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VVS research page

by Massimo Tessitori

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

Latest additions and updates:
An interview with Khvalenskii Stanislav Pavlovich was added on September 3, 2008.
An interview with Vladimir Vasilyevich Titovich was added on August 2, 2008
Photos ot P-39 UTI (real, and model of Plator Kalakulla) were added on May 1, 2008
Profiles and photos of LaGG-3 were added on March 26, 2008

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MiG-3 family		MiG-3 latest update: Models of MiG-3 were added on March 15, 2008
Polikarpov I-15 I-15 bis I-153 family		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 family		Latest updates: I-16 type 28 I-16 type 29 Models of Hasegawa, 1/72 by Massimo Tessitori I-16 of Hobbycraft, 1/48 model by Basil
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 family		Latest updates: Captured and wrecked LaGG-3s 3 profiles and photos were added on March 25, 2008
Lavochkin La-5 family		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 family		Yak-3VK-107A page updated on June 6, 2005 Photos of Yak-3 model of Basil uploaded on June 6, 2005 Photos of Yak-3 model of Mark Brown uploaded on July 8, 2006
Yakovlev Yak-1/7/9 family		Photos of Yak-1 of Pascal Divay were added on May 1, 2007
Ilyushin Il-2 family		A review of Zvezda model, written by Michael Neradkov, was uploaded on June 26, 2006
Ilyushin Il-10 family		A research on the camo of GPW Il-10s was uploaded on December 27, 2006
I-1 (I.L.-400) family		Updated on February 10, 2005 with a scale drawing. Includes a page with I-1 images and history and one with ICM model review and gallery
Ar-2 family		Uploaded on May 6, 2006
Tupolev I-4		Uploaded on September 5, 2006: photos of model of Mark Brown
Lend-lease planes		P-39 of Filatov model kit by Michael Neradkov uploaded on June 1, 2006 Photos ot P-39 UTI and model of Plator Kalakulla were added on May 1, 2008
Pilots		Vladimir Vasilyevich Titovich Interview by Oleg Korytov and Konstantin Chirkin. Uploaded on February 2, 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)