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Re: Another replica LA5 ?

Posted by Mikael Olrog on Wed Jan 23, 2002 02:41:00 PM

In reply top Another replica LA5 ? posted by Mick on Wed Jan 23, 2002 02:07:43 PM

This last La 5 is a replica as well as some other aircraft on show at the Victory museum in moscow.

I think Kiwi Dave is in e-mail contact with the guys who built the replicas so he can probably give us information on them. May be also on the first La-5 in this discussion.

/Mikael

: If that one is a full scale model then it is very well mad
: e, it appears to have all the correct bits and pieces for
: an early model high-back LA5, and an authentic paintjob, m
: ore or less. If it's actually the same one then it's pictu
: red in Osprey's "Soviet Aces of WWII", White 15 flown by C
: apt G.D.Kostylev, Leningrad 1945......should have a yellow
: rudder and spinner though.
:
: Not so sure about the other LA5 that Tony posted. If it is
: real then a few things are wrong according to every LA5 p
: hoto and drawing that I've just been perusing.
:
: Firstly, it appears to have a high-back rear fuselage as t
: he top line of the canopy is perfectly straight into the r
: ear fuselage(to my eyes anyway), but the early versions ha
: d rear windows exactly the same as the LAGG3,as shown in b
: dk's pic. The windows on Tony's LA5 are completely wrong f
: or a high-back, and it certainly doesn't look to me as tho
: ugh it has a low back like the later LA5FN or LA7.
:
: Secondly, the supercharger intake on the upper cowling is
: wrong. For a late LA5FN or LA7 it is correct, but for a hi
: gh-back it is wrong, they stopped short just at the rear o
: f the nose-ring cowling on the high-back.
:
: Thirdly is the oil cooler intake under the cowling.It is m
: uch bigger than the intake on any LA5 that I've seen. The
: one on bdk's pic appears to be correct, only reaching half
: way along the cowling, but on Tony's pic it reaches all th
: e way to the nose-ring cowling, much too big.
:
: Along with the overall smooth "plasticky" look to it, and
: the sealed up wheel-wells, and one or two other bits, it j
: ust doesn't look entirely right to me.
:
: So........who knows what it is really, it could be real, b
: uilt from a recovered wreck maybe, but messed around a bit
: , or it could be a full scale model built as near as they
: could get it to the original, perhaps using some bits off
: other aircraft types ?
:
: Anyone agree...or not ?
:
: And is bdk's LA5 real or not....I'm presuming the latter b
: ut willing to be surprised ?
:
: TaTa
: Mick
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