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The Lavochkin La-9 (NATO reporting name Fritz) was a Soviet fighter aircraft produced shortly after World War II. It was one of the last piston engined fighters to be produced before the widespread adoption of the jet engine .
LA 9, LA-9, La-9, LA9 or La9 may refer to: . Lavochkin La-9, a Cold War-era Soviet fighter aircraft; Louisiana Highway 9, a north–south road in northern Louisiana; Louisiana's 9th State Senate district, a state senate district representing the Jefferson Parish city of Metairie, and incorporating smaller parts of Jefferson and Uptown New Orleans
The Lavochkin La-5 (Лавочкин Ла-5) was a Soviet fighter aircraft of World War II. It was a development and refinement of the LaGG-3 , replacing the earlier model's inline engine with the much more powerful Shvetsov ASh-82 radial engine .
She's a fighter pilot; I'm a fighter pilot." Heather Penney planned to aim for the Boeing 757's tail while Col. Marc Sasseville would go for the cockpit, she told the Post.
The Lavochkin La-7 (Russian: Лавочкин Ла-7; NATO reporting name: Fin) [2] was a piston-engined single-seat Soviet fighter aircraft developed during World War II by the Lavochkin Design Bureau. It was a development and refinement of the Lavochkin La-5, and the last in a family of aircraft that had begun with the LaGG-1 in 1938.
At the end of the war, on 22 March 1945, Lieutenant L.I. Sivko from 812th IAP achieved an air victory against a Messerschmitt Me 262 jet fighter, but he was killed soon afterward by another Me 262, probably piloted by Franz Schall, a top-scoring Me 262 pilot. [13] Fighter units with this aircraft suffered lower losses than average.
A United States pilot who disappeared while conducting a spy mission during the Vietnam War has finally been accounted for, military officials said Tuesday. U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Donald W ...
The Lavochkin La-11 (NATO reporting name Fang) was an early post-World War II Soviet long-range piston-engined fighter aircraft.The design was essentially that of a Lavochkin La-9 with additional fuel tanks and the deletion of one of the four 23 mm Nudelman-Suranov NS-23 cannons.