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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 ...
Ilyushin Il-4 in Finnish service; aircraft number DF-25. Photo taken in April 1944. China. Chinese Nationalist Air Force 24 aircraft [citation needed] Finland. Finnish Air Force 11 aircraft of the type DB-3M and four aircraft of the type DB-3F (Il-4) Germany. Luftwaffe (tests only) Soviet Union. Soviet Air Force; Regiments as at 1945-46: [8]
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 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 ...
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
The Beriev A-60 is a Russian airborne laser laboratory aircraft based on the Ilyushin Il-76MD transport— it was originally developed in the former Soviet Union for its airborne forces. In the 1970s a special aviation complex was established by the Soviets at Taganrog machine-building factory to develop airborne laser technology for the Soviet ...
Cockpit of an Aeroflot Il-96-300 Interior of an Ilyushin Il-96 operated by Aeroflot PS-90A engine. The Ilyushin Il-96 is a shortened, long-range, and advanced technology development of the Soviet Union's first widebody airliner, the Ilyushin Il-86. It features supercritical wings fitted with winglets, a glass cockpit, and a fly-by-wire control ...
February 9 – Alex Henshaw sets a new speed record of 4 days 10 minutes for the round trip between England and Cape Town in a Percival Mew Gull. February 11 – The Lockheed XP-38 falls 17 minutes short of the record for a flight across the United States, flying from March Field, California, to Mitchel Field, New York, in 7 hours 43 minutes ...