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The aircraft did not proceed to production. La-9M (La-134) – long-range fighter prototype, see Lavochkin La-11; La-9RD – one La-9 was fitted with two auxiliary RD-13 pulsejet engines underwing. La-138 – one La-9 was fitted with two underwing PVRD-450 auxiliary ramjet engines.
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.
While "ace" status was most often won by fighter pilots, bomber and reconnaissance crews, and observers in two-seater aircraft such as the Bristol F.2b ("Bristol Fighter"), also destroyed enemy aircraft. If a two-seater aircraft destroyed an aircraft, both crew members were credited with a victory.
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
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 bureau gained distinction for its family of piston-engined fighter aircraft during World War II, and later shifted to missile and jet fighter designs. Following the death of the head designer, the OKB-301 succumbed to the growing power of Vladimir Chelomey and became OKB-52 Branch No. 3 on 18 December 1962.
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.
An F-105D Thunderchief on display at the Udvar-Hazy Center F-105 at the Texas Air Museum in Slaton, Texas. An F-105 on display at the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History in Albuquerque, New Mexico An F-105 Thunderchief on display at Tinker AFB, Oklahoma F-105F at the Cavanaugh Flight Museum F-105G at the National Museum of the United States Air Force