"Jayhawk Jake" (jayhawkjake)
03/06/2014 at 08:29 • Filed to: PLANELOPNIK
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"Jayhawk Jake" (jayhawkjake)
03/06/2014 at 08:29 • Filed to: PLANELOPNIK | 4
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My plane-a-day calendar has a DC-3 today, and since it's my favorite plane have a DC-3
My hovercraft is full of eels
> Jayhawk Jake
03/06/2014 at 09:06 |
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Nice. My addition: the Russian "knock-off" Lisunov Li-2. This one is the only airworthy example today:
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Jayhawk Jake
> My hovercraft is full of eels
03/06/2014 at 09:13 |
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To be clear, it wasn't really a knock-off, it was built under license.
I figure you're aware of that, hence the quotes around knock-off, just wanted to clarify for everyone
By contrast, this was a total knockoff:
I can do a full write up on it sometime, but basically Russia kept asking the US for B-29s and the US said no. However, a handful of B-29's made emergency landings or crashed in Russia, so they interned them, tore them apart, and rebuilt their own copies. They ended up building nearly 850 of them!