling characteristics. Lessons learned that went into making the Yaks and La's great. And the I-16 did ok against the early bf109b-1 in the spanish civil war.

Redtiger02, have you tried flying the I-16 on sim with full elevator sensitivity?
How is that for difficult to control?

[Hicks-81]

Originally Posted by Robotic Pope

And the I-16 did ok against the early bf109b-1 in the spanish civil war.

Yes. The I-16 was the best fighter in the Spanish Civil War until the arrival of the Bf-109B of the Legion Condor

[MATALIEBRES]

por supuesto sino que se lo digan a mi abuelo en el frente del Jarama un abrazo compañero

[Hicks-81]

Originally Posted by MATALIEBRES

por supuesto sino que se lo digan a mi abuelo en el frente del Jarama un abrazo compañero

¿Tu abuelo fue piloto en la guerra civil?

Your grandfather was a pilot in the war? (traducido por respeto a los compañero que no hablan español)

[MATALIEBRES]

Originally Posted by Hicks-81

¿Tu abuelo fue piloto en la guerra civil?

Your grandfather was a pilot in the war? (traducido por respeto a los compañero que no hablan español)

sorry for writing in my mother tongue and an apology to all those who knew no Spanish is that I came from the heart ..
and if my grandfather was in the civil war as a pilot in the national side but unfortunately I have many memories of him as he died when I was very small.
accept my apology hug and see you in heaven tonight .. perhaps
Forgive my bad English friends