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Mystery Plane...

PostPosted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 5:39 pm
by Wing Nut
And yes, I know what this one is.  Do you?  :D

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Re: Mystery Plane...

PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 1:56 am
by Jayhawk Jake
Don't know the name, but it's a russian rocket plane.  BT-19 or something like that

Re: Mystery Plane...

PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 1:58 am
by Lazerbeak
Bereznyak-Isayev BI-1. ;)

It would've been a sort of Soviet Me-163, but unlike the Komet, it never entered service (though a few production models were built before development was cancelled).

Re: Mystery Plane...

PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 7:04 am
by Wing Nut
Man, and I thought that was going to be a hard one...    :P

Do you know this page Lazerbeak?  :)

http://www.ctrl-c.liu.se/misc/ram/index.html

Re: Mystery Plane...

PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 7:53 pm
by Lazerbeak
Do you know this page Lazerbeak?  :)

http://www.ctrl-c.liu.se/misc/ram/index.html

Haven't seen it before, but thanks very much for this link! :D

I was looking for a website like this where I could learn about the most obscure (but often most interesting) of Russian aircraft. Normally I used Wikipedia, and while it is a great source of quick info, their shelves are a little bare when it comes to the rarer Russian planes...

Re: Mystery Plane...

PostPosted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 2:47 pm
by Ivan
though a few production models were built before development was cancelled

Like most late 30s stuff it disappeared after the factory relocation messed up production lines.

Theres a lot of interesting stuff from 1930s russia that never went past drawing board stage. Usually involving ramjet powered planes, some where rumoured to be transsonic capable

Re: Mystery Plane...

PostPosted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 9:48 pm
by flyboy 28
All I know is that it's in IL:2. :P

Re: Mystery Plane...

PostPosted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 1:46 pm
by Ivan
All I know is that it's in IL:2. :P

And that the few that were active did make a few kills...

But landing the thing was really dangerous

Re: Mystery Plane...

PostPosted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 2:12 pm
by Hagar
All I know is that it's in IL:2. :P

And that the few that were active did make a few kills...

Are you sure about that Ivan? It says HERE that only 7 powered flights were made. The project was abandoned after the test pilot was fatally injured during the 7th & final flight.

Re: Mystery Plane...

PostPosted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 1:17 pm
by Ivan
All I know is that it's in IL:2. :P

And that the few that were active did make a few kills...

Are you sure about that Ivan? It says HERE that only 7 powered flights were made. The project was abandoned after the test pilot was fatally injured during the 7th & final flight.

Nopbody is sure about ANY military statistics from russia in 1942... They hardly knew how many planes they had at the end of the week. Anything that could fly was put into action and when it was unrepairable stripped for parts or cut in pieces

Re: Mystery Plane...

PostPosted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 9:22 pm
by Purplehaze515
That thing is so fun in IL-2  ;D. I love attacking HE-111 formations with it

Re: Mystery Plane...

PostPosted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 10:28 pm
by Felix/FFDS
I was looking for a website like this where I could learn about the most obscure (but often most interesting) of Russian aircraft. Normally I used Wikipedia, and while it is a great source of quick info, their shelves are a little bare when it comes to the rarer Russian planes...



Like the IL-18 4-engined airliner that never made it into production past the prototype ?

 ;)

Re: Mystery Plane...

PostPosted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 3:06 am
by Ivan
I was looking for a website like this where I could learn about the most obscure (but often most interesting) of Russian aircraft. Normally I used Wikipedia, and while it is a great source of quick info, their shelves are a little bare when it comes to the rarer Russian planes...



Like the IL-18 4-engined airliner that never made it into production past the prototype ?