Interview with HSU. As usual- comments and questions welcome

[FPSOlkor]

Sorry for missing photos, will be awailable ASAP. Next one about Korea.

[LEXX]

Korea and Beyond!

Alot of these fellas flew for PVO after the war. FPS, I never did make up alot of good questions for that MiG-19P pilot, but I thought of two or three. I should have thought more about that. Any Yak-25 crewmembers out there?

[FPSOlkor]

Kulakov was the one - but he passed away last year...

[LEXX]

Sad to hear that. As with others, there will be fewer and fewer as the years go by. I found this...


849 [IAP] PVO. Air base [Kupino]: MiG-17, Su-9, MiG-23[ML]
History and personal recollections about the [kupinskom] air regiment.

~> http://www.strizhi.ru/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=kupino

Best for me, the entire forum is translatable in Babelfish, with the translate webpage option.

[FPSOlkor]

I'm translating now an interview with KW 9 kill ace Zabelin, but 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.

Try "fishing" here
http://www.airforce.ru/history/moder...eyka/index.htm
http://www.airforce.ru/history/moder...viap/index.htm
http://www.airforce.ru/history/moder...khin/index.htm
http://www.airforce.ru/awm/afganistan/afganistan1.htm
http://www.airforce.ru/history/cuba/index.htm
http://www.airforce.ru/history/korea/index.htm
http://www.airforce.ru/history/modern/840bap/index.htm
http://www.airforce.ru/history/savasleika/index.htm

[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?