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La-9 represents a further development of the Lavochkin La-126 prototype. The first prototype, designated La-130 was finished in 1946. Similarity to the famous Lavochkin La-7 was only superficial – the new fighter had an all-metal construction and a laminar flow wing.
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 Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar is a VTOL aircraft developed by Avro Canada as part of a secret U.S. military project carried out in the early years of the Cold War. [1] [2] The Avrocar intended to exploit the Coandă effect to provide lift and thrust from a single "turborotor" blowing exhaust out of the rim of the disk-shaped aircraft.
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.
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 La-7 was flown by the top Soviet ace of the war, Ivan Nikitovich Kozhedub and was successfully used by him to down an Me 262 jet fighter, one of the few such shoot downs of the war. Kozhedub, a three-time Hero of Soviet Union , scored his last 17 air victories in 1945 in the La-7 numbered 27, which is now preserved in the Central Air Force ...
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