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Ilyushin carried out design work on the new aircraft, which was given the internal design bureau designation TsKB-56, in parallel with the DB-3F (later designated the Il-4). While the DB-3F was a relatively simple upgrade of the DB-3, the TsKB-56, which had the service designation DB-3, was larger and heavier, in order to meet the requirements ...
TsKB-6 six-seat passenger/utility aircraft project. TsKB-26 proof of concept prototype for DB-3. M Sh attack aircraft project, 1942. Il-14 four-engine high-speed bomber project, 1944. Il-16 four-engine jet airliner project, 1954. Resembled the Tupolev Tu-110; cancelled due to the Tu-104. Il-24 twin-engine jet bomber project derived from the Il ...
The prototype DB-3F, powered by the same 949 hp (708 kW) Tumansky M-87B engines of the DB-3M, was piloted on its maiden flight by Vladimir Kokkinaki on 21 May 1939. [4] It successfully passed through state acceptance tests and entered production in January 1940, with the 1,100 hp (820 kW) Tumansky M-88 quickly replacing the M-87.
The genesis of the DB-3 lay in the BB-2, Sergey Ilyushin's failed competitor to the Tupolev SB.Ilyushin was able to salvage the work and time invested in the BB-2's design by recasting it as a long-range bomber, again competing against a Tupolev design, the DB-2, to meet the stringent requirements of an aircraft capable of delivering a 1,000 kg (2,200 lb) bombload to a range of 3,000 km (1,900 ...
Ilyushin DB-3: Radial 9-cyl. × 2: Nazarov 273 mph 2400 mi 31,500 ft 2500 kg Ilyushin Il-2 Shturmovik: Inline V-12: Mikulin 250 mph 475 mi 14,846 ft 600 kg Ilyushin Il-4: mph mi ft kg Ilyushin Il-10 Shturmovik: Inline V-12: Mikulin 342 mph 500 mi 18,000 ft 600 kg North American B-25 Mitchell: mph mi ft kg Petlyakov Pe-2: mph mi ft kg Petlyakov ...
DB-4 may refer to: Ilyushin DB-4 , a twin engined long-range bomber of the Great Patriotic War, built in the USSR Aston Martin DB4 , a British touring sports car of the late 1950s
In 2006, the Russian government merged Ilyushin with Mikoyan, Irkut, Sukhoi, Tupolev, and Yakovlev under a new company named United Aircraft Corporation. [4] In July 2014, it was reported that Ilyushin and Myasishchev would merge to form the United Aircraft Corporation business unit Transport Aircraft. [5] [6]
February 4 – The Boeing XB-15 prototype, assigned to the United States Army Air Corps 2nd Bombardment Group at Langley Field, Virginia, takes off [9] under the command of Major Caleb V. Haynes to carry 3,250 pounds (1,470 kg) of American Red Cross emergency supplies to Santiago, Chile, in the wake of the 1939 Chillán earthquake.