IT WAS CREATED TO FIGHT

HE WAS CREATED FOR BATTLEHe 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.

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THE PLANE OF THE TRANSITION PERIOD

PLANE TRANSITIONThe 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.

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WITH A QUICK YAK

THE FASTEST YAKYak-9All 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.

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THE TRADITIONS

Light multipurpose aircraft Yak-18TAsk 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.

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MiG-23: a THIRD-GENERATION FIGHTER

MiG-23: a THIRD-GENERATION FIGHTERIn 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.

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IT ALL STARTED WITH GLIDER

IT ALL STARTED WITH GLIDERIn 1921 pyatnadcatiletnij student Alexander Yakovlev read a book on the history of technology. In one of the chapters talked about the emergence of aviation, there was a model description of the airframe and was given his scheme. And here’s the apartment… turned into a workshop. Smells like glue, the floor littered with shavings and scraps of paper. No games, walks, entertainment. More than a month was built by Alexander of thin pine planks, obtiva them with paper and fastening with nails and glue glider model.

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MILITARY VARIANTS of the Il-12

MILITARY VARIANTS of the Il-12It is natural that interest to the transport plane, superior in its basic parameters of Li-2, has long mastered the air force showed the military. March 11, 1947 issued a decree of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, OKB-240 was instructed to build on the basis of passenger Il-12 and transfer in July 1947, the state tests a troop transport plane with the specified characteristics (see table).

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