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The Su-9 was unarmed and was directed to ram the U-2. One ramming attempt was made, but the Su-9 missed the U-2 due to the significant difference in the speed of the two planes. Due to the Su-9's lack of fuel, the pilot elected to break away from the U-2 and continue with the original flight plan.
Another prototype was begun in 1946, but this aircraft was intended to use the Yakovlev-designed version of the afterburning RD-10F engine. However, wind tunnel testing of the Su-9 in September revealed that drag could be reduced if the engine nacelles were mounted in the wing rather than underneath it, and the wing tips were redesigned to use a different airfoil that significantly reduced ...
This is a list of aircraft shootdowns, dogfights and other incidents during wars since World War II.An aircraft shootdown occurs when an aircraft is struck by a projectile launched or fired from another aircraft or from the ground (anti-aircraft warfare) which causes the targeted aircraft to lose its ability to continue flying normally, and then subsequently crashing into land or sea, often ...
Name Type Description Seats Number Built Maiden Flight Introduction Years of Production Su-26: aerobatic aircraft: single-seat 1 153 if combined [1]: June 1984
The remains of a World War II airman were identified 80 years after his plane was shot down during a bombing mission in Germany, military officials said this week. In the spring of 1944, U.S. Army ...
The other helped bury him and later exhumed his body for Vietnamese Army propaganda on a claim that his was the 2,000th plane shot down during the war. He is believed to have been reburied in the ...
This incident is believed to be the first commercial passenger plane attacked by hostile forces. [1] On 24 August 1938 – during the Second Sino-Japanese War – the Kweilin, a DC-2 jointly operated by China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC) and Pan American World Airways, carrying 18 passengers and crew, was forced down by Japanese aircraft in Chinese territory just north of Hong Kong. 15 ...
An An-30B surveillance plane, bort number Yellow 80, was shot down with two shoulder-launched missiles. 3 crewmen survived, 5 died. [7] [8] 14 June 2014: An Ilyushin Il-76 transport plane was shot down as it approached an airport in Luhansk, killing nine crew members and 40 troops on board. [9] 14 June 2014