A couple of visual references I find useful to get an idea of what it meant to fly a Po-2:
586th flew this: http://ram-home.com/ram-old/yak-1-gor1p129-1.jpg
http://www.airwargame.com/upload/image/render/Yak-1b_03.jpg
587th flew this: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Petlyakov_Pe-2_at_Poltava,_Russia.jpg
http://img.wp.scn.ru/camms/ar/265/pics/1_13.jpg
588th flew this: http://www.hans-egebo.dk/images/po2-2.gif
Thanks, so interesting.
…except without the benefit of that heavy, rear-firing machine gun.
Another one, without the machine gun and with three real Po-2 flying: http://img.wp.scn.ru/camms/ar/248/pics/1_o_5.jpg
I created a file with these images, for easy printing and referencing: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ohyDcUdcBnze8Jln8RS4Zsz1uuuZtpHItolZEihC46o/edit?usp=sharing.