🇭🇺 The Soviet DC-3 with Attitude! Lisunov Li-2 Tour at Szolnok Museum
Video from the channel VolshebNik Scale Modeling Studio about Douglas DC-3, linked on its Above Ten Thousand entry. Duration: 9:54. Language: English. Video type: Onboard.
What it covers
Exterior and interior tour of the Lisunov Li-2T on display at the aviation museum in Szolnok, Hungary. There are shots from the tower and from a drone, as well as the passenger cabin and the cockpit.
Details shown
The cockpit is fully analogue and has no autopilot. The passenger cabin seats 21 people and has an emergency exit. The aerial shots and the drone shots underneath the wings show surface damage, patches, faded paint, hatches, panel lines and rivets, and the landing gear wells, as a reference for modelers.
Context
In 1939 the DC-3 was turned in Moscow into the PS-84 with over 1,200 modifications: metric fasteners, reinforced structure and new radial engines. In 1942 it was named Li-2 after the engineer Lisunov, who led the project. The figures given are about 29 m wingspan, nearly 20 m length, 11.5 t maximum takeoff weight and 2.5 t payload. It cruises at 230 km/h, has a range of over 2,000 km and takes off in 420 m with two ASh-62IR engines of up to 1,000 hp. In 1940 Aeroflot used it to Berlin and Stockholm. During the war it carried supplies, paratroopers and bombs. In Hungary it was the backbone of the joint airline Maszovlet and flew in Malév colours until 1961. This example, number 301, entered the Hungarian People's Army in 1952 and later flew with Malév as HA-LIS. It arrived in Szolnok in 2006.