Hi,
I quot from the site;
http://www.airwar.ru/enc/fww2/ik5.html
and translation;
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=ar&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http://www.airwar.ru/main.html&sl=ru&tl=en
By: Bager1968 - 4th June 2010 at 21:40
The second link just goes to a master index. As I don’t read Cryllic, and you never mentioned the nation of origin, it took me a while to find the entry.
Yugoslavia, eh?
I question the attributed 1940 quote from Igor Sikorsky, in that it is doubtful that 2x820hp engines (1,640 hp total) could produce a higher speed than the XP-38 (which had reached 413 mph in 1939 with 2×1,090 hp engines {2,180 hp total}).
It might be able, through its better aerodynamics, to match the BF-110C (which reached 348 mph by 1939 with 2×1,085 hp engines {2,170 hp total}).
The IK-5 with the Hispano-Suisa H.38 39 had 32% less installed power than either of those.
If the DB601 Aa (1,085 hp each) had been installed, it might well have given the P-38 a good fight (speed-wise), but we’ll never know, just as its maneuverability & other performance is unknown.
An interesting aircraft, though… nice find.
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June 4, 2010 at 4:40 pm