[max_thehitman]

BI-1 Rocket Airplane
Maximum Speed - 800 kph. Unofficial world speed record.

The Bereznyak-Isayev BI-1 was the first high speed rocket plane developed by the Soviet Union.
Drawings were completed by spring 1941 but Stalin did not give the go-ahead for production until July 9, 1941.
Round-the-clock shifts produced the first aircraft in 35 days. First flight was on 10 September, but the factory had to be evacuated to Sverdlovsk.
The first powered flight, following accidents in ground runs of the rocket engine, came on May 15, 1942. Problems with corrosion by the acid fuels
slowed testing. On flight 7 the aircraft experienced the previously unencountered tendency of an aircraft to pitch down in high-speed flight, and the
rocket plane crashed into the ground, killing the pilot.
Plans for a 50 aircraft production batch were abandoned (only 9 were built), and rocketplane testing in the USSR only resumed with the testing of
German designs after the war.

I hope you enjoy this one
Cheers
MAX-theHitman

Skins available at Mission4Today ... (BI-1 folder)
http://mission4today.com/index.php?name ... ads2&c=143
NOTE = hock: DO NOT use this skin for the BI-6 rocket-plane. It will NOT look good with that model-type. Only the BI-1.

[KG64_Cnopicilin]

I like your style to skin these forgotten planes. Thank you, they really beat the default!

[Lefty Hartnett]

very cool

[pk75]

Your skin is beautiful, please can you make blank skin the prototype variant for adding to VP media skinmod.

[kg64v_Silent Strika]

Nice. This is the first skin ive seen for this plane

[Alemart_el_Redentor]

VERY nice skins, any chance of having some for the -6 too?.

[Hairog]

They will be put to good use Max in WWIII 1946 Chapter Two "Death from Above".

[max_thehitman]

VERY nice skins, any chance of having some for the -6 too?.

Of course there will be BI-6 versions. I just got to have two super potent WING ROCKETS if I

[Jefferson]

Ideas... Used by the Russians for defense around positions at Stalingrad and other cities. Proved to be somewhat effective so long as speeds were not excessive. Some that had been captured by the Germans were captured by the Americans and tested by the USAAF and the RAF. A few BI-6 planes were captured from various positions in the Pacific and were tested by the USAF. Some of these abondoned positions included Korea where they became popular anti-Superfortress weapons. The excess stocks from the USSR were sold off to countries including Egypt where they were used to fight the Israelis in 1948. They proved to be devastating against most planes in the Independence War, but were eventually beaten by the J7W1 and J7W2 planes that the IDAF got from Italy.

[Hairog]

Good ideas photographer:

The B-1 and B-2 will get a work out as Soviet Point interceptors when the NATO allies start their bombing campaign in 1946 in my new campaign about WWIII.

[Jefferson]

Thanks... I forgot one... It could have been captured by the Japanese in Manchuria and used in small numbers against Superfortresses.

[Hairog]

I did a sample mission with the BI-1 and 6 and can't get the player plane to stay in the air. I put it on AI and it takes off fine and flies till it hits 750 kph and then nose dives into the ground even if I jump in and try and fly it is still nose dives. The other non-player AI planes do just fine. It's only the player plane.

Any ideas on how to make the sucker stay in the air.

[max_thehitman]

I did a sample mission with the BI-1 and 6 and can't get the player plane to stay in the air. I put it on AI and it takes off fine and flies till it hits 750 kph and then nose dives into the ground even if I jump in and try and fly it is still nose dives. The other non-player AI planes do just fine. It's only the player plane.

Any ideas on how to make the sucker stay in the air.

No idea man.
I keep crashing all the time too. Well, I was always a bad test-pilot myself. LOL
There must be a trick somehow.
Cool little aircraft tho.

[Jefferson]

That is a good area of knowledge for me. First, to recover a plane with in a nosedive, you must be at high altitude, slow down, invert, and nose up. If that doesn't work, bail... If you are in the BI-6, you may want to shut down the ramjets first since they tend to be a good source of power, but don't attempt to relight them afterwards unless you are experienced in this area. Ramjets tend to be tricky... That's just basic advice. If you want, I can do some tests on the plane and give you specific info.