Sukhoi Su-1
Sukhoi Su -1 (Russian Сухой Су -1 ) is the name of a Soviet fighter plane height of the Second World War.
Development
The Su -1 was built from 1939 following a tender process for a fighter to great heights as competition design for the MiG -1. She was the first independent design, founded in the same year construction office of Pavel Sukhoi, which until then had been working for Andrei Tupolev. He designed the project I- 330 (I stands for " Istrebitel " fighter ) as a cantilever low-wing monoplane. Compound construction with relatively large span The fuselage consisted of a wooden structure with Sperrholzbeplankung. The wings were a slight uptick and passed down to the rudder entirely of metal. The wheels of the main landing gear went with a rotation of 90 degrees backward into the wings. As an alternative to at the height of motor AM -35A MiG -1 used Sukhoi chose a designed for medium heights M- 105P, which he fitting out ( for " turbo compressor " ) with two turbochargers TK -2.
The trial began on 15 June 1940. It was an impressive top speed of 641 km / h in altitude of 10,000 meters can be achieved. The experiments, however, had to be interrupted because of due to the German advance evacuation of the Development Office to Novosibirsk. During transport, the Su -1 suffered severe damage. 1942 therefore created a second prototype called I- 360 or Su- third With the Su -1 largely identical in design, but he had a reduced span what the wing area was reduced by two square meters. Although he was not tested until 1943, there had by now shown, however, that the German Air Force did not have altitude bombers, thus no aircraft was needed to intercept high einfliegender German associations. The program was therefore discontinued and the scarce resources otherwise distributed. The aircraft itself was a very positive rating and has been constructive a success, but there were no opponents in the targeted application spectrum and the plane in the lower airspace, in which the air fighting took place, the current patterns was not superior, was dispensed with a series production.