info on russian plane

[me262]

i heard about a Russian biplane fighter , but the odd thing is that the lower wing was retractable in to the top one, does anybody knows more details, pics or at least the name?

 

[evangilder]

Sounds familiar. I think it may have been talked about in a thread here before.

 

[cheddar cheese]

I think ive heard of this too, im unsure about what it is though. It might be the Tomashevich Pegas but im not sure.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

it does sound interesting.........

 

[toffigd]

I've read somewhere about it, I'll try to find where it was.

 

[Rafe35]

I was thinking about Polikarpov I-153 Chaika, but probably not.

 

[JCS]

I believe you're talking about the Nikitin Schevchenko IS-4. Look in the Aircraft Requests forum, I started a thread about it a while ago.

 

[JCS]

Heres a link to the thread:

http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=524&highlight=is4

 

[pbfoot]

the a/c is a nikitin-sevchenko IS-1 or IS-2 both which flew in 1939-40 but was quashed because the electro hydraulic system for wings was too maintainence intensive for operational use