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Whats this?

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Tailslide Pilot	posted 05-25- 02:31 AM Working on updating the yak cockpit. Whats this thing behind the pilot's head? Could it be some kind of mounting for an armour plate to protect the head? I don't have any clear photographs of it but I think this is reasonably close: ------------------ Patch It! TS Aircombat IP: Logged
Yardstick Pilot	posted 05-25- 06:04 AM Like the 109 the latter versions of the Yak were fitted with an armoured glass plate to protect the pilots head and shoulders. That is what you are highlighting. ------------------ Yardstick painted this IP: Logged
Tailslide Pilot	posted 05-25- 06:12 AM Thanks! I'll add some tinting or reflections to that bit. Thats not a highlight though its the antenna.. as far as I can tell the one end goes in an opening in the back of the canopy glass then runs down to the radio behind the pilot. TS IP: Logged
Jerry Pilot	posted 05-25- 11:14 AM Tail, the Yak is such a "sweet" plane already. An updated cockpit will be "kick-ass". Thanks heaps. Jerry IP: Logged
nealg Pilot	posted 05-25- 12:38 PM I think it was there for the Russian ' temperament'. If the pilot missed a shot, he had to slam his head backwards 10 times into the metal bar as punishment. ------------------ nealg=FC= IP: Logged
Gunner Pilot	posted 05-25- 01:32 PM LOL! nealg ------------------ (Kill'em All, Sort'em out Later ) -=BAB=- Gunner IP: Logged

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