The EOI (experimental single-seat fighter) was a fighter aircraft designed and built in the USSR from August 1939.
Development
Viktor Nikolayevich Belyayev had an illustrious early career with
TsAGI
The Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute (also (Zhukovsky) Central Institute of Aerodynamics, , TsAGI) is a Russian national research centre for aviation. It was founded in Moscow by Russian aviation pioneer Nikolai Yegorovich Zhukovsky on Decemb ...
,
AVIAVnito,
Aeroflot
PJSC AeroflotRussian Airlines (, ), commonly known as Aeroflot ( or ; , , ), is the flag carrier and the largest airline of Russia. Aeroflot is headquartered in the Central Administrative Okrug, Moscow, with its hub being Sheremetyevo Interna ...
,
OMOS
Tolulope "Jordan" Omogbehin (born May 16, 1992) is a Nigerian professional wrestler and former college basketball player. He is currently signed to WWE as a free agent, where he performs under the ring name Omos. He is a former one-time Raw T ...
,
AGOS
''Agos'' (in Armenian: Ակօս, " furrow") is a bilingual weekly newspaper published in Istanbul, Turkey, established on 25 February 1996 by Hrant Dink, Luiz Bakar, Harutyun Şeşetyan, and Anna Turay.
''Agos'' has both Armenian and Turki ...
,
KOSOS and the
Tupolev
Tupolev ( rus, Туполев, , ˈtupəlʲɪf), officially United Aircraft Company Tupolev - Public Joint Stock Company, is a Russian aerospace and Arms industry, defence company headquartered in Basmanny District, Moscow.
UAC Tupolev is succes ...
OKB. He also designed and built several gliders from 1920, including flying wing designs.
Belyayev was authorised to design and build this twin-boom experimental pusher-engined fighter in August 1939. The prototype aircraft and the vast majority of drawings, paperwork and photographs were destroyed in October 1941 during the German invasion. A fighter-dive bomber version of the EOI, called ''PBI'' (dive bomber fighter), was in the planning stages.
Specifications (EOI)
See also
References
* Gunston, Bill. “The Osprey Encyclopaedia of Russian Aircraft 1875 – 1995”. London, Osprey. 1995.
{{refend
1930s Soviet fighter aircraft
EOI