Bisnovat SK-1

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01/01/2006. Remarks by Bernhard C. F. Klein: "SK stands for Skoristnii Kryilo = High speed wing. This was a Soviet test aircraft. Only one was built to test a flush cockpit design. The cockpit was completely ensconced within fuselage. The front window flipped up and the seat was raised to give the pilot a better forward view during take off and landing. First flight January 1940 piloted by test pilot G. M. Shiyanov. After several flights by other pilots the cockpit was changed to a front screen and open cockpit."


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01/01/2006. Remarks by Bernhard C. F. Klein: "SK stands for Skoristnii Kryilo = High speed wing. This was a Soviet test aircraft. Only one was built to test a flush cockpit design. The cockpit was completely ensconced within fuselage. The front window flipped up and the seat was raised to give the pilot a better forward view during take off and landing. First flight January 1940 piloted by test pilot G. M. Shiyanov. After several flights by other pilots the cockpit was changed to a front screen and open cockpit."