VVS research page
by Massimo Tessitori
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Welcome to the VVS research page. It is devoted to modellistic/historical research and artwork about some planes.

Latest additions and updates:
Photos of the model of Yak3 VK107 by Bert Andermann were uploaded on January 23, 2010
Scale drawings of LaGG-3 of early versions were added on January 23, 2010
(Thanks to Aleksander Ruchkowsky and Pavel Sadovnikov)
The table of paints was updated on January 8, 2010
A table of matches for light blues of humbrol was added on December 5, 2009
A table of paints was added on November 15, 2009
The profile of LaGG-3 silver 71 was added on November 11, 2009
Il-10 page was updated with a new research, new photos and profiles on November 3, 2009.
A profile of MiG-1 was added on October 16, 2009
A page with two-seater hurricanes and the model of Plator Kalakulla was updated  on September 24, 2009
Photos of Yak-9UT model of Bert Andermann were added on July 14, 2009
A walkaround of the I-16 of the museum of Cuatro Vientos, Madrid, was added on April 11, 2009


Colors of Soviet warplanes
Uploaded on November 15, 2009

A table of matches for light blues of Humbrol was added on December 5, 2009

MiG-3 family
MiG-3 latest update:
A profile was added on October 16, 2009
Polikarpov

I-15

I-15 bis

I-153 

Latest updates:

I-15 bis of ICM, 1/72
model by Massimo Tessitori

I-153 of Heller, 1/72
model by Massimo Tessitori
Uploaded on April 8, 2007

Polikarpov 

I-16

Latest updates:

Walkaround on I-16 
of Cuatro Vientos, Madrid

uploaded on April 11, 2009

 

Polikarpov I-17
I-17 latest update: 
many color photos of the TsKB-15 in Chkalow Museum
(copyright: Ekzot aka Sergey) 
were added on April 20, 2005.
Lavochkin LaGG-3
Latest updates: 

scale drawings of early versions
were added on  January 23, 2010

Silver 71 
was added on November 11, 2009

Lavochkin La-5
Latest updates: 
La-5 Valeriy Chkalow
added profiles of Nos. 42, 69, 84 
on December 7, 2006
colorized historical photos
5 images added 
on October 29, 2006 
Yakovlev Yak-3
Photos of the model of  Yak-3VK-107A
of  Bert Andermann 
were uploaded on January 23, 2010
Yakovlev Yak-1/7/9
Photos of Yak-9UT of Bert Andermann were added on July 14, 2009

Photos of Yak-1 of Pascal Divay
were added on May 1, 2007 

 

Ilyushin Il-2

Ilyushin Il-10

Il-10 camouflage during the Great Patrioctic War

Updated on November 3, 2009 
with schemes, photos and profiles

I-1 (I.L.-400)

Tupolev I-4

Page on I-1 updated on February 10, 2005 
 

Model of I-4 of Mark Brown uploaded on September 5, 2006: 

Ar-2

Uploaded on May 6, 2006
Lend-lease planes
Photos of 2-seater Hurricanes
and
Model of Plator Kalakulla
were added on August 16, 2009
and updated on September 24, 2009

Photos ot P-39 UTI 
and model of Plator Kalakulla
were added on May 1, 2008

Pilots
Minin Alexei Semenovich
Interview by Oleg Korytov and Konstantin Chirkin. 
Uploaded on December 23, 2008

Khvalenskii Stanislav Pavlovich
Interview by Oleg Korytov and Konstantin Chirkin. 
Uploaded on September 3, 2008 

links to other sites

 
 
 
 
 

 

 Latest adds: 
wunderwaffe.narod.ru/Mig3/
on February 10, 2005 
http://www.bazyli.com/
on February 20, 2005 
http://www.amyat.narod.ru
on March 30, 2005

This work collects also a lot of photos and drawings from many sources, not always identified and mentioned.
If someone has some rights on the images here reproduced, please email to me and I shall provide to remove or to credit them.
While the historical photos are of public domain (except where otherwise stated), my color profiles and coloured photos are copyrighted.
If someone is interested in any use of them, please email me; higher resolution version is available for printing purposes.
If someone has questions, critiques or corrections, or some further images to show, please email to me.

Massimo Tessitori           massimo.tessitori.nospam@libero.it (remove .nospam)