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PostPosted: Thu Jan 23, 2014 5:49 pm
by Splitpin
I got a copy of Gavins book today , and Im filled with screenshot inspiration smile.gif
But , before i look ..... is there an La -9 for FSX ? I think i have all the others he features.

PostPosted: Thu Jan 23, 2014 6:04 pm
by Ian Warren
Splitpin wrote:
QUOTE (Splitpin @ Jan 23 2014,6:49 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I got a copy of Gavins book today , and Im filled with screenshot inspiration smile.gif
But , before i look ..... is there an La -9 for FSX ? I think i have all the others he features.

No there is not .. FS-9 , I think i tried to get it to work in FSX years back, Aeroplane Heaven may still have the site open as freeware - the very aircraft was painted

PostPosted: Thu Jan 23, 2014 6:34 pm
by Splitpin
Ian Warren wrote:
QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Jan 23 2014,7:04 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
No there is not .. FS-9 , I think i tried to get it to work in FSX years back, Aeroplane Heaven may still have the site open as freeware - the very aircraft was painted


Ok , I'll search no more.... Cheers Ian.

PostPosted: Thu Jan 23, 2014 7:35 pm
by Kiwia1spad
Splitpin wrote:
QUOTE (Splitpin @ Jan 23 2014,7:34 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Ok , I'll search no more.... Cheers Ian.

The A-H website is still open, and there are some freewares on there including La-9. It flies pretty good in FSX, i am running acceleration with no problems.. The paints are fantastic and it includes the now departed kiwi flier

PostPosted: Thu Jan 23, 2014 8:39 pm
by deeknow
Yeah the AH LA-9 works a treat in FSX, nice external model, passable VC and decent 2D panel.

PostPosted: Thu Jan 23, 2014 8:51 pm
by Ian Warren
Kiwia1spad wrote:
QUOTE (Kiwia1spad @ Jan 23 2014,8:35 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
The A-H website is still open, and there are some freewares on there including La-9. It flies pretty good in FSX, i am running acceleration with no problems.. The paints are fantastic and it includes the now departed kiwi flier

I may have missed latter updates , prop texture and canopy ...

deeknow wrote:
QUOTE (deeknow @ Jan 23 2014,9:39 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Yeah the AH LA-9 works a treat in FSX, nice external model,

Be ideal to get and paste photo real onto the model .. that would really Blow it ! cool.gif

PostPosted: Fri Jan 24, 2014 4:51 am
by hasegawa
http://www.flight1.com/products.asp?product=bslavo

Sorry , but I can´t tell something about this Lavochkin-Fighters. It was one of the first products of Bear Studios. I have from them the MiG 15, MiG 17 and the J-10... good aircraft. I like them.

PostPosted: Fri Jan 24, 2014 7:45 am
by Ian Warren
hasegawa wrote:
QUOTE (hasegawa @ Jan 24 2014,5:51 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Sorry , but I can´t tell something about this Lavochkin-Fighters. It was one of the first products of Bear Studios.

Never saw that one from the Bear Studios cool.gif

Its amazing reading the history of Semyon Lavochkin , untrusted and unworthy worked on designing the original La fighters in the open for starters in snow placing tents up around them so they could continue to work , wasn't until a Soviet fighter ace tried it out and going back to the Comrades to convince them they had a winner ... so strange the Russian thinking at time ... next thing hes Great Patriotic Hero of the Motherland and scores himself a factory.

PostPosted: Fri Jan 24, 2014 4:58 pm
by Splitpin
Thank you gents , i shall go looking for that model. I assume "AH" is the aeroplane heaven site ?

PostPosted: Fri Jan 24, 2014 6:00 pm
by Ian Warren
Splitpin wrote:
QUOTE (Splitpin @ Jan 24 2014,5:58 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Thank you gents , i shall go looking for that model. I assume "AH" is the aeroplane heaven site ?

Yes Indeed, but looking at screens of the Bear Studious , the better model cool.gif

PostPosted: Fri Jan 24, 2014 8:20 pm
by Splitpin
Ian Warren wrote:
QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Jan 24 2014,7:00 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Yes Indeed, but looking at screens of the Bear Studious , the better model cool.gif


Then I'll grab that as well , not fussed about internals or dynamics .... it just has to look good.

PostPosted: Mon Jan 27, 2014 11:21 pm
by hasegawa
Well, first it was a trio Lavotchkin, Gorbunov and Gudkov... the first aircraft in the Line was the LaGG-3, the pilots talking about this aircraft as Лакированный, гарантированный гроб ... Varnished guaranteed coffin. The LaGG-3 was a underpowered and sluggish aircraft, aerodynamicly a compromise, far from good. In around 1941/42 Gorbunov and Gudkov leave the OKB, the reason is unknown for me.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...GG-3_Moscow.jpg

Yakovlev, as deputy minister of aircraft production in the war years told the OKB LaGG "The tree Musketeers", after the roman by Alexandre Dumas. The La 5 (end of 1942, first flown in combat over Stalingrad) ,

http://www.flugzeuginfo.net/acimages/la5_nesvetaev.jpg

and especcialy the La-5FN (1943, modified engine, better around vision)) are far superior

, the La 7 (1944) all metall and better streamlined aircraft and modified weapons,

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...8238008376).jpg

The La 9 and 11 are developments from the La 7...

Lavotchkin went on to construct fighters, but after the La 11, they never entered production. His last aircraft was the La 250 from 1958. The pilots called them "Anakonda", a good, interesting looking interceptor aircraft, but... not easy to fly.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Monino_2008.jpg

Semyon Alekseyevich Lavochkin died June 9, 1960. He was at this time Major General (honorary) and deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. He also became an Academician of USSR Academy of Sciences in 1958. He died in was buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semyon_Lavochkin

PostPosted: Tue Jan 28, 2014 8:10 am
by Ian Warren
That was one thing mention about the Lavotchkin was it horrendous bouncing on landing - many got hurt and injured giving it more power rather just let it settle ... I think we were so lucky to see half a dozen Polikarpov's and how different but supremely experienced pilots landed back at Wanaka during the airshows so maybe the best example to convey the difficulty with La's .

PostPosted: Tue Jan 28, 2014 11:58 am
by deeknow
hasegawa wrote:
QUOTE (hasegawa @ Jan 24 2014,5:51 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Ooh, ooh, didnt know about that one, looks good, thanks.