POLIKARPOV'S BIPLANE FIGHTERS . RED STAR VOLUME 6.

GORDON YEFIM AND DEXTER KEITH .

ISBN 10: 1857801415 / ISBN 13: 9781857801415

Verlag: MIDLAND PUBLISHING, ENGLAND, 2002

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Format:21,5/28.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 005229

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: POLIKARPOV'S BIPLANE FIGHTERS . RED STAR VOLUME 6.
• Verlag: MIDLAND PUBLISHING, ENGLAND
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1857801415
• ISBN-13: 9781857801415
• Einband: Couverture souple
• Zustand: Bon
• Gewicht: 650 Gramm

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Inhaltsangabe

This book explores the development of Polikarpov's fighting biplanes from the 2I-N1 to his first aircraft to see production; to the I-3 and the I-5 created while the designer was in prison. This design paved the way for the I-15 which earned fame as the Chato during the Spanish Civil War and also saw action against the Japanese, and the I-15bis, which owed its existence mainly to Soviet Air Force's prejudice against gull wings; and the famous I-153 Chaika, a gull-wing biplane with retractable-landing gear. Experimental versions of this aircraft are also included. This title includes a detailed account of these aircraft's' combat roles and structural descriptions. The book also features details of the ill-starred I-190, which was to have superceded the Chaika, and of privately owned I-15bis and I-153s that have been restored to airworthy condition.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Yefim Gordon was born in 1950 in Vilnius, Lithuania, and graduated from the Kaunas Polytechnical Institute in 1972 as an engineer/electronics designer. He has been a resident of Moscow since 1973, when, as a hobby, he started collecting photographs and books on the history of Soviet aviation. This has now developed into a major archive. Since the 1980s he has been a professional aviation journalist and writer, with over 80 books published on Soviet/Russian aviation in Russian, English, Polish and Czech, as well as close to 120 magazine features and photo reports. He is also an accomplished photographer, with countless photos published in the western press; the current edition of Jane's All the World's Aircraft features more than 50 of his photographs.