Lavochkin La-168 - Wikipedia Another 168 derivative was the La-176, the first Soviet plane to achieve supersonic flight (in a shallow dive) on December 26, 1948 [1]
Lavochkin La-176 | This Day in Aviation The La-176 was a single-seat, single-engine fighter, derived from the earlier La-168 The leading edge of its wings and tail surfaces were swept at 45° The fighter was 36 feet (10 973 meters) long with a wingspan of 28 feet, 2 inches (8 585 meters)
Lavochkin La-176 - fighter Combining a fuselage essentially similar to that of the Lavochkin La-168 with wings sweptback 45 at quarter-chord, the La-176 was flown in September 1948 with a 2270kg RD-45F turbojet, and armament comprising one 37mm N-37 and two 23mm NS-23 cannon
The Little-Known Soviet Pilot Who Broke Mach 1 The Lavochkin La-176 was a standalone variant of the La-168, which made her maiden flight on 22 April 1948 and had been designed in response to a 1946 request for an advanced swept-wing jet
LA-176 overtaken sound On December 26, 1948, on the Black Sea coast, an experimental aircraft with a large sweep wing La-176, created by the design bureau of S A Lavochkin, under the control of Captain Oleg Sokolovsky, overcame the "speed of sound "
Lavochkin La-176 – All Aero The La-176 thus became the first Soviet aircraft to achieve supersonic flight Further development was abandoned shortly afterwards when the canopy locks failed at high speed, resulting in test pilot Î V Sokolovsky losing his life
Lavochkin La-176 | This Day in Aviation : r FighterJets - Reddit 26 December 1948: Test pilot Ivan Evgrafovich Federov (Ива́н Евгра́фович Фёдоров ) became the first pilot in the Soviet Union to exceed Mach 1 when he flew the Lavochkin La-176 in a dive from 9,050 meters (29,692 feet) to 6,000 meters (19,685 feet)
Breaking Mach 1. 0 — Soviet Style - HistoricWings. com The Lavochkin La-176 was a competitive Soviet jet fighter prototype that competed against the MiG-15 for selection as the Soviet Union’s premiere jet fighter of the upcoming 1950s Yet while the MiG-15 was easier and cheaper to build, the La-176 was actually a more sophisticated bit of engineering
Internet Modeler Prop Jet 1 72 Lavochkin La-176 The La-176 was a derivative of the La-168 but had wings and horizontal tail pieces swept at 45 degress In addition, it is thought to be the first Soviet design to exceed Mach 1