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The Polikarpov I-153 Chaika (Russian Чайка, "gull") is a late 1930s Soviet sesquiplane fighter. Developed from the I-15 with a retractable undercarriage, the I-153 fought in the Soviet-Japanese combats in Mongolia and was one of the major Soviet fighter types in the early years of the Second World War. Three I-153s are still in flying ...
The Polikarpov I-15 (Russian: И-15) was a Soviet biplane fighter aircraft of the 1930s. Nicknamed Chaika (Russian: Чайка, "gull") because of its gulled upper wings, [2] [3] it was operated in large numbers by the Soviet Air Force, and together with the Polikarpov I-16 monoplane, was one of the standard fighters of the Spanish Republicans during the Spanish Civil War, where it was called ...
I-15 Chaika biplane fighter, 1933; I-16 fighter, 1933; I-15-2/I-152 (I-15bis) prototype modernized version of I-15, 1938; I-15-3/I-153 Chaika biplane fighter; I-17 fighter prototype, 1934; I-180 prototype fighter developed from the I-16, 1938; I-185 prototype fighter developed from the I-180, 1941; I-190 biplane fighter prototype developed from ...
In 1939 he completed work on the I-153. In 1939 he was ordered to make a trip to Nazi Germany . In his absence, his plant director and chief engineer, along with design engineer Mikhail Gurevich put forth a proposal for a new fighter, the I-200 , and received approval to create a new Design Bureau under the leadership of Artem Mikoyan , whose ...
This list of the military aircraft of the Soviet Union and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) includes experimental, prototypes, and operational types regardless of era. It also includes both native Soviet designs, Soviet-produced copies of foreign designs, and foreign-produced aircraft that served in the military of the Union of ...
A Delta aircraft clipped the tail of another plane Tuesday morning at an Atlanta airport. The collision happened just after 10 a.m. at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport while Delta ...
The 153rd and 28th Guards IAPs were credited with the destruction of 511 German aircraft during the war, mostly in air battles between 1943 and 1945. The regiment lost 127 aircraft during the war: 28 I-153, seven I-16, ten MiG-3, 80 Airacobras, one UTI-4, and one U-2. 94 of these losses occurred during combat.
As a result, the two have been stuck there for 153 days. ... Health concerns started to grow after new photos of two NASA astronauts stranded in space were released. Image credits: Joe Raedle / Getty.