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November 25, 1943 near Murmansk, 16 IL-2 attack aircraft from the 46th assault aviation regiment of the Northern Fleet Air Force, together with the Pe-2 bombers, engaged an air battle with 25 Messerschmitt Bf.109 fighters over enemy territory.
This year, an attack aircraft of the Great Patriotic War Il-2 will rise to the sky. The UAC enterprises have repeatedly reconstructed legendary aircraft, but for the first time in the history of the corporation the machine of the war times - thanks to the joint project with the "Victory Victory Memorial" foundation - will not only be recreated, but will also be able to rise to the sky.
November 25, 1943 near Murmansk, 16 IL-2 attack aircraft from the 46th assault aviation regiment of the Northern Fleet Air Force, together with the Pe-2 bombers, engaged an air battle with 25 Messerschmitt Bf.109 fighters over enemy territory.
Sturmovik commander Valentin Skopintsev, for whom it was only the third combat sortie, and the gunner Vladimir Humenniy (second combat sortie) was shot down. The airplane was denied rifle and cannon armament. The crew could only drop bombs on the enemy, lie down on the return course and soon sit "on the belly" on the ice of Lake Krivoye, near its airfield. Skopintsev got out of the cab and pulled out a wounded comrade, the plane later sank. In that November battle, the crew suppressed one enemy antiaircraft gun and fought off the attacking "sugar". This IL-2 and found divers in 2011 at a depth of 20 m.
In 2015, the Winged Victory Memory Foundation raised a historic plane from the bottom of the lake and sent it for restoration to Novosibirsk, to the Aviastavratsii workshops and the Siberian Aviation Scientific Research Institute. SA Chaplygin.
At the same time, the UAC and Ilyushin agreed to finance most of the restoration work for the Il-2. This year, the "flying tank" will first rise into the air.
"Reconstruction lasted about a year," says Boris Osiatinsky, president of the Winged Victory Memory Foundation. "About 60% of the details were recovered." This is the second Il-2 ground attack aircraft, which is being restored by the fund. In total for its history the foundation has restored about 20 combat historical aircraft that took part in the Great Patriotic War.
Restoration of the cabin and engine compartment.
"Il-2 is the first historical legendary machine that we will raise in the sky in conjunction with the" Victory Memory Victory "fund and which will be part of the" Russian National Collection ", said Sergey Gerasimov, the UAC vice-president for state aviation of special purpose. "By giving a second life to these aircraft, we not only pay tribute to the heroic past of our people, but also realize the responsibility that lies with us all for the revival of domestic aviation."
"The legendary Il-2 attack aircraft, the most massive aircraft in the history of world aviation, is rightfully the same symbol of the Great Victory, as, for example, the T-34 tank or the Katyusha multiple rocket fire system. We are proud of this glorious landmark in the history of our design office, "says Ilyushin general director Sergei Velmogkin. - It is planned that the only IL-2 ground attack aircraft restored to the state of flight will be demonstrated in the air on air shows and aviation holidays for the purpose of military-patriotic education of the youth, the popularization of Il-I aircraft, the Russian aviation industry, the Russian Aerospace Forces Federation ".
Anglo-Saxons are the winners ?!
Almost any American or English teenager will tell you with confidence that the air force of their countries played a decisive role in the victory over fascism and the German Luftwaffe. The whole matter is not at all in the propaganda machine of the United States or Britain. To such things, students are relatively cool. And it's about tens or even hundreds of airshows - big and small, regularly brought by the winning countries. "When a child sees in the sky and on the ground, say, Aircobra or Hurricane planes with distinctive signs of their country, elementary questions to history become less," says Boris Osiatinsky, the founder of the "Victory Memory Victory" foundation.
For today in the asset of the fund - more than 20 aircraft restored to airworthiness. Previously, enthusiasts found their own means. Part of the money was paid by collectors. For example, the first IL-2 attack aircraft took off due to the target financing of American billionaire Paul Allen (Paul Allen) - co-founder of Microsoft, as well as financier of the first private spacecraft SpaceShipOne.
"Messer" in the history of Russian restoration
The creator of the fund "The Victory Memory of Victory" Boris Osiatinsky got into the restoration almost by accident. A physicist by training, he got a job as a director in the Gelendzhik Museum (in the late 1980s it was easier to get an apartment). Somehow the sailors picked up the Messerschmitt, shot down by Soviet pilots and drove him to the museum. In the city committee of the CPSU there were doubts about the expediency of installing a fascist "vulture" in the Soviet museum. However, the find aroused great interest among real veterans of the war: after the excursions, the victorious warriors did not want to leave it.
Some, apparently, retired pilots, recalled the scenes of aerial combat, actively gesticulating. Although later the German aircraft disappeared without due conservation and reconstruction, Boris Osiatinsky created one of the largest collection of aircraft in Europe, the exhibits of which are stored in the hangars of the LII them. M. M. Gromov.
Volunteers and wings
The main work on the restoration of historical machines at the enterprises of the UAC is conducted by volunteers. "On the planes of Andrei Nikolayevich Tupolev, the pilots installed not one world record. It's nice to realize that you are making a small contribution to the preservation of the history of our aviation, "says the head of the department, the head of the team of the Tupolev company, volunteer Alexei Fadyushin. "After all, the past is the beginning of the present, the future is impossible without the past."
Over the past two years, the company Tupolev has been engaged in the restoration of several aircraft - it helped the Museum of Aviation in Monino with the restoration of such vehicles as Tu-144, Tu-16, Tu-22 and ANT-25.
In addition, two historical monuments were reconstructed. "Last year, we opened a monument to the Tu-104, in this we are going to go to Kimry for restoration of the Tu-124," says the head of the social programs department Kirill Komarov. The monument to the first Soviet jet passenger Tu-104 aircraft stands today in the street of the Motor-builders in Rybinsk. And the first domestic jet passenger airliner for airlines of short length Tu-124 is installed on a pedestal on the bank of the Volga in the city of Kimry, in the native land of Andrei Nikolaevich Tupolev, at the very beginning of the street bearing the name of the legendary designer.
Most of the activity of volunteers - groups of 15-20 people - is associated with simple, but very necessary for the preservation of old aircraft works - washing, painting, repair of hatches and plating. But more complex restoration works are carried out to restore the lost elements of the liners. "Often in the restoration work involved designers and staff of the mock-shop, - says the adviser to the president of the company" Tupolev "Alexander Zatuchny. "They help in the search and restoration of drawings of machines and their individual parts."
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