Interview with HSU. As usual- comments and questions welcome

[LEXX]

Thanks for the links.

FPS::

i did not ask him about after-war experience too much because i never actually was interested in "whistles" - they seem to be "soulless" to me.

Yea, the pilots' greatest life experience are from the war, but many continued to fly for far longer for some reason. Find out if some of the pilots saw a soul in the early jets. I've read an account by a Tu-128 pilot and he loved his aircraft to no end.

Both pilots and ground mechs saw ALOT of soul in at least one jet. Czech out the forums here...

F-106 forum ~> http://forum.f-106deltadart.com/


As for the planes, it was always higher, faster, further from Polikarpov's I-1 to MiG's -25, until the late 1960s or 1970s, when military aviation died, full stop, Ussian and Russian, Brit as well.

But I kinda agree to something: post-modern all digital SuperHUDjets seem soulless to me, and they all look the same, made by the post Cold War corporate merger of Grumman/MiG/McDonell Douglas/Sukhoi.

[FPSOlkor]

Originally Posted by LEXX

Yea, the pilots' greatest life experience are from the war, but many continued to fly for far longer for some reason. Find out if some of the pilots saw a soul in the early jets. I've read an account by a Tu-128 pilot and he loved his aircraft to no end.
Both pilots and ground mechs saw ALOT of soul in at least one jet. Czech out the forums here...
F-106 forum ~> http://forum.f-106deltadart.com/.

Perhaps, perhaps... As I'm a pilot myself I believe I have a right to have a personal oppinion? And it is - I love Yak-18t and Piper Cherokee, although the later one is a bit cramped to my taste. This is my dream plane, that I would trade my soul for:

But all Jets (including F-86 and MiG-15) to me are nothing more then just "whistles".

Originally Posted by LEXX

As for the planes, it was always higher, faster, further from Polikarpov's I-1 to MiG's -25, until the late 1960s or 1970s, when military aviation died, full stop, Ussian and Russian, Brit as well.

Well, this poster for military (which I'm not) pilots will never become obsolete

Originally Posted by LEXX

But I kinda agree to something: post-modern all digital SuperHUDjets seem soulless to me, and they all look the same, made by the post Cold War corporate merger of Grumman/MiG/McDonell Douglas/Sukhoi.

You mean like this one?

[LEXX]

Yikes, that Stalin pic is scary.


I was always fascinated by this, stars in the sky and all. What does the book title say below...something Moscow? The artwork is similar to book cover art here in Ussia back in the 1940s to 1950s.

[FPSOlkor]

Rockets (missiles?) around Moscow. This books SE was published in 2003, and it describes how Moscow PVO missiles were made

That Stalin pic says only: Forward to the new successes of soviet aviation! (Background full of parachutes makes me gues, are those enemies or VVS pilots?)

[FPSOlkor]

photos finally available!