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Charles Daniels Monino Album Images
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Charles Daniels Monino Album Images
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Charles Daniels Monino Album Images
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Charles Daniels Monino Album Images
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Charles Daniels Monino Album Images
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Charles Daniels Monino Album Images
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Ilyushin Il-2M3 SturmovikADDITIONAL INFORMATION: (Red 19, c/n 301060). The Il-2 Sturmovik (or 'Shturmovik') was designed as a low-level close-support aircraft capable of defeating enemy armor and other ground targets.
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Ilyushin Il-2M3 Sturmovik ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: (Red 19, c/n 301060). The Il-2 evolved continually and had a number of bigger and smaller improvements done, most of them based on real-life battle experience. Not all of these are actual variants of the I
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Ilyushin Il-2M3 Sturmovik ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: (Red 19, c/n 301060). To Il-2 pilots, the aircraft was simply the diminutive Ilyusha. To the soldiers on the ground, it was the Hunchback, the Flying Tank or the Flying Infantryman. Its postwar NATO repor
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Ilyushin Il-10M Sturmovik ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: The Ilyushin Il-10M Sturmovik was a bit longer, with a wider wingspan, and larger control surfaces, with a fin under the tail. Four of the more recently developed NR-23 cannons were mounted in the wings, w
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Ilyushin Il-10M Sturmovik ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: This is a photo of an Il-10M Sturmovik displayed outside of the Monino Museum located at Monino Airfield, 40 km east of Moscow, Russia wearing WW2 Soviet markings. Serial and c/n are unknown.
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Ilyushin Il-10M Sturmovik ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: In 1951, due to experience acquired during the Korean War, the Soviet Air Force decided that propeller ground attack aircraft might still be useful, and decided to renew Il-10 production in a modified vari
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Ilyushin Il-10M Sturmovik ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Ilyushin Il-10M in Soviet Air Force markings preserved at the Monino museum near Moscow, 1993
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Ilyushin Il-10M Sturmovik ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: If the development of the Il-10 was fast enough, the plane finally entered service in February 1945, thus too late date to actually take part in operations against the German army. However some, Il-10 were
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Petlyakov Pe-2 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: The records of the 16th and 39th BAPs of the Western Front Air Force note that the Pe-2s crews had the greatest success in repelling the attacks of enemy fighters in June and July 1941. On 1 July, for example, six Pe
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Petlyakov Pe-2 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: The Petlyakov Pe-2 was the standard twin-engine tactical bomber of the Second World War. This aircraft had the NATO reporting name of 'Buck'. More than 1,600 basic Pe-2s were produced. As the war went on the design w
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Petlyakov Pe-2 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: The Petlyakov Pe-2 name 'Buck' is part of the NATO reporting code namesor military equipment ofussia,hina, and, historically, the formerastern BlocSoviet Unionnd other nations of thearsaw Pact). They provide unambigu
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Petlyakov Pe-2 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: The Petlyakov Pe-2 as seen from a balcony inside the Monino museum which is located near Moscow.
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Bereznyak-Isayev BI-1 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: The exotic Bereznyak-Isayev BI-1 (in the foreground) was the first experimental rocket-powered fighter with a pressurized kerosene/RFNA system. Its first powered flight was made in mid-1942. There were six act
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Polikarpov U-2 Trainer ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: The aircraft was designed by Nikolai Polikarpov to replace the U-1 trainer (Avro 504), itself known as Avrushka to the Soviets. Its name was changed to Po-2 in 1944, after Polikarpov's death, according to the
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Polikarpov U-2 Trainer ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: From the beginning, the U-2 became the basic Soviet civil and military trainer aircraft, mass-produced in a Red Flyer factory near Moscow. It was also used for transport, and as a military liaison aircraft, d
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Polikarpov R-5 Biplane ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: The Polikarpov R-5 was a Soviet reconnaissance bomber aircraft of the 1930s. It was the standard light bomber and reconnaissance aircraft with the Soviet Air Force for much of the 1930s, while also being used
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Sukhoi Su-2 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: The Sukhoi Su-2 (Russian: _____ __-2) was a Soviet scout and light bomber aircraft used in the early stages of World War II. It was the first airplane designed by Pavel Sukhoi. The basic design received an engine and ar
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Sukhoi Su-2 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: A number of Sukhoi Su-2s had been delivered at the time of the German attack in June 1941 but when other types became available the Su-2 was quickly replaced on the production lines.
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Sukhoi Su-2 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Although 910 Su-2s were built by the time production was discontinued in 1942, the aircraft was obsolete and under armed by the start of thereat Patriotic War. In combat the Su-2 ground attack aircraft squadrons suffere
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Tupolev TU-2S ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: The Tupolev Tu-2 (Development names ANT-58 and 103, NATO reporting name: Bat) was a twin-engine Soviet (high-speed) daylight bomber (SDB) front-line bomber (FB) aircraft of World War II vintage. The Tu-2 was tailored
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Tupolev TU-2S ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Built from 1941 to 1948, the Tu-2 was the USSR's second most important twin-engine bomber (the first being the Pe-2). The design brought Andrei Tupolev back into favor after a period of detention. Crews were universal
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Tupolev ANT-25 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: URSS N025. This is a replica of Tupolev ANT-25 URSS N025. The Tupolev ANT-25 was a Soviet long-range experimental aircraft which was also tried as a bomber. First constructed in 1933, it was used by the Soviet Union
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Tupolev ANT-25 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: URSS N025. The Tupolev ANT-25 was a record breaking long distance aeroplane, two of which were built in the mid 1930's. Piloted by either Mikhail Gromov or Valery Chkalov, the two aircraft achieved several world rec
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Tupolev ANT-25 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: URSS N025. The ANT-25 was designed as the result of a recommendation by Kliment Voroshilov to the Revolutionary Military Council Revvoyensovyet on 7 December 1931, to build an aircraft for long range flights
