November 9, 201510 yr I've been following this guy's channel for a few weeks now and I'm really surprised with how little attention his videos seem to be getting. He has a whole bunch of videos mostly recorded between the 90s and now documenting rare (mostly russian) aircraft in a long, trip-report style format. They're really detailed and lots of fun to watch if you like old airliners: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIu9ReHPX-NyA0Gamb-wvLA/videos
November 9, 201510 yr Moderator Is it just me, or does the Lusunov - 2 look like a clone of the venerable DC-3? Fr. Bill AOPA Member: 07141481 AARP Member: 3209010556 Avsim Board of Directors | Avsim Forums Moderator
November 9, 201510 yr I think it is. The Russians reverse engineered some of the C-47's that were given them during WWII. Why develop something from scratch, when you can copy something. James M Driskell, Maj USMC (Ret)
November 9, 201510 yr Moderator Both the Li-2 and the Showa/Nakajima L2D were license built versions of the DC-3. The USSR and Japan had to 'reverse engineer' the DC-3 to match their Metric equivalents; the Japanese even made L2D's with their control surfaces made out of wood. Alan :smile:
November 10, 201510 yr Moderator Thanks for the further information. Fr. Bill AOPA Member: 07141481 AARP Member: 3209010556 Avsim Board of Directors | Avsim Forums Moderator
November 13, 201510 yr For the maddog lovers: "Why I've fallen in love with this 'old school' workhorse". Kent Wien https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_profilepage&v=7R0CViDUBFs RJ
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