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Nikolai Nikolaevich Polikarpov (Russian: Никола́й Никола́евич Полика́рпов; 9 June [O.S. 28 May] 1892 – 30 July 1944) was a Soviet aeronautical engineer and aircraft designer, known as the "King of Fighters". He designed the I-15 series of fighters, and the I-16 Ishak (Russian: ишак, lit.
The Polikarpov I-16 (Russian: Поликарпов И-16) is a Soviet single-engine single-seat fighter aircraft of revolutionary design; it was the world's first low-wing cantilever monoplane fighter with retractable landing gear to attain operational status and as such "introduced a new vogue in fighter design". [2]
Polikarpov Design Bureau was a Soviet OKB ... led by Nikolai Nikolaevich Polikarpov. ... I-16 fighter, 1933; I-15-2/I-152 ...
Pages in category "Polikarpov aircraft" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total. ... Polikarpov I-16; Polikarpov I-17; Polikarpov I-153 ...
The 159th IAP resumed combat operations with the 275th IAD on 18 March. On 29 June Sokol was replaced by flying ace and Hero of the Soviet Union Major Pyotr Pokryshev . [ 1 ] Pokryshev received a rare second Hero of the Soviet Union award but on 24 August suffered serious injuries that took him out of flying combat missions in the crash of a ...
His assistant, named in Russian media as Ilya Polikarpov, was also killed in the blast on Ryazansky Street. ... An Arkansas organist is playing 18 hours of Bach this year, 1 lunch break at a time ...
The brazen street bombing of a top Russian general could reflect Ukraine's wish to hit Moscow hard before Donald Trump takes office and any negotiations begin.
Special counsel Jack Smith's report on the Jan. 6 investigation of Donald Trump provides a closing chapter on an unprecedented legal case.