
THE LEGENDARY S-56

The plane was developed at the request of the Polish air force jet training plane. It was the first jet car built in Poland. Work began in 1957, the First prototype with a British engine, the Armstrong first flew on 5 February 1960, the Following two prototypes had the engine “Viper”.
The end of the First world war and the subsequent Washington agreement significantly changed the situation in world shipbuilding. The moratorium on new capital ships led to the fact that in the hierarchy of the military fleets of space battleships in some way took heavy cruisers, and the cruisers — destroyers. This sposobstvoval and objective process of evolution of the torpedo class ships. The destroyers and especially the leaders by the time it is grown — both in size and in a circle of solved tasks — until the armored cruisers of twenty years ago. For many countries in the “second tier” that the destroyers were the biggest and powerful fighting units in their fleets.
Designing a training jet aircraft Yak-30 began in the Yakovlev design Bureau in 1957, In 1960 it was built two prototypes, which were tested from may 1960 to March 1961, there were performed 82 flight a total duration of 43 hours 36 mins No difficulties in the operation of the airplane and engine did not arise.
The first silhouettes of enemy ships spotted from the bridge of the leader of “Baku”. The German convoy was abeam of the Norwegian town of vardø was roughly 70 cables. The leader and went after him in the Wake of the destroyer “Reasonable” has dramatically increased the speed. When the enemy was little more than 26 cables, they opened fire with their 130 mm guns. At the same time the “Baku” gave chetyrehstolpnyj salvo (the second unit from the torpedoman, unfortunately, not fired).
The Grumman F6F HELLCAT. Analysis of the results of air combat in South-East Asia with the participation of the new Japanese high-speed fighters allowed American experts to draw a conclusion about necessity of creation in the US carrier-based fighters with higher performance. Orders to create prototypes were issued to multiple firms.
Strategic bomber b-52 STRATOFORTRESS. Contest project of a new reagent tion of the strategic bomber to replace the CONVAIR piston-IN-36 were announced, the U.S. air force in 1946. Despite the fact that some high-ranking air force officers did not believe in the possibility of the construction of a heavy jet with a range of over 13,000 km, company Boeing, Convair and Douglas enthusiastically set to work.