Is this museum which has a unique Polikarpov I-16 UTI ?

No, it’s a standard two-tones dark green Storch, with a swatiska on the tail.
I recorded quite big pictures of this aircraft, but as already said lost it in the HD crash ! I remember the pictures had been taken under a grey sky.

What a beauty in its matte black, stunning !!!

And looking at the engine cowl, I do hope it will inspire some plastic kits producer to make a correct F4U-5.

Thanks Mathias for your quick and extensive answer 🙂
Interesting, a very clever alternate way to cool the engine !

“We use commonsense instead.”

Great, you are lucky to live there, in this beautiful country.

We used to be like that too, in Switzerland, until a few years ago.
Now, it’s almost finished, as our society is getting changed very fast 🙁

P.S. if the owner of this Venom repaints one day his aircraft and still wants to keep a colorful scheme, he should try a “Lindi” 😀

It reminds me of someone saying something about a nation “building its own funeral pyre” !

There are many paradoxes in this discussion.

People defending strongly the RAF actions against Dresden defend it because of a nationalist feeling, which is in reality not very different that what they actually reproach to the Germans of that time.

Also, the argument for bombing Dresden is because the German government of that time was evil (of course, it was, evil), but killing civilians in masses is also by nature an evil action. By the way, Churchill who ordered the Dresden bombings is also the man who organized the gas bombing of Iraki villages, killing this way many civilians too, so it’s not so easy to say “we are the good guys, the others ones are the bad ones”, it’s much more different levels of bad, instead of a clear separation of good and bad.

Towards the end of the war, the winning nations began to realize there were netherless some political problems with the fact of killing civilians without any real clear military reasons. Frankly, one could ask : “why killing civilans on the ground is a war crime, while killing civilians from the air is ok ?” or “arent’ we supposed to be the good guys of the story ?”

Look at this document :