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Actually it is not the I-16. It is a Kharkiv R-10 ( KhAI-5 ) also called Neman R-10. It was a soviet reconnaissance and light bomber aircraft, designed in the mid 30' in the Kharkiv Aviation Institute (KhAI - in Ukrainian ХАІ ) by Iosif Grigorevich Nyeman. The plane is the "Red 9" captured in Ukraina in 1941 and belonged to the 46 OKAE. As you may notice she became a nice object for the German field trips and pic taking even been very derelicted.








the pic source: R-10 | World War Photos
 
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THANK YOU! Just an astonishing batch of photos. Goes in The Keep File.
Sidebar:
Awhile back Sergei Sikorsky related a visit that Klimov had with Stalin. Though K did not design the Il-2's Mikulin engine, IIRC he thought he had an improvement. Theoretically found a way to add 500 hrs to the useful engine life.

Comrade Stalin thought about that for just a bit.

Then, almost in so many words, said that if the Sturmovikii were lasting 500 hrs in combat, something needed correcting...

Gulp.
End of interview.
 
So, to land at night, the intrepid nightfighter pilot activated his trusty 4000 degree Fahrenheit blowtorches err landing lights conveniently mounted beneath his partially fabric-covered wings?
I'm assuming the light from the fires was for his benefit but it could just as easily been for benefit of the pilots landing after him? "Flight Commander Igor cleared to land to the left of Beloved Hero of the Motherland Comrade Smirnoff's flaming debris"..
 
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