TRAINING AIRCRAFT UT-1. Scale model 1:33.
UT-1 (air-14) – small size (wing area only 8.3 m2) training single pilot with the airplane had an open cockpit. The plane was created as a transition with double the training speed of a monoplane and as a training for fighter pilots. The aircraft passed state tests in 1936 with the engine M-11 100 HP In the report of the NII VVS was marked by the excellent maneuverability of the aircraft, good performance figures and ease of maintenance. The aircraft remained strict in piloting, that made it closer to the characteristics of I-16.
The Russo-Baltic wagon factory (RBVZ) became the leader of Russian automobile industry in the early XX century. Founded in 1874 in Riga, is a large engineering company produced steam and horse threshing machines, seeders, plows, stationary oil and kerosene combustion engines, passenger and freight cars, trams, artillery limbers, and, later, cars and airplanes designed by I. I. Sikorsky. By 1912 the territory of the company, has a capital of 9.6 million rubles, was already 20 acres, and fifty shops of the plant worked 553 of the machine, which worked 4,000 people.
Executive cars, leading descended from the Royal gilded carriage ride with the “power plant” of about a dozen horses in harness, appeared at the beginning of the XX century. And they have become quite reliable and safe -the monarchs, the highest state officials, as well as “owners of factories, Newspapers, steamships” the race began to order entered suddenly in Vogue cars-limousines.
