[fileasfog]

Check out this great web page it is full of beautiful pictures and some interesting videos showing Polikarpov planes in the sky!
Photo Album

hERE IS THE LINK

[Cruver Collecter]

Missing the link, I like both of these aircraft and crossing my fingers that one or the other will be done in diecast one of these days.

[Epapazian]

While it hardly merits a pedestal in The Smithsonian, Model Power's 1-16 isn't half bad. Of course, you get no pilot, and the cockpit is overly snug, plus the only choice is a wheels-up display on a tiny stand. Still, the model is approximately 1:72nd scale and it doesn't feature that overly high windscreen one sees on the IXO versions. I've put in pilots and used larger stands on some of these birds with decent results.

[11SQNLDR]

Sorry for the pic quality - there were a number of these built for the New Zealand collector & pilor Sir Tim Wallis, owner of the Alpine Fighter Collection. Tim bought these out to NZ to join his stable of warbirds and as many as 5 I-16's & 2 I-153's were seen flying together at NZ airshows over the past few years.

A number of these have since been sold (along with a number of Tim's collection since his near-fatal accident where he wrote off his Mk.XIV Spitfire) but one of each remain in Wanaka in the South Island - I took these at the Easter airshow this year.
They are great to see displayed in the hands of a competent display pilot and the sound those radial engines make is very distinctive!

[STARMAN 352ND]

WOW....They look really nice.......Now i want one of these in a diecast.
Thanks for showing us the pictures Stew.
JP

[Cruver Collecter]

Fantastic shots you posted here. I really hope that HM follows through and does the I-16,,,, would really like it if the they did the I-153 too. Both are great looking aircraft. Like the shot of the I-153 taxiing by with the cockpit side panel down.

[jim]

Originally Posted by Cruver Collecter

Fantastic shots you posted here. I really hope that HM follows through and does the I-16,,,, would really like it if the they did the I-153 too. Both are great looking aircraft. Like the shot of the I-153 taxiing by with the cockpit side panel down.

Every time I look at these planes I think that they cannot be stable in flight.
The fuselage is so short I would have thought it very difficult to fly them in a straight line.
As to the drag factor , well look at them!

I have seen these two planes fly at Duxford and they were amazing, some great aerobatics and the agility of these birds has to be seen to be believed.

They would be great in 1/72 (Gemini) but I think 1/48 (HM) would be the better scale to do these justice, one day some one has got to make these two.

[Cruver Collecter]

Originally Posted by jim

Every time I look at these planes I think that they cannot be stable in flight.
The fuselage is so short I would have thought it very difficult to fly them in a straight line.
As to the drag factor , well look at them!

I have seen these two planes fly at Duxford and they were amazing, some great aerobatics and the agility of these birds has to be seen to be believed.

They would be great in 1/72 (Gemini) but I think 1/48 (HM) would be the better scale to do these justice, one day some one has got to make these two.

Hard to believe it, but the I-16 was the top of the line fighter when it first came out. I think 1/48th scale would really do justice to the I-16 and the I-153. I really like the gull wing on the I-153, that and it is kind of neat having a biplane with retractable landing gear.

[fileasfog]

here is the link: Photo Album
and here are some pictures from it
Photo Album

[Captain Eddie]

Thanks for the pics, 11SQNLDR and Fileasfog. JUST BEAUTIFUL!