However, the question really arose how to protect . This means that if you put armor here, just armor, it makes it much heavier and, most importantly , solves the issue of aerodynamics in a bad way. And ilyushin came up with the idea of making an armored plane. It was almost 2 3 armored, the entire top and bottom. Illushen, thats what he wrote, by the way, about this plane. There is a need to create armored attack aircraft or in other words. Flying tank, thats what they called it at the front, which had all its vital parts armored, our Design Bureau decided to make the armor work in the body of the aircraft, that is, to make it the working body of this very machine. Until now, designers have put armor on the frame only for the purpose of protection. The complexity of the task turned out to be in choosing the thickness of this steel sheet, so that, well, so as not to overload this very machine in vain, in march of the fortyfirst year , the first flight of a serial storm aircraft t
That doesnt fit into any fairytale gates, in general one can hardly believe it, and any person who is familiar with the technology of aircraft production, with what an Assembly Line is, can hardly believe that this work was done in 7 days, naturally, no one went anywhere, 7 days of sleepless nights, monstrous tension, and after 7 days the car went into the air already in a twoseater version, a controversial story, but nevertheless , this same il2 airplane is considered to be one of the best aircraft of the great patriotic war. However, after some time, joseph vesarionovich sent a memo signed by himself, and as ilyushin recalled, apparently this note was not prepared for him, judging by the way it was written, that stalin himself wrote it, compiled it himself, sent it himself, yes. Now i wont quote the entire note, but nevertheless, heres what was there in basis, which means he is seriously concerned about the fact that one car is produced from the Assembly Line per day, and categorical