Lavotchkine La-5

The Lavotchkine La-5 was a single-seat fighter plan Soviet of the Second world war designed by Semion Alexeïevitch Lavotchkine. This apparatus was entirely built of wood and the engine was placed in a weld steel structure.

Design

In 1941, Lavotchkine started to develop a model of replacement for the LaGG-3 which, from its inferiority vis-a-vis the German hunters , could be regarded only as one version of transition.

The new model was equipped with a radial engine Chvetsov ACh-82 in the place with the engine on line with its predecessor, which resulted in completely redrawing the housing of the engine as well as the fuselage. The LaG-5 , which carried out its first in-flight tests in April 1942, was thus of this fact a new construction.

When the engineer Gorbounov left the development team of Lavotchkine little time after, the apparatus received the designation of La-5 .

In June 1942 in-flight tests were finished and construction in series of the plane could start with the engine improved ACh-82F .

Engagements

The La-5 was distinguished in particular at the time of the hard combat in the south of the the USSR and it accepted the nickname of saver out of wooden of Stalingrad .

From September 1943 a version of drive, the La-5UTI / La-5U , was brought into service.

And when in March 1943 the new direct fuel injection engine ASh-82FN (which was an excellent copy of BMW 801D, engines recovered on the wrecks of shot down FW 190) was available, a more powerful version, the La-5FN , was born. This model had a characteristic air intake drawn entirely forwards and the back from the fuselage located behind the cockpit lowered to allow a sight 360°. This version of the La-5 strongly contributed to the resumption of the initiative in the airs by the Soviets as from the summer 1943. It should be noted that La-5FN had many common points with Focke-Wulf 190, which one had copied many characteristics, inter alia: direct injection, hearing of driving cooling, synchronization of the weapons, etc…

The La-5FN was also used by the the 1st Czechoslovakian mixed division made up starting from 1943/44 and it continued to fly in Czechoslovakia after the war under designation S-95 . On the whole approximately 10.000 planes all of the type, confused versions, were manufactured.

See too

List of the military aircrafts

External bonds

the planes Lavotchkine

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