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Kurt Tankski Ta 183 |
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by Sinuhe Hahn |
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April Fools Day 2006 |
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Major Igor Ivanovich was tired of war. It had been a long hard battle to drive out the German invaders, but it was clear to him that the problem in the Korean Peninsula was going to escalate. If there was to be a new war, he reasoned, then it would have to be fought with new weapons, not with those they had used in the great patriotic war. Having being fortunate enough to test the new Kurt Tankski Ta 183 from the Mikosrki Design Bureau, he was convinced that this was the aircraft that was needed. In a secret mission, Major Ivanovich and the Mikorski team set out to test the new Tankski in combat, even though it was still wearing its high visibility day-glo orange trial markings. As fortune would have it, the weather was bad, as it inevitably was during the harsh winter, and Major Ivanovich was able to use the thick cloud layer to avoid drawing attention to his new aircraft. Fortune smiled on him, for in a gap in the clouds he spotted a pair of enemy aircraft; a twin boom Supermarine Flitzer and a twin jet North American F-262. In a flash he swooped down and destroyed both with his potent 30mm cannons. As the Tankski roared into the heavens again, he could see two parachutes floating down. The Tankski had scored 2 kills on its first outing. Sinuhe
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Photos and text © by Sinuhe Hahn
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