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Let Let Let - Warplanes => Warplane Art => Topic started by: No.1 on April 07, 2012, 10:46:39 AM

Title: Lisunov Li-2
Post by: No.1 on April 07, 2012, 10:46:39 AM

Soviet transport plane, license build version of C-47. This sample is from post war Yugoslav service.

Title: Re: Lisunov Li-2
Post by: Sall on April 07, 2012, 02:02:24 PM

Great job mate! Finaly some Yugoslavian plane and sample! Bravo! :-clap :-clap

Title: Re: Lisunov Li-2
Post by: Nico Braas on April 07, 2012, 03:33:35 PM

Here is a nice shot of an Li-2 at Orly, France.
It arrived there shortly after the war to transport the French leader of the Communist Party Maurice Thorez to a hospital in Moscow.

Title: Re: Lisunov Li-2
Post by: Nico Braas on April 07, 2012, 03:51:47 PM

Two more Li-2's photographed during my Great Russian Spotter Trip of 1992 at Monino.

Title: Re: Lisunov Li-2
Post by: No.1 on April 07, 2012, 04:27:32 PM

Excellent Nico :-clap

Title: Re: Lisunov Li-2
Post by: tave on April 07, 2012, 07:42:08 PM

This is a copy of DC-3 . I"d like have this model in 1:32 :)

Title: Re: Lisunov Li-2
Post by: Second Air Force on April 07, 2012, 10:51:49 PM

Yes, Douglas sold several DC-3 passenger versions to the Soviet Union. Notice that No.1's profile and the camouflaged airplane Nico photographed at Monino both have the aft passenger door on the right side of the fuselage. The DC-3 that Lisunov used as a pattern machine was originally built for either American Airlines (or one of a couple other airlines) that required the passenger door on the right. Most DC-3s and all C-47/C-53s had the door on the left.

Does anyone know if any Li-2s are still airworthy? I seem to remember reading that none are currently capable of flight.

Scott