Smirnov (or SmirnoFF) - the same the well-known common Russian surname as Smith or Johnson in UK or in the United States.
I'm sorry that you associate it only with the surname of the producer of vodka (but I'm not surprised).
I love this plane, on one of my cars it was painted by airbrush ;)
By the way, this Dakota was named after the Russian pilot Ivan Smirnov, ace of the First World War, who later worked as a DC-3 pilot in KLM.
A man of incredible fate, he is little known in Russia now but he is a hero in Holland.
Yes, sorry Brett... now I understand what you mean. I slept little and write from the phone at the hotel so I did not understand at once)))
Yes, of course, this jacket must live the cockpit.
Unfortunately I fly in a shirt )))
I highly recommend ... Excellent collection in excellent condition. Fine people work there, there are a lot of old aviators in the museum staff who remember the good old days.
Near museum, on Lelystad airport the guys from the Special Air Service are based, with whom you can fly their Cessna, if...
Brett, this place is much closer to you than to me :)
A beautiful place, an excellent museum (in my personal opinion - the second in the world after the USAF museum in Dayton OH). They have two Dakota and one DC-2, and another hundred planes.
In addition, you can fly 172 there ...
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