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[Hood]

A very interesting addition Redhorse.

[Rhade]

words can't describe the level of awesome this topic have.

[eswube]

Thank You very much for kind words!

@Hood
Sadly there are variants that "escape" me - sometimes due to lack of useful sources, sometimes because the external differences are hardly visible at this scale.

@Odysseus1980
Pe-2SO was Polish testbed for the experimental SO ramjet engine developed in late 1940s/early 1950s at Główny Instytut Lotnictwa by the design team of Stanisław Wójcicki. Airplane was converted to this role in 1950, but never actually progressed beyond the ground trials in this configuration (and eventually was re-converted to standard bomber in 1952). As for the works on the engine, both domestic research and news of the German war-time activities in similar area (using Dornier bombers as testbeds) published by Americans led to conclusion that a faster aircraft is needed as testbed. There was an idea to convert Yak-23, but it never left the drawing board and eventually whole ramjet project was cancelled. Engine itself is now exhibited at Kraków museum.

@Redhorse
Nice addition.

[DeadRight]

Chinook
1. RAF
2. RCAF
3. US Army


Hope you guys like it.

Note: I redid some little things as Eswube pointed out some errors in my Submission

[eswube]

Nice work DeadRight, but You should add Your name to credits and that "hole" in the CH-147F's front door should be outlined in black (unless it's supposed to be white paint on metal).

So, continuing with Polish Wings related stuff... the Tupolev bombers - the Tu-2 family, starting with ANT-58 and significantly redesigned ANT-59 and ANT-60 early prototypes, through early series Tu-2VS and Tu-2R recce version, followed by the "main series" Tu-2S. Also (all of them either prototypes or built just in short series), two attempts at building a long-range version Tu-2D - the ANT-62 and ANT-67, the Tu-2T and ANT-62T torpedo bombers, the fast front-line bomber Tu-10 (initially Tu-4) alias ANT-68, high-altitude bomber/recce ANT-65, UTB trainer, Tu-6 alias Tu-2F recon version, and Tu-8 (ANT-69) long range bomber, as well as some of the (much more numerous) testbeds based on Tu-2. Additionaly the SDB (ANT-63) fast bomber developed from first prototype and the Tu-1 (ANT-63P) night fighter, developed in turn from SDB. And finally the Tu-12 (ANT-77) - first Soviet jet bomber (built in extremely short series of 6) and the Chelomey 16Kh missile, which was basically a Soviet attempt to build an air-launched twin-engined in-flight controlled V-1.

Tupolev ANT-58, ANT-59, ANT-60, ANT-62, ANT-65, ANT-67, ANT-68, ANT-69, Tu-1, Tu-2, Tu-7, Tu-8, Tu-10 (Soviet Union, Bulgaria, China, Germany, Hungary, Indonesia, North Korea, Poland)









Tupolev ANT-77 Tu-12 (Soviet Union)


Chelomey 16Kh (Soviet Union)

[Hood]

Again, great additions and very thorough.

[odysseus1980]

Thumps up for one of my favorit Soviet aircraft! Always like the lines of Tupolev Tu-2.

[Gollevainen]

this just keeps getting better

[Rhade]

Upsss... he did it again!

[eswube]

Thanks Mates!

Next to come are Sturmoviks, to be followed by Yakovlev fighters. And that will be it for a while.
(but of course more will come eventually )