Old photos coming to light

[Airframes]

Good stuff Grant.
I noticed a Havoc/Boston in the background - I wonder if the information board stated 'Made in Russia' !!!

 

[Gnomey]

Lovely shots Grant!

 

[nuuumannn]

Thanks all. Yep, Terry, a few US types at Monino, including this good looking P-63F Kingcobra.

Bell P-63F Kingcobra 002

Next is this rather diminutive swept wing fighter, the Lavochkin La-15, the losing competition to the classic MiG-15.

Lavochkin La 15

 

[Airframes]

Good stuff, and interesting that those from the Great Patriotic War, seem better preserved.

 

[Capt. Vick]

The sad thing about Monino is that a big new memorial is being built on the outskirts of Moscow and airframes are being moved there from this museum, but any that are too big to be moved will be scrapped. This will include rarities like the Ukraina, the Sukhoi T-4 and probably the Tu-144.

Really? No!!

 

[nuuumannn]

Really? No!!

'Fraid so, The Russians love their history, but only if it is palatable to them. Patriot Park is a huge complex and incorporates the Kubinka Tank Museum exhibits, well, some of them anyway. The rest are still at the old site, which is, mercifully near the park.

 

[nuuumannn]

Today's installment is a different take on a familiar subject, the sturmovik variant of the MiG-15.

Mikoyan Guryevich MiG-15 ISH Sturmovik

And a rustic illusion...

Illyushin DB-3 002

Thanks for looking.

 

[jetcal1]

Today's installment is a different take on a familiar subject, the sturmovik variant of the MiG-15.

View attachment 575584Mikoyan Guryevich MiG-15 ISH Sturmovik

And a rustic illusion...

View attachment 575585Illyushin DB-3 002

Thanks for looking.

Thank you for posting.

 

[Capt. Vick]

 

[Gnomey]

Good stuff Grant!

 

[nuuumannn]

Thank you.

Thought the Me 163 Komet was the only rocket powered interceptor of WW2 - the Berezniyak-Isayev Bi-1 - this is a replica.

Bereznyak-Isayev Bi-1 reproduction 001

A dog and a helicopter, a big helicopter.

Mil Mi-6T Hook A 002

There are dogs wandering about all over ther place at Monino, most of them scruffy mangy things. This one got a little feisty as I knelt down to photograph the Mi-6, but when I stood up and called it to say hello, it scampered away with its tail between its legs. It was chained to the Mi-26 out of the picture.

 

[Snautzer01]

Very nice but very apocaliptic pictures.

 

[nuuumannn]

Very nice but very apocaliptic pictures.

Yeah, the depleting of colour was designed to hide how poor the quality of the original images were to begin with. They were taken with a 35mm film camera and processed on rather poor quality agfa film (cheap and better to buy before I went to Russia, like water! Russian water back then was undrinkable. Survived for three weeks from bottled water bought in Finland!) so in scanning the photos I have digitally removed imperfections, ie marks on the paper, hairs etc. The vignetting and noise removal reduces aberrations in the digitalisation, which converts what it can't process into pixels, which stand out like dog's balls once effects are applied in post production.

 

[nuuumannn]

The Russians, like evryone else who operated the DB-7/A-20 liked it. This was the first time I had seen one in the flesh.

Douglas A-20G Boston 001

Suka Blyat! What's going on with those engines?! Be-32.

Beriev Be-32 Cuff

 

[Gnomey]

Nice shots Grant!

 

[nuuumannn]

Thanks mate.

This is 'allegedly' Ivan Kozhedub's La-7. Might be, might not be.

Lavochkin La-7 002

The Yak-40 short haul transport was not an overwhelming success. It had three tiny engines that did little but convert fuel into noise, so had a short range. It was largely replaced by the superior Yak-42.

Yakovlev Yak-40 Codling

 

[nuuumannn]

The Kamov Ka-25 was the standard ship based helicopter equipping Soviet era warships from the 1970s onwards. Wins no beauty contests...

Kamov Ka-25 BSH Hormone A

Little appreciated by the VVS, the MiG-19 interceptor was a bold design for the early 1950s and has seen one of the longest production and service runs of any post-WW2 combat aircraft, with subsequent production in China as the Shenyang J-6 exceeding that of the original manufacturer in numbers by a wide margin. Who would'a thought?

Mikoyan Guryevich MiG-19 PMU SM-7M Farmer D 002

 

[Graeme]

was not an overwhelming success.

Hi Grant.
I always thought the Yak-40 was very successful - then had a look around and read (Simpson) "but they had poor economics and were withdrawn after a short period". Took'em a while to figure it out - I see a production run of 1,136 built.

Very nice thread - keep'em coming!

 

[vikingBerserker]

Awesome shots! I wonder if one of the other air museums would take the Tu 144.

 

[nuuumannn]

"but they had poor economics and were withdrawn after a short period". Took'em a while to figure it out - I see a production run of 1,136 built.

Yeah, was exported extensively and did have a good production run, but not a great aircraft. I work with a guy who used to work with Lithuanian Airlines and he said the Yak-40 was rubbish. He did have praise for the Yak-42 though.