The sole airworthy IL-2 Shturmovik in the world, which is part of Paul Allen’s Flying Heritage Collection, made its maiden flight since its arrival in the United States. The pilot for the flight was Steve Hinton.
Video by Jason R. Fortenbacher.
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Tom Bass
August 25, 2012 at 3:45 AM (UTC 2) Link to this comment
I saw them doing an engine run up on this bird back in May when I visited the Collection. Was awesome!