Thread: Cockpits...file name same as aircraft type...a few more [15/15] - Yak-3 Cockpit.jpg (1/1)
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Old June 20th 16, 07:39 PM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.aviation
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Default Cockpits...file name same as aircraft type...a few more [15/15] - Yak-3 Cockpit.jpg (1/1)
"Miloch" wrote in message ...

Hence, the Polikarpov designers warning to the test pilots: "This is
Russia...you do not do the Polikarpov I-16...the Polikarpov I-16 does
YOU."

The "flying barrel" seems to have been inspired by the Gee Bee racers. There
was a saying in Russian, "If you can fly the I-16, you can fly anything."