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I know I've mentioned my desire for an I-153 in my hangar before, but I might be onto something here...

Hours spent trawling through Avsim.ru for pieces of Soviet heavy metal, and I stumbled across an I-15/I-153 project that had been abandoned and is now freeware
It's been done in FSDS, so I'm led to believe. There are a couple of screenshots taken from FSDS, and it does look promising (eg: the upper wing actually has a smooth curve down to the fuselage, unlike the angles I've seen on other models of this machine)

Being that I suck unbelievably badly with programs like GMAX and FSDS (it once took me an entire weekend to "construct" a simple tube that actually looked somewhat like a tube) is there anyone here who can take up where this Russian guy abandoned it? I can email the files easily (just under 10mb) if there is any interest.

Here's some of the screenshots within the package:

I have have the programs , the material in a series of many many books , my art work is prity creative , fact is love give it a try but simply not shore i have any further spear time .

I would love the I-153! Could you post screenies of it for me? Alternatively just email me the file, I'll PM you with my address

Just sent you the files Zac, keep us updated on what you think...

Have you not seen this download at flightsim.com
Name: polikarpovi-15.zip Size: 4,185,108 Date: 01-08-2010 Downloads: 711
FS2004/FSX Polikarpov I-15. The Polikarpov I15 was a highly manoeuvrable fighter. It had a small lower wing and large upper gull wing curved down at the roots to meet the fuselage. It gained a world altitude record before serving in very large numbers (about 550) in Spain, where it was dubbed Chato (flat-nosed). It even served against the Finns and Luftwaffe, but by 1937 it was being replaced by the I-15bis with a continuous upper wing carried on struts. This is a Polikarpov I-15, Nr46, leader aircraft of Group 26, piloted by Ivan Eriomenko commander of 1 Squadron between May and October of 1937. Gmax model by A.F. Scrub.





looks like the same model to me ...

Yeah seen that one Mike, possibly the same model... I have found other I-15's over the years though and I'm not that interested in them
It's the I-153 that I want - the last biplane fighter to enter service (it came out after the better known I-16 monoplane) and probably still stands as the fastest biplane in the world