IL-2 Sturmovik Plans

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<table style="width: 100%;" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td colspan="2" width="99%"> <p><span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><strong>IL-2 STURMOVIK Plan Set</strong></em></p> <p>&nbsp;<strong><strong><em>This is a full size printed set of Plans and other Documentation</em></strong></strong></p> <strong><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">&nbsp;<em><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Design Specifications</em></strong> &nbsp; <strong><strong><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> Scale: 1/5&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong></strong> <strong><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </strong> <strong><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> Wingspan: 114"&nbsp;</strong> &nbsp; <strong><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> Wing Aera: 2560 sq inches</strong><strong><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong> &nbsp; <strong><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> Length: 90"&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong><strong><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">&nbsp;</strong> &nbsp; <span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong> Power: 85cc&nbsp;</strong> &nbsp; <span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong> Weight: 35lbs&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong> <p align="justify"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">&nbsp;</p> <p align="justify"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">&nbsp;</p> <p align="justify"><strong><span style="color: #cc3300; font-family: Tahoma;">Brief Aircraft History</strong></p> <p><span style="color: #000000;">The&nbsp;<strong>Ilyushin Il-2</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>Shturmovik</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;was a&nbsp;<a class="mw-redirect" title="Ground-attack aircraft" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground-attack_aircraft"><span style="color: #000000;">ground-attack aircraft</a>&nbsp;produced by the&nbsp;<a title="Soviet Union" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union"><span style="color: #000000;">Soviet Union</a>&nbsp;in large numbers during&nbsp;<a title="World War II" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II"><span style="color: #000000;">the Second World War</a>. The Il-2 was never given an official name and 'shturmovik' is the generic Russian word meaning ground attack aircraft. The word also appears in Western sources as Stormovik&nbsp;and Sturmovik,&nbsp;neither of which give correct pronunciation in English.</p> <p><span style="color: #000000;">During the war, 36,183 units of the Il-2 were produced, and in combination with its successor, the&nbsp;<a title="Ilyushin Il-10" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilyushin_Il-10"><span style="color: #000000;">Ilyushin Il-10</a>, a total of 42,330&nbsp;were built, making it the single most produced military aircraft design in aviation history, as well as one of the&nbsp;<a title="List of most-produced aircraft" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-produced_aircraft"><span style="color: #000000;">most produced piloted aircraft in history</a>&nbsp;along with the American postwar civilian&nbsp;<a title="Cessna 172" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cessna_172"><span style="color: #000000;">Cessna 172</a>&nbsp;and the Soviet Union's own then-contemporary&nbsp;<a title="Polikarpov Po-2" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polikarpov_Po-2"><span style="color: #000000;">Polikarpov Po-2</a>&nbsp;<em>Kukuruznik</em>&nbsp;multipurpose biplane.</p> <p><span style="color: #000000;">To Il-2 pilots, the aircraft was simply the diminutive "Ilyusha". To the soldiers on the ground, it was the "Hunchback", the "Flying Tank" or the "Flying Infantryman". Its postwar&nbsp;<a class="mw-redirect" title="List of NATO reporting names for bombers" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NATO_reporting_names_for_bombers"><span style="color: #000000;">NATO reporting name</a>&nbsp;was "<strong>Bark</strong>".<sup id="cite_ref-Gunston_Russian_p106_6-0" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilyushin_Il-2#cite_note-Gunston_Russian_p106-6"><span style="color: #000000;">]</a></sup>&nbsp;The Il-2 aircraft played a crucial role on the&nbsp;<a title="Eastern Front (World War II)" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Front_(World_War_II)"><span style="color: #000000;">Eastern Front</a>. When factories fell behind on deliveries,&nbsp;<a title="Joseph Stalin" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin"><span style="color: #000000;">Joseph Stalin</a>&nbsp;told the factory managers that the Il-2s were "as essential to the Red Army as air and bread."<sup id="cite_ref-stalinquote_7-0" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilyushin_Il-2#cite_note-stalinquote-7"><br /></a></sup></p> <p><span style="color: #000000;">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" width="99%"> <table style="width: 100%;" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> </tr> </tbody> </table> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <em>&nbsp;</em>

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