Pegasus
Light Attack Bomber
Tomashevich
Pegasus — a light attack bomber, developed by designer Dmitry Ludvigovich Tomashevich, designed to destroy enemy armored vehicles with the simplest and cheapest design and the minimum amount of equipment. The first flight was in 1942. It was supposed to create an anti-tank air army from these simplest cheap aircraft.
The landing gear on the plane was not retracted, there was no hydraulics and air system, the wiring was very simple. The main gas tanks with a capacity of 209 liters were simultaneously the fairings of the engines, and in the event of a lumbago or fire, they could be dumped. Small armored tanks with a capacity of 16 liters were intended to avoid the target.
After being imprisoned, as an associate of Polikarpov in the case the disaster with the I-180 with V.P. Chkalov, Tomashevich worked on the plane in the notorious TsKB-29.
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