Air Power History, December 22nd, 2000
The Russian airplane designer, Igor Sikorsky, is well known for creating the four-engine Il'ya Muromets bomber-reconnaissance air craft in 1914, an achievement that marked the be ginning of a new era in Russian aviation. He is less well known, however, as the designer of fighters. This article is dedicated to the history, construction, and use of Sikorsky fighters during World War I.
In late 1914, the aeronautical division of the Russian-Baltic Wagon Works (Russko-Baltysky Vagonny Zavod (RBVZ) or Avia-Balt) [1] completed construction of the first seven four-engine Il'ya Muromets B series. A...
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