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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]
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.
Polikarpov Design Bureau was a Soviet OKB ... led by Nikolai Nikolaevich Polikarpov. ... I-180 prototype fighter developed from the I-16, ...
Safonov's Polikarpov I-16 fighter, displayed at the Central Naval Museum in Saint Petersburg.. At the beginning of the German-Soviet War, Safonov was based at Vaenga (now called Severomorsk) on the Murmansk Front, commanding the 4th Squadron of the 72nd Mixed Aviation Regiment, flying the Polikarpov I-16 fighter. [3]
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 ...
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