FlightGlobal.com
Home
Premium
Archive
Video
Images
Forum
Atlas
Blogs
Jobs
Shop
RSS
Email Newsletters
You are in:
Home
Aviation History
1949
1949 - 0299.PDF
February 17th, 1949 La-9 BELIEVED to be the most detailed and accurate representation of the type yet published, thisFlight copyright drawing of the Russian La-9 fighter is based on recent photographs fromRussia. A compact, post-war design, the La-9 equips many fighting and ground attack Squadrons. Though its two-row radial engine may develop over 2,000 h.p.—in which case the top speed should be appreciably in excess of 400 m.p.h.—this latest Russian piston-engined fighter is certainly inferior to the Hawker Fury in fighting effectiveness. Following a vogue set by the German Fw 190 and followed by the Fury, the exhaust stubs are concentrated at the sides of the cowling, in the upper section of which are synchronized guns. The oil cooler is mounted beneath the fuselage. To house the retracted wheels, the centre-section is of deeper chord than the outer mainplanes—one individual characteristic which aids in recognizing the La-9. It will further be gathered that the cockpit enclosure conforms more closely with British and American practice than the canopies of the earlier Yak and La fighters.
Sign up to
Flight Digital Magazine
Flight Print Magazine
Airline Business Magazine
E-newsletters
RSS
Events
