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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 = Confusedhock: DO NOT use this skin for the BI-6 rocket-plane. It will NOT look good with that model-type. Only the BI-1.

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