LaGG-1

Lavochkin-Gorbunov-Goudkov LaGG-1 (Лавочкин-Горбунов-ГудковЛаГГ-1) was the first of the line of the hunters to piston engine, produced by research department OKB-301. These hunters characterized by method of construction known as Delta Drevesiny which consisted in formatting small pieces of wood of Bouleau, by pressure, then to stick them thanks to resin S. Although LaGG-1 was not a plane extremely well successful, it posed bases which gave rise to the futures La-5 and La-7, which were the two of most powerful Soviet hunters , even world.

LaGG-1, was conceived during the year 1938 and it flew for the first time on March 30th 1938. The plane did not miss defects, but it seemed promising and the need for modernizing VVS made law. One thus ordered his setting in production and it was brought into service under the designation of I-22 . A hundred apparatuses were assigned to regiments of evaluation. The pilots brought back whereas the plane missed power, of agility and operating range. The problems were worsened by the fact that if the seven prototypes had been realized carefully, the planes of production, them, had been built rather coarsely. As the critical reports arrived, the team of the OKB-301 went back to work to correct the model. This work gave rise to the LaGG-3.

Random links: