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Flying boat MDR-6. Flying boat I. V. Chetverikova has been used in our country in almost all fleets. The beginning of the great Patriotic war in the Baltic fleet, there were 10 new seaplane entered service in the 15th reconnaissance regiment of the sea in the 19th and the 22nd squadrons. By June 22, the staff have mastered the new seaplanes and was not ready for their practical use. The fighting crews of Th-2 started only in the second half of July At this time the aircraft was based at Tallinn. The main task entrusted to the crews of the flying boats, began to conduct reconnaissance in the Central and southern basins in the Baltic sea for the same purpose, the aircraft flew to the coast of Finland.
The carrier rocket “Cyclone-3”. Early 60-ies of the last century was marked not only by competition in space between the USA and the USSR, but a nuclear arms race. The first examples of Intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM), the Atlas in the US and R-7 in the USSR did not have a high readiness for use as an oxidizing agent with a low boiling liquid oxygen. The military of both countries felt the need to be armed with missiles that could be in constant readiness.
The experimental carrier-based fighter XF5U-1. In the 1940s, the American engineer Charles Zimmerman has created a unique aircraft aerodynamic configuration, which still continues to surprise not only for its unusual appearance, but also performance For their unique appearance, he has received numerous nicknames, among them such as “Flying parachute”, the “Flying pancake” and “Skimmer Zimmerman” Modern historians of aviation klassificeret this aircraft as the first fighter short takeoff and landing.
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He was born in the terrible days of August, forty-one. It was created for combat and was ready to fight. Fast, agile, and with powerful small arms and rocket weapons, finally, sheltered armor — that was this aircraft, attack with the index of the su-6, logical conclusion of a long search KB Pavel Osipovich Sukhoi.
The period between the two world wars represents a considerable interest to historians of technology, and first equipment of aviation. The aircraft of this time, the construction of which has absorbed the existing scientific, technical and technological achievements, remained nevertheless the bearers of the greatest characteristics of the airplanes of the First world war.
All fighter planes, created in OKB A. S. Yakovlev in the years of the great Patriotic war, represent a further development of the Yak-1. Continuous improvement of this machine led to the emergence of “sub-species”, which closed the Yak-9U with the engine VK-107A.
Flight tests of the “Skimmer Zimmerman” was still in full swing, and BuAir has developed a specification for carrier-based fighter based on this unusual aircraft. In September received an order for two prototypes of the fighter.
Ask the pilots of the postwar era, the Canon of the plane, they learned the alphabet flying up in the skies first with the instructor and then independently. “Yak-18”, — unanimously they will answer. It is at this is a reliable and safe single-engine monoplane opened their way into aviation Gagarin, today’s supersonic test machines, aces of the air force and the commanders of multi-seat aircraft of Aeroflot.
In July 1967 a new Moscow Domodedovo airport held a Grand air show dedicated to the fiftieth anniversary of the Oct. He is Pro-plagued an unforgettable impression on thousands of spectators: the parade was attended by the aircraft for various purposes, the existence of many of them in the West only became known after their show in Domodedovo.