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1956
1956 - 1313.PDF
463 11-28 The Withdrawal from East Germany of Russian Light Bombers •"THESE photographs of the departure of seventy Il-28s from Oranienburg, Eastern Germany, are perhaps the best yet seen of a Soviet front-line unit. The aircraft left for Russia after the 221st Air Division had taken leave of the Germans at a farewell parade. Although designed almost ten years ago the Ilyushin light bomber is still an effective machine. Points worth noting are: manual controls, with tabs, inset hinges, mass balances and a fixed tailplane; twin 20mm guns in the rear turret, which is pressurized and has an entry door designed for duty as a tail bumper and as a bale-out blast shield; emergency oxygen in personal parachute-packs; facilities for bombing by radar and visual sight; de-icing air outlets at the wing tips; hinged landing lights in the cowlings; electric starting from a trolley plugged in near the tail; a dielectric panel in the canopy fairing and a long wire aerial leading in under the tail; ejection seats for pilot and navigator in the bomber and for pupil and instructor in the trainer (nearest machine in the top picture), the latter having no apparent fixed gun armament but a reflector sight in each cockpit. The engines are developments of the Rolls-Royce Nene.
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