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Let Let Let - Warplanes => Combat Warplanes => Topic started by: Letipapa on March 12, 2009, 10:38:54 PM

Title: Ikarus 451 in MJV, Belgrade
Post by: Letipapa on March 12, 2009, 10:38:54 PM

Interesting and unusual airplane, with a pilot laying on his chest, intended to be a reconnaissance airplane.
Constructive group of Dragoljub Beslin, 1950-56 roughly ( :-think)
Hope you all will like it. :) :-wave

Title: Re: Ikarus 451 in MJV, Belgrade
Post by: No.1 on March 12, 2009, 11:03:21 PM

This machine is very lovely creation ;)

Title: Re: Ikarus 451 in MJV, Belgrade
Post by: Letipapa on March 12, 2009, 11:10:28 PM

Indeed.What would I give to see it flying, sigh!
Here a some different looks on a cabin:

Title: Re: Ikarus 451 in MJV, Belgrade
Post by: Letipapa on March 12, 2009, 11:33:55 PM

same, more:

Title: Re: Ikarus 451 in MJV, Belgrade
Post by: Letipapa on March 14, 2009, 03:04:18 PM

More of cabin and very simple and interesting entrance door (or beter to say a shutter), then fuselage again:

Title: Re: Ikarus 451 in MJV, Belgrade
Post by: Letipapa on March 28, 2009, 09:39:12 PM

Details of the fuselage (from tail to cabin), then mosaic made of three of them.

Title: Re: Ikarus 451 in MJV, Belgrade
Post by: Letipapa on March 28, 2009, 11:03:12 PM

more fuselage, fuselage details near cabin, part of belly and right wing underside, the canon "case", look towards the cockpit from left side.

Title: Re: Ikarus 451 in MJV, Belgrade
Post by: Letipapa on March 28, 2009, 11:19:39 PM

Travell into a cockpit from left side...

Title: Re: Ikarus 451 in MJV, Belgrade
Post by: Letipapa on March 28, 2009, 11:30:37 PM

two more photo's from left and we come to a chin rest, then photo's are from the right side...

Title: Re: Ikarus 451 in MJV, Belgrade
Post by: Letipapa on March 28, 2009, 11:36:20 PM

two more from right, an then through the front glass...

Title: Re: Ikarus 451 in MJV, Belgrade
Post by: Letipapa on April 01, 2009, 09:48:13 PM

Now, wings - left wing first:

Title: Re: Ikarus 451 in MJV, Belgrade
Post by: Letipapa on April 01, 2009, 09:53:56 PM

more...

Title: Re: Ikarus 451 in MJV, Belgrade
Post by: Letipapa on April 01, 2009, 10:03:27 PM

Now don't be mad on me, my friends, but sometimes I like to look on airplane like an object of art itself, especially some details of form. So that is a reason I will repeat this tree photo's but in more dark light - for me this is magic.
Then I continue with left wing more technically and move slowly on it's underside. :-wave

Title: Re: Ikarus 451 in MJV, Belgrade
Post by: Letipapa on April 22, 2009, 02:31:04 PM

Rocket lancer under the left wing, two photos of lancer directly from below and  then one mosaic photo of left wing from above...

Title: Re: Ikarus 451 in MJV, Belgrade
Post by: Letipapa on April 23, 2009, 05:35:35 PM

One mosaic from below, then more details of the underside of this wing...

Title: Re: Ikarus 451 in MJV, Belgrade
Post by: Letipapa on April 28, 2009, 10:54:20 AM

One more detail of the left wing, and than right wing:

Title: Re: Ikarus 451 in MJV, Belgrade
Post by: No.1 on April 28, 2009, 10:56:56 AM

This is more then nice selection of images ;)

Title: Re: Ikarus 451 in MJV, Belgrade
Post by: Letipapa on April 28, 2009, 11:16:48 AM

Thanks No1 :-flo You know, I would like to see this airplane in plastic model kit, highly detailed and than to buy it and make it. I would really like to make one. But it seems there is no the kit yet. :-think

I continue (there is a lot of photo's) with one more detail on the right wing (it's an antenna pole) and then we go on right engine and propeller:
 :-wave

Title: Re: Ikarus 451 in MJV, Belgrade
Post by: Letipapa on April 28, 2009, 11:32:03 AM

more details of the right engine (from outside of course), details of the right nacelle, and the last photo is a look from the left engine and propeller to right one:

Title: Re: Ikarus 451 in MJV, Belgrade
Post by: Letipapa on April 28, 2009, 11:41:16 AM

Details of the left engine, nacelle, propeller head  and the 6Th photo - a look in tho the "throat" of the engine :) :-wave

Title: Re: Ikarus 451 in MJV, Belgrade
Post by: Letipapa on April 28, 2009, 12:23:54 PM

One more look on right nacelle, three more peeps into machine :), detail of the engine-propeller conection, detail of the very head of propeller.

There is one thing I need to comment here: on 4Th and 6Th photo her, you can notice certain amounts of spider web in the engine an amazingly :-eek in the shallow hole in the center of the propeller head. Well, it was not my intention to criticize museum, but I think that today (more than 10 years after big inflation, bombing, all the bad life and standard, and than the letargy that emerged and lasted generally up to now days) there is not resonable appology for such a thing. Do they check the condition of airplanes periodicaly. What is the practice in other museums in the world?
I don't now. I am going to check this, and if that web is there, I will offer them me to clean whole airplane at certain period as a volonter  :)(I don't believe they will say "OK"). Oh, what a chance to photograph that machine then!  :-jump
But, these are dreams... :(

Title: Re: Ikarus 451 in MJV, Belgrade
Post by: Letipapa on June 03, 2009, 12:50:03 AM

After some pause I continue with propeller :) :-wave

Title: Re: Ikarus 451 in MJV, Belgrade
Post by: Letipapa on June 03, 2009, 01:04:41 AM

More details of propellers, numbers on left one, and than on right...