Anatra V.I.

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type=Reconnaissance aircraft
manufacturer=Anatra
designer=Piotr Ivanov
first flight=1916
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The Anatra V.I. (for Ivanov-Voisin, not the Roman numberal VI) was a Russian reconnaissance aircraft of World War I. It was a redesign of the French Voisin Type L undertaken by Podporuchik Piotr Ivanov in Zhmerinka. The Voisin's fuselage pod was replaced by a streamlined, plywood construction that included an all-new mount for the observer's machine gun and an aluminium firewall between the pilot's cockpit and the aircraft's fuel tank. The wings and landing gear were strengthened as well. Despite the machine's greater weight, it was 20 km/h (12 mph) faster in the air than the Voisin that it was based on, and was quickly ordered into production. In practice, however, the aircraft that reached operational units were poorly built and therefore disliked by their crews.

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crew=two, pilot and observer
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length m=9.5
length ft=31
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wing area sqm=39.0
wing area sqft=420
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empty weight kg=852
empty weight lb=1,878
gross weight kg=1,202
gross weight lb=2,650

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ceiling m=3,500
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climb rate ms=2.0
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References

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* [http://www.ctrl-c.liu.se/misc/RAM/vianatra.html Russian Aviation Museum]
* [http://www.airwar.ru/enc/other1/voisinivan.html airwar.ru]

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