Word: yakovlev
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Designers Sergei Iliushin and Alexandr Yakovlev, both major generals and Heroes of Socialist Labor; Aleksei I. Shakhurin, the People's Commissar for the Aviation Industry; and Marshal Alexandr Novikov...
...visitor was Planemaker Alexander Yakovlev, designer of the wicked fighting plane YAK, and it was the first of many sessions with No.1. Last week Moscow's Pioneer ran Yakovlev's intimate reminiscences of Stalin as a man of precepts...
When Stalin reads an illiterate document, Yakovlev reported, he growls and says: "Look what this illiterate man says. But if one tries to tell him about it, he will say he is illiterate because his parents were peasants or workers. That is no excuse. Our enemies do not wait to ask about our parents...
...YAK9 fighter is to Russia what the P-51 is to the U.S., the Spitfire IX to Britain. Designed by Alexander Yakovlev, this fast, durable fighter flies at 365 m.p.h., has a range of 425 miles, carries a cannon, two heavy machine guns (light armament by British or U.S. standards, but enough to do yeoman work for the Russians...
...Semyon Lavochkin is Yakovlev's chief rival in the fighter field. A Jewish teacher's son, he is tough, unsmiling. His new plywood fighter, the Reds say, has a faster takeoff, greater punch, a remarkably easy control. The name-handle, LAGG, is compounded of LA for Lavochkin, GG for his aides, Gorbunov & Gudkov...