Unusual layout with the offset cockpit and engines mounted on top of each other - have any other jet fighter aircraft had these features?
Paul Scott, e-mail, 24.01.2015 16:49
Strange-looking aircraft, but important in the early years development of Soviet aircraft.
3VI, e-mail, 25.01.2012 17:26
Radar was a Toriy, not Izumrud. Rolled out September 1947. First flight attempt on 10/11/1947 and crash after became airborne (can we call it flight?). Then 11/01/1949 first real flight. Many troubles (eg. aeroelastic, flutter, vibrations), disaster on 3/6/1949 with pilot ejection and crash.
Thalb, e-mail, 28.11.2011 22:33
Imagine this aircraft with two axial-flow turbojets mounted side-by-side, it would be a sleek and elegant machine! Maybe it was intended this way, but the radial-flow turbojets originating from the British R.R. Nene could only fit that way.
hans2603, e-mail, 14.06.2011 18:20
für NADIA !!! im jahr 1949 wurde das konstruktionsbüro von suchoj wegen erfolglosigkeit von stalin geschlossen . die erste arbeitsperiode endete mit der SU - 17 (modell R ). nach dem tod von stalin im märz 1953 wurde das konstruktionsbüro neugegründet . als erstes entstanden die beiden prototypen E-2A und E-5 . sie wurden später zur SU - 7B ( modell S22 )diese zweite schaffensperiode dauert bis heute an . (quelle : w.bergholz , russlands große flugzeugbauer )
bombardier, e-mail, 26.05.2011 09:49
This plane was very ugly
DebtMan, e-mail, 16.10.2010 03:25
Is a possible development of Me-163?
Nadia, 11.05.2010 06:23
Rare bird. Most people are confused because the same designation was later used again on SU-15 Flagon 1967
