Recent content by Massimo Tessitori

Hi Steph hi Anton, I see, you are right about the frame. This gives a further suggestion: the La-5F has to be of early production, without jettisonable rails, to justify the difference of height of the rear frame visible through the opened sliding hood. This encourages to think that the factory...

I'm happy that you have started a so interesting thread. Very interesting coincidence. The idea is likely, it is much easier to repaint an intact plane than to convert and repair a crashed one in few days. True, but official sources could be unaccurate too. The coincidence of the date on...

Hi Anton, hi all, this idea looks interesting. Assuming that some plane was repainted as n.14, is there a reason to think that it was another previously flown by Kozhedub and not any plane of the unit? Who knows if they had other La-5F still in service? Probably not. Repainting a visibly...

Hi, are you Anton Petrov, the owner of the site? I've seen it and was highly impressed for the excellent quality of the work, both for graphic level of profiles and for the research. I have still to read the whole site with the care that it deserves. Thank you for your kind words about my old...

I hope that something new will emerge, I've drawn a profile years ago for a page that is still awaiting my time to be completed. Maybe the serial, if known, could add something. Regards Massimo

I agree.

Hi Steph, hi all, I was interested to plane 14 some years ago and I remember that it was discussed on Sovietwarplanes. I think to remember that the plane could have been built as a La-5F, and later converted into a La-5FN replacing the engine and cowling. I think to remember that the photo of...

A wreck of La-5 can be seen here: Lavochkin La-5 Reference photos by Robert N. Abbott Jr.

Those planes are well documented, and the speed in Wikipedia is the same that I remember to have read on books 40 years ago. If one wants to research, documents are not rare. Just one link for example: http://www.ilvolo.it/index.php/201211029261/Approfondimenti/Approfondimento.html

The speed of those planes, as of all other ones, is documented in historical documents on which books are based.

I wonder why we need to hypothesize. Reggiane Re.2005 - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macchi_C.205

I think to remember that the max speed of the Re-2005 was 628 km/h while the MC-205 reached 650 km/h.

This text is from Gordon, p.87. It is true only for the Yak-9U VK-105PF-2 first prototype, photos at pag.86 of the book of Gordon. Production Yak-9U had the VK-107 and the moved-back canopy. Eventually, production Yak-9U are very resemblant to the Yak-3VK-107, three prototypes plus (perhaps) 50...

The Yak-9U of the first photo really had an one-piece windshield, but it was not representative of serie production. Yak-3 and Yak-9D both had their cockpit in aft position, while Yak-9 T and M had in moved back position. 40cm is right. All the planes with VK-107 had the canopy in back...

Thank you for your kind words. Massimo