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Let Let Let - Warplanes => Warplane Art => Topic started by: No.1 on January 01, 2010, 09:38:21 AM

Title: Bi-1
Post by: No.1 on January 01, 2010, 09:38:21 AM

Work on art of the Soviet rocker fighter prototype.

Title: Re: Bi-1
Post by: No.1 on January 01, 2010, 11:00:58 AM

More progress on this 'morning' project  :-razz

Title: Re: Bi-1
Post by: No.1 on January 01, 2010, 12:03:58 PM

This is it!!! First art made this year  :-ok

Title: Re: Bi-1
Post by: Nico Braas on January 01, 2010, 12:35:56 PM

Here is a shot of the very convincing BI-1 replica as exhibited in the Air Force museum at Monino near Moscow.
I took this photo in 1992 during my Great Russian Spotter Trip!

Title: Re: Bi-1
Post by: No.1 on January 01, 2010, 12:38:42 PM

As I know two samples is preserved. This one is in far better condition but a little bit strange painted ;)

Title: Re: Bi-1
Post by: Letipapa on January 06, 2010, 02:34:29 PM

 :-tri I adore this Russian early rocket and jet types. Great work Srecko, but it is in an unusual angle - is it going to be a part of a larger picture :-think Maybe a cover for some magazine or book :-think :-think

Title: Re: Bi-1
Post by: No.1 on January 06, 2010, 03:46:26 PM

I still don't know what background to place and for first time I have use it for the January calendar.

;)

Title: Re: Bi-1
Post by: alaleksic on January 07, 2010, 11:55:43 PM

Great  :-ok :-clap :-clap

Title: Re: Bi-1
Post by: No.1 on January 08, 2010, 08:56:09 PM

Thank you  :-ok And how about this?

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Post by: samuraj77 on January 08, 2010, 09:40:08 PM

Good work, and the calendar is nice also http://www.letletlet-warplanes.com/calendar.zip

Title: Re: Bi-1
Post by: Letipapa on January 10, 2010, 02:01:50 PM

 :-ok :-clap :-clap :-clap :-wave

Title: Re: Bi-1
Post by: santynus on January 12, 2010, 11:36:13 AM

 :-ok :-wave

Title: Re: Bi-1
Post by: No.1 on January 26, 2010, 11:01:35 PM

Thank you all :)) See this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ9255wLbKw

Title: Re: Bi-1
Post by: Letipapa on January 27, 2010, 01:20:18 AM

Phuh! What a landing! Great film.

Title: Re: Bi-1
Post by: Nico Braas on January 27, 2010, 04:01:19 PM

This is not a landing but a controlled crash (although I put some questions marks if it WAS fully controlled).

Title: Re: Bi-1
Post by: Letipapa on February 06, 2010, 01:10:47 PM

Ah, so, no more fuel and than a kind of sailing, or better to say falling down, to the runway (or better to say the field). Something like that? :-think

Title: Re: Bi-1
Post by: Nico Braas on February 06, 2010, 01:23:36 PM

Yep, as soon as fuel was exhausted it was noting more than a glider! With its short wings and high wing loading I assume that any landing with this contraption must have been 'interesting'!! Me-163 Komet was also glider when fuel was burned up, but at least pilots started their training on gliders with shortened wings to simulate higher landing speeds before they flew unpowered Me-163 version. BI-1 also flew unpowered as we can see from photos with rocket exhaust covered by a streamlined cap.
In Germany there is still a Me-163 replica flying as a glider!!

Title: Re: Bi-1
Post by: Letipapa on February 06, 2010, 02:01:19 PM

I have Me-163 in my flight simulator, and I tried it... it's a pretty hard job to land it nice. I finished like this Bi-1 on a film, many times, even worse :-green But, of course  I am not trained pilot.

Look, these were times in some way similar to pioneering times before 1914. Who knew how an aircraft will be acting in such speeds? Then the sensitivity of fuels, then the speed of production, savings on material etc.
I do not know did Russians started this experiments independently by themselves or after, when they captured all those German factories, projects, airplanes, men...
But all those guys who flied those machines were very brave! :-salut :-wave