NIAI LK-1

NIAI LK-1
LK-1
Role Transport
National origin USSR
Manufacturer NIAI (Naoochno-Issledovatel'skiy Aero-Institoot - scientific test aero-institute)
Designer Alexei Ivanovich Lisichkin & Vladimir Fedorovich Rentel
First flight May 1933
Number built 21

The LK-1 (Leningradskii Kombinat - Leningrad combine), (a.k.a. Fanera-2 – Plywood no.2), (a.k.a. NIAI-1) was a four-seat cabin aircraft designed and built in the USSR from 1933.

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Development

In 1930 the LIIPS ( - Leningrad institute for sail and communications engineers) formed a UK GVF ( - training centre for civil air fleet), in turn the UK GVF formed the NIAI (Naoochno-Issledovatel'skiy Aero-Institoot - scientific test aero-institute) which became the focus of several good design engineers who were given command of individual OKB (Osboye Konstrooktorskoye Byuro – personal design/construction bureau).

Lisichkin and Rentel designed the LK-1 in an attempt to build a very efficient small transport aircraft with the wing blending into the fuselage, forming the cockpit and cabin, with seats for three passengers and one pilot with extensive glazing. Construction was all of wood/plywood, with a conventional single spar wing with plywood covering. The engine, with Townend ring cowling, was fitted on the centre-line between the font cockpits which gave the pilot an asymmetrical view through the leading edge glazing. The fixed tricycle undercarriage was fitted with spats to reduce drag.

Flight trials at Leningrad and state acceptance tests at the NII GVF(Naoochno-Issledovatel'skiy Institoot Grazdahnskovo Vozdooshnovo Flota - scientific test institute for civil air fleet), in Moscow, were very successful and an order for twenty production aircraft with modified tails, spats removed, no Townend ring, and other modifications was placed, for use by Aeroflot inside the USSR and the Arctic.

Variants

  • NIAI-1P – (Poplavkii – floats), at least one aircraft fitted with twin floats.

Operators

 Soviet Union

Specifications (LK-1 - production)

Data from Gunston, Bill. "Encyclopaedia of Russian Aircraft 1875-1995". London:Osprey. 1995. ISBN 1-85532-405-9

General characteristics

  • Crew: 1
  • Capacity: 3
  • Length: 8.87 m (29 ft 1-1/4 in)
  • Wingspan: 12.47 m (40 ft 11 in)
  • Wing area: 27.6 m2 (297 ft2)
  • Empty weight: 746 kg (1,645 lb)
  • Gross weight: 1,160 kg (2,557 lb)
  • Powerplant: 1 × M-11, 74.6 kW (100 hp)

Performance

  • Maximum speed: 154 km/h (96 mph)
  • Range: 850 km (528 miles)
  • Service ceiling: 3,370 m (11,000 ft)
  • Rate of climb: 1.66666 m/s (328 ft/min)

See also

Aircraft of comparable role, configuration and era

Related lists

References

  • Gunston, Bill. “The Osprey Encyclopaedia of Russian Aircraft 1875 – 1995”. London, Osprey. 1995. ISBN 1-85532-405-9



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