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12-18-2004, 01:42 PM
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| Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Upper Hampstead, NB, Canada
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| Identification of Soviet Aircraft Hello Once more, Another aircraft seems to have stumped me, This one, the light aircraft is a Hs 126, but the larger Russian one I have no idea what it is; could it be an Il-2? Sorry for the small picture, it is a scanned image from one of my grandfathers actual WWII albums. 
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12-18-2004, 01:47 PM
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  | Yeah looks like an IL2 - I dont see what else it could be. |
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12-18-2004, 01:49 PM
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| I thought so too but its a little hard to see...
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12-18-2004, 01:51 PM
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| Il-2, for sure... |
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12-18-2004, 02:12 PM
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| Definitely looks like an IL-2. Couldn't begin to tell you the model, though.  |
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12-18-2004, 02:51 PM
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| IL-2 for me............
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12-18-2004, 05:34 PM
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| Either that or its a Secret Soviet development  |
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12-19-2004, 08:36 AM
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| or something else we haven't thought of.........
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12-19-2004, 09:00 AM
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| Re: Identification of Soviet Aircraft Quote:
 Hey Der Mensch, was/is your grandfather German? I'm just curious, is all. | |
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12-19-2004, 09:41 AM
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| I think it's an Il2 M (late version) I'm sure I can see a gunners postion in the photo. |
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12-19-2004, 10:03 AM
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| "Shooter"   Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Moorpark, CA
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 | Some scanner software allows you to "Digitally crop" images. You can zoom into an area and enlarge it with a nice resolution. If you can, try that as larger images make it easier to identify. But I will agree with everyone else, it looks like an IL-2 to me also. That album sounds like a real treasure!
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12-19-2004, 01:34 PM
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| The Album is a treasure  I tried to enlarge it but that is a big as it is going to get without making it blurry.Cheers,
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12-19-2004, 05:32 PM
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| Thats as close as I can get it whilst still retaining some degree of quality to it, definately has a gunner position. |
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12-19-2004, 09:08 PM
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| Its an Il10, a development of the Il2. The shorter canopy is one clue, the smoother nose another. |
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12-19-2004, 09:33 PM
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| Good eyes!  I can't tell any of that, from that picture. |
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