NIAI OSh
The Osh (Odnomotornyi Shturmovik – single-engined attack) was an attack aircraft designed in the USSR from 1939. DevelopmentIn 1930, the LIIPS (- Leningrad Institute for Sail and Communications Engineers) formed a UK GVF, a 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). In 1939, Anatolii Georgievich Bedunkovich designed a large single-engined twin-boomed attack aircraft, it was to be constructed from stressed skin light-alloy. This large aircraft was to carry a heavy cannon armament including a turret in the rear of the fuselage nacelle, which also housed the single engine, driving propellers in the nose of each tail-boom, through shafts and gearboxes. There is no record of this interesting project having been built or flown.
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