Rata is needed because....

[150GCT_Veltro]

...considering the amazing flight feeling of this sim, an open canopy aircraft would be a dream to fly. I would say the same for the italian Macchi 200 for the axis side.

 

I love this game every day more and more, and it can only improve in the next months.

 

[Finkeren]

You know, you could just fly with an open cockpit, as many VVS pilots did.

 

I think we need the I-16 because... Hell, it's the friggin' I-16!!!!

[SYN_DerHesse70]

...considering the amazing flight feeling of this sim, an open canopy aircraft would be a dream to fly. I would say the same for the italian Macchi 200 for the axis side.

 

I love this game every day more and more, and it can only improve in the next months.

Try ROF!

[150GCT_Veltro]

We need this feature also for the 109 slide window. This is somenthing missed in the game, and i don't know why they did not have coded/modelled it. These kinde of features provide a lot of more immersion.

Edited October 24, 2014 by 150GCT_Veltro

[6./ZG26_5tuka]

We also need biplanes for sure Especially looking forward to the Hs 123

[150GCT_Veltro]

Try ROF!

I've RoF, don't worry.

[Pringliano]

Yeah! Rata, we like that around here :-)    ( any portuguese speaking guy around   )

Edited October 24, 2014 by jcomm

[jaydee]

...considering the amazing flight feeling of this sim, an open canopy aircraft would be a dream to fly. I would say the same for the italian Macchi 200 for the axis side.

 

I love this game every day more and more, and it can only improve in the next months.

First we need FMB, Multiplay , Triple Screen Support, adjustable Graphics and unlocks to be gone. I don't want any more Planes/Maps etc. Until these BASIC gaming issues have been sorted. I don't want a Rata that I can ONLY fly in QMB. ...That's only my humble opinion. ~S~

[III/JG53Frankyboy]

the pilots who flew this crate didnt called it Rata :D

[Finkeren]

the pilots who flew this crate didnt called it Rata :D

Nope. "Rata" was the Spanish nationalists' nickname for it. The Reublicans called it "Mosca" (which is actually almost worse IMHO)

 

The Soviet pilots called it Itshak (Donkey) man that plane just couldn't get a nice nickname I can't remember what the Finns called it, but I seem to remember, that it was something slightly more affectionate.

Edited October 24, 2014 by Finkeren

[150GCT_Veltro]

First we need FMB, Multiplay , Triple Screen Support, adjustable Graphics and unlocks to be gone. I don't want any more Planes/Maps etc. Until these BASIC gaming issues have been sorted. I don't want a Rata that I can ONLY fly in QMB. ...That's only my humble opinion. ~S~

 

Again, here we go.....

 

People who works on 3D, cockpit, and FM is not the same who works on netcode, FMB, ecc. ecc....

 

[216th_Peterla]

_{Whatever name they give to the plane, it will be awesome to have it ingame.}

[150GCT_Veltro]

the pilots who flew this crate didnt called it Rata :D

 

Franky, it's and will be always the Rata for us.

 

Shoot down them all.

[LLv26_Hartman]

In Finland it was also called Rata.

[310_cibule]

Nope. "Rata" was the Spanish nationalists' nickname for it. The Reublicans called it "Mosca" (which is actually almost worse IMHO)

 

I thought Mosca means a little fly in Spanish. Doesn't sound that bad to me ;-) 

[Finkeren]

In Finland it was also called Rata.

Really, I thought I had read something else.

 

EDIT: Wikipedia to the rescue: Apparently the Finns also called it "Siipiorava" (Flying Squirrel) which sounds kinda cute

I thought Mosca means a little fly in Spanish. Doesn't sound that bad to me ;-)

Rats make cute pets. Flies are just supremely annoying Edited October 24, 2014 by Finkeren

[LLv26_Hartman]

Some did call it also as "flying squirrel" but that name wasn't used so commonly as Rata among the pilots.

[LLv34_Flanker]

S!

 

 I-153 Tchaika was called "Tsaikka" and most sources, as Hartman worte above, relate I-16 simply as Rata. P39 was called "Keinutuoli" (Rocking chair) because of the cannon recoil making it rock forth and back. When the first LaGG's and Migs became apparent, those were simply called "Pitkänokkaiset koneet" (Pointy nosed planes) before they were porperly ID's. Most names given were in an easy form to remember, to quickly associate the pilot with the plane in question.

[Finkeren]

Would make sense, since "Rata" was used by the Luftwaffe (carried over from Legion Condor) and the Finns borrowed a lot of that vocabulary.

[310_cibule]

Rats make cute pets. Flies are just supremely annoying

;-)

[VonMarts]

Yeah! Rata, we like that around here :-)    ( any portuguese speaking guy around   )

Eu! também vivo na ilha...Caniço 

[bivalov]

The Soviet pilots called it Itshak (Donkey) man that plane just couldn't get a nice nickname

hey, if you love your "ишак", you call him "ишачок"...

 

 

and i heard that japanese pilots called I-16 - "gadfly" ("abu").

[Feathered_IV]

Were there many I-16 units at Stalingrad. Hope so if only for our sakes.

[BeastyBaiter]

The I-16 was pretty much confirmed as one of the first addon planes months back. I wouldn't be surprised if we saw a WIP screenshot or announcement on it in the next month. In any case, it should be a blast to fly. I'd love an I-153 as well. RoF biplanes are all fine and great, but that very last generation of open cockpit monoplanes and advanced biplanes were really something special imho.

[Dakpilot]

Dev diary 83 on Russian forum has some interesting info  more recent posts

 

Cheers Dakpilot

Edited October 24, 2014 by Dakpilot

[Feathered_IV]

I-153 would be amazing. That was the aircraft I spend the most time in with the original Il-2 series. God knows how many hundreds of hours. Spent a year redoing the cockpit when the mods came out too.

[Brano]

I thought Mosca means a little fly in Spanish. Doesn't sound that bad to me ;-) 

It sounds nice until the moment it swims in your freshly served beer

[marklar]

In Finland it was also called Rata.

 

Wiki says:

The Finnish nickname for I-16 was Siipiorava ("Flying Squirrel")

Edited October 24, 2014 by marklar

[Brano]

Were there many I-16 units at Stalingrad. Hope so if only for our sakes.

None in 8th Air Army of Stalingrad Front,AFAIK.But maybe some in Don Front or South-West Front.

[sallee]

I thought Mosca means a little fly in Spanish. Doesn't sound that bad to me ;-) 

Spanish Fly....doesn't sound that good to me.

I think we need the I-16, in my considered opinion, because I want it I want I want I want it  I want it I want I want I want it.

[6high]

Nope. "Rata" was the Spanish nationalists' nickname for it. The Reublicans called it "Mosca" (which is actually almost worse IMHO)

 

The Soviet pilots called it Itshak (Donkey) man that plane just couldn't get a nice nickname I can't remember what the Finns called it, but I seem to remember, that it was something slightly more affectionate.

Well Donkey or little fly..that is actually quite cute..compared to the portugese meaning of Rata, which i know from my portugese coworkers on the construction site

And yes, i`ll have one (ingame i mean)

[Lusekofte]

Some did call it also as "flying squirrel" but that name wasn't used so commonly as Rata among the pilots.

 

Many scandinavians fought in the SCV and many Finns fought there , in both sides. Finland had a very hard neighbor relationship with USSR and that brought with it anti communism. So I guess they picked it up in Spain

[310_cibule]

Spanish Fly....doesn't sound that good to me.

 

Well I have nothing against sex ;-) http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=spanish%20fly

[LLv34_Flanker]

S!

 

 The "Rata" was mostlikely picked from international sources. Easy to memorize and everyone knew the plane. Messerschmitts were called "Mersu" (nickname for Mercedes Benz), but was more like an abbreviation of Messerchmitt. Brewsters were called "Pylly-Valtteri"(Butt-Walther), straight from the abbreviation of BW(Brewster) or "Taivaan helmi"(Pearl of the sky) due it's good characteristics. List goes on, but you get the idea.

[Finkeren]

Well I have nothing against sex ;-) http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=spanish%20fly

Spanish Fly is toxic as hell.

[bivalov]

None in 8th Air Army of Stalingrad Front,AFAIK.But maybe some in Don Front or South-West Front.

 

definately, in 102 IAD PVO - http://allaces.ru/cgi-bin/s2.cgi/sssr/struct/d/iad102.dat - and, most likely, in 655 SAP/932 SAP.

 

PS oh, forget, plus several UTI-4 exactly in 8 VA.

Edited October 24, 2014 by bivalov

[Trooper117]

To be honest, the only Russian planes I'd really enjoy flying (apart from the IL2) are the early Polikarpov fighters... so maybe a Barbarossa type addon would get my enjoyment level for flying on the eastern front up a notch!

[Brano]

There are I15bis,I153 and Yak1 mentioned in that report of 102. IAD PVO.But quite an impressive score from july to sept 42 they got 318 destroyed enemies credited.

 

For 655 SAP there is info that it has been equipped with sturmoviks from april 1942 and was transferred into 8th VA VVS of Stalingrad Front in august 1942.But no I 16 mentioned in that source.

 

Same for 932.SAP. But they could have some I16s,maybe as personal planes of commanders? UTI4,of course,for training and liaisoning duties