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unusual facts about Semyon Lavochkin


Semyon Lavochkin

While at TsAGI, he his colleagues included the French seaplane designer Paul Richard, as well as Mikhail Gurevich and Nikolai Kamov.


Lavochkin La-5

In early 1942, two of the LaGG-1 and -3's designers, Semyon Lavochkin and Vladimir Gorbunov, attempted to correct this deficiency by experimentally fitting a LaGG-3 with the more powerful Shvetsov ASh-82 radial engine.


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