Il-2 full glass cockpit

[DLinevitch]

Edited November 20, 2021 by DLinevitch

[Massimo Tessitori]

Very interesting. It should be a plane built in the first half of 1941.  But the rounded vane behind it is from the factory or made for a conversion to twoseater?

Regards

Massimo

[DLinevitch]

2 hours ago, Massimo Tessitori said:

Very interesting. It should be a plane built in the first half of 1941.  But the rounded vane behind it is from the factory or made for a conversion to twoseater?

Regards

Massimo

Serial

[Massimo Tessitori]

Serial what? Il-2s built before the war had transparent rear canopy and one piece armorglass behind the pilot, later ones had metallic one and armour with two windows behind the pilot. I don't know the exact day when they changed. 

[DLinevitch]

5 hours ago, Massimo Tessitori said:

Serial what? Il-2s built before the war had transparent rear canopy and one piece armorglass behind the pilot, later ones had metallic one and armour with two windows behind the pilot. I don't know the exact day when they changed. 

Here is a later single seater from Kulong, which in Novosibirsk is now being restored to flight condition

Edited November 22, 2021 by DLinevitch

[Massimo Tessitori]

Interesting. The rear opening is curved in the same way.

[DLinevitch]

1 hour ago, Massimo Tessitori said:

Interesting. The rear opening is curved in the same way.

No one will answer you why there is such a structure, no one has seen drawings for single seaters, it is not even known whether it survived

Edited November 22, 2021 by DLinevitch

[Massimo Tessitori]

I wonder if the possibility of refitting a gunner's position was previded before building. Or maybe it was preserved from the twoseater prototype.