{"id":22551,"date":"2018-07-27T11:20:07","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T18:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=22551"},"modified":"2023-01-31T17:36:42","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T00:36:42","slug":"air-minded-il-2-restoration-photoblog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=22551","title":{"rendered":"Air-Minded: IL-2 Restoration Photoblog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Work continues on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pimaair.org\">Pima Air &amp; Space Museum&#8217;s<\/a> IL-2 Shturmovik. The fuselage is largely finished, the engine is in, the wings have been fabricated from original blueprints&nbsp;and are awaiting installation, and the propeller, damaged when the Shturmovik&#8217;s pilot crash-landed on a frozen lake near the Russian village of Zamejie on January 28, 1944,&nbsp;is being hammered back into shape.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a title=\"32937240_1769390126432656_7981782053408473088_o\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/halfmind\/42772031805\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/852\/42772031805_ac0b17a36e_z.jpg\" alt=\"32937240_1769390126432656_7981782053408473088_o\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mikulin AM-38F engine installed (photo: PASM)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a title=\"35228527_1797730483598620_28905267341033472_n\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/halfmind\/29804975088\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/940\/29804975088_1c375c329e_z.jpg\" alt=\"35228527_1797730483598620_28905267341033472_n\" width=\"640\" height=\"417\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">IL-2 completed fuselage (photo: PASM)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a title=\"IMG_2471\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/halfmind\/25408682294\/in\/album-72157666185898122\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1541\/25408682294_497b0d7815_z.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2471\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">IL-2 prop blades as recovered (photo: Paul Woodford)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a title=\"14222332_1187248641334315_1426201185138472749_n\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/halfmind\/28785685967\/in\/album-72157666185898122\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/914\/28785685967_24a631a993_z.jpg\" alt=\"14222332_1187248641334315_1426201185138472749_n\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">IL-2 prop blade being straightened (photo: PASM)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a title=\"14330036_1193240637401782_3354224145078061112_n\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/halfmind\/43674382511\/in\/album-72157666185898122\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/942\/43674382511_45ee7dcd96_z.jpg\" alt=\"14330036_1193240637401782_3354224145078061112_n\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">IL-2 prop blades on hub (photo: PASM)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If Wikipedia is correct, when PASM&#8217;s IL-2 is restored it will be one of only ten on display worldwide (out of over 36,000 built during WWII, making the IL-2 the most-produced aircraft in history).<\/p>\n\n\n<p><em>\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?page_id=14450\"><strong> back to the Air-Minded Index<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Work continues on Pima Air &amp; Space Museum&#8217;s IL-2 Shturmovik. The fuselage is largely finished, the engine is in, the wings have been fabricated from original blueprints&nbsp;and are awaiting installation, and the propeller, damaged when the Shturmovik&#8217;s pilot crash-landed on a frozen lake near the Russian village of Zamejie on January 28, 1944,&nbsp;is being hammered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1960,3,64,555,14],"tags":[2578,523,2579,2577],"class_list":["post-22551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-minded","category-flying","category-history","category-local-color","category-military","tag-il-2","tag-pima-air-space-museum","tag-restoration","tag-shturmovik"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22551"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32666,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22551\/revisions\/32666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}