I.A.R. 80B, nr.229 & I.A.R. 80, nr.19 are flown from Brașov I.A.R. factory to Târgșorul Nou airfield by I.A.R. factory pilots Dipl.-Eng. Nicolae Florescu (nr.229) and Lt. Av. Mihail Iliescu (nr.229), July of 1942. The author of this color photo is Slt. Av. (r) Sorin Tulea (1915-2005), highly decorated He 111 pilot, WIA in 1944 while bombing soviet positions on Moldavian front (http://www.worldwar2.ro/arr/?article=741). The newly installed communist regime ”rewarded” him with 16 years in…
