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Jetsicles!

By The Armorer on January 21, 2006 | | Comments (8)

Alan of GENX@40 is an avid collector of Jetsicles - airplanes on poles (not Andre'). I just came across a mother-lode of Jetsicles Around the World - some of the best being from Russia. I really like the ones that have some imagination put into them, vice the "pinned butterfly" look.

This is the first non-grainy, non-wartime photo I've *ever* seen of the Soviet Rocket Fighter, the Bereznyakov-Isaev BI-1 - although, I have *flown one* before. With salutary results. Anyway - click the pic to see the others.

Click this picture to see the album

Alan - there's some Canadian fighters in there, too.

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By Alan on January 21, 2006 10:04 AM
Ah, what beauties. Here is a link to all my earlier jetsicle posts. [right-click and open in a new window for best results]
 
By Neffi on January 21, 2006 11:30 AM
Ah, the Soviet copy of the B&V Natter... and I'm sure they had the same success with it that the LW did. Talk about a pilot killer- sheesh.
 
By John of Argghhh! on January 21, 2006 11:56 AM
Well, in *sim* it's tough to handle - but it flies better than the Natter ever did in sim (that said, how much flight data exists for the Natter? Not much!) The Me163 is easier to fly in Il-2, doesn't have near the compressibility issues at high speed. Want to scare yourself? When you get target fixated and quit paying attention to airspeed and your controls lockup... about the only thing you can do to recover is an *outside* loop. Better hope you have the altitude...
 
By Casey Tompkins on January 21, 2006 12:28 PM
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought of the Natter... :) John: does your sim include a manned Fi-103? Just curious...
 
By Neffi on January 21, 2006 6:04 PM
John, there's a downloadable Me163 campaign for IL2 that's very worthwhile...
 
By SezaGeoff on January 21, 2006 7:07 PM
The Clovis, NM jetsicle is an F 111 Aardvark ( or BushPig as we call 'em), not an F 106 Delta Dart. Otherwise, very interesting.
 
By John of Argghhh! on January 21, 2006 9:22 PM
Note - pic captions are *not* mine (being sensitive to snarks about such things) but I will go fix that. Sometime. I'm too busy being sick today to go do that now.
 
By John of Argghhh! on January 21, 2006 9:35 PM
Casey - nope, no Reichenbergs there, though it *does* have MXY7-K1 Ohkas in it, they aren't flyable by the player. Which, given the purpose of both the manned buzz bomb and the Ohka, makes sense. Pretty boring job - in sim.