"Sikorsky Ilya Muromets 4-engined airplane" Topic
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| Tango01 | 21 Sep 2019 10:01 p.m. PST |
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 The Virtual Armchair General  | 22 Sep 2019 8:47 a.m. PST |
Read about this one years ago and the time one of them shot down 7 (!) Austro-Hungarian fighter planes on a single mission. If I recall, it's top flight speed was some 60 mph (sic) and was the largest aircraft in the world for many years. It seems our Russian cousins have always had a taste for the "biggest," and in aviation the tradition continues in the Antonov. Thing I liked best about the link? The perfectly colorized photos! At first I was fooled to think the photo above was of a modern re-enactment, but careful study convinced me it was colorization, which all are so marked on site. As ever, "Merci beaucoups, Armand!" TVAG |
| Tango01 | 22 Sep 2019 3:24 p.m. PST |
A votre service mon cher ami!. (smile)
Amicalement
Armand
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| Old Wolfman | 23 Sep 2019 7:03 a.m. PST |
And it also had one of the first onboard loos. |
Tgerritsen  | 23 Sep 2019 7:37 a.m. PST |
I wonder if the loo was a proper one, or just a hole in the bottom? It would give one more extension to the role of 'bomber.' "We have a big mission today, everyone load up on chili!" |
| Tango01 | 23 Sep 2019 11:42 a.m. PST |
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 Sgt Slag | 24 Sep 2019 6:13 a.m. PST |
Nice write-up on them, on Wikipedia. I play Red Baron, WW I aircraft game, with 1/144 model planes. I found that Shapeways has a 1/144 model of this plane. We fly them on sticks/dowels, with a wire attaching the models to alligator clips, which grip the vertical sticks. The sticks are banded, every inch, for elevation, in 10-foot increments; we declare the height of the bottom of the stick (ground, or 500-feet, for example, or 1,000 feet, if need be), so everyone is typically at the same relative height, unless marked, and noted to be otherwise. Metal planes are the most common, but this bird is sooo huge, you'd need a 2-inch diameter dowel to support it! The 3-D printed model, is lighter than any metal 1/144 model I've seen yet. In the games I play, I typically run the "big whales", or bombers. It's like skinny-dipping in the Amazon River, with a school of Piranha… Everybody attacks the Whales, in a swarm… You thought "Shark Week" was bad -- you ain't seen nothin' yet! Been biding my time to finish painting my Muromet. Gonna run it as a gun ship, with 12 MG's… "Come get some, Comrades!" [Cue 'maniacal cackle' sound track…] [Whispers:] "Shhh!… Don't tell anyone." LOL! Cheers! |
| Tango01 | 25 Sep 2019 11:14 a.m. PST |
Interesting….
Amicalement
Armand
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| WarpSpeed | 11 Oct 2019 4:03 p.m. PST |
Excellent find Armand,thank you. |
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dips his toe into the Russo-Japanese War.
