I-16 Very close view - Flying Warbird!
 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=Wre6DUAbMIg

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Great video, thanks for posting! RIP Mark.

one thing i notice is the pilots position and the size of the back plate. in il2 1946 its incredibly huge and obstructing, while in this video the pilot can clearly check his six with no problems.

Great video, thanks for sharing

Saw a flying i16 at duxford flying legends 2 years ago, really cool:cool:

Yes, unbelievable...still flying!
 

One thing I have noticed, it was the vibrations of the little door, and the vibrations of the pitot tube on the wing. Also i have noticed the relative size of the pilot accordingly to the planes size. I-16 is realy small plane...

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And one more thig I have found - it is the type of the tail wheel of I-16 in the video, and the tail wheel of I-16 on the 3D model from the Friday update. The model of the tail wheel of the 3D model from the Friday update have cylindrical crosssection...very suspicious...

I noticed that too. I'd like to see those kinds of effects modelled in a sim one day, but I'm not holding my breath.

Thanks for the video. I like planes that look like an engine with a few other bits added on. Was waiting to see the pilot do some rolls though. There's another video out there somewhere too that shows the I-16 manouvering so fast it looks like the film is sped up. Even in this video there are a couple of moments there where I'm sure I can see the plane moving around a bit more than the pilot wanted it to.

Have been wondering whether this tiny bird could really give early German fighters a hard time in WWII as portrayed in IL2.

To be honest, not really. The BF-109 has all the advantages except horizontal maneuverability. The Rata was very nimble and hard to hit I could imagine, but it contributed little to halt the German Blitz, it was essential for them to shoot down the German bombers, but they couldn't, not enough of them at least. Large numbers were destroyed on the ground by the bombers and in the air by the 109/110 escorts. The Rata being very advanced when it was introduced, was obsolete by summer 1941. Lacking in speed and armament ( 4x ShKAS main type I-16 ) it was no serious threat for the German fighter pilot, if he stuck to his flying envelop.

It could give Emils a hard time down low, but Friedrichs outclassed it totally if flown by people who Knew what they were doing, which by and large in '41 the Luftwaffe did.