Unicraft 1/72 Bisnovat Samolyot 5-2 - Soviet Skyrocket Bisnovat 5

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Unicraft 1/72 Bisnovat Samolyot 5-2 - Soviet Skyrocket Bisnovat 5 plastic model kit

1/72 Unicraft Bisnovat Samolyot 5-2 - Soviet Skyrocket Bisnovat 5

Resin Model Kit,   Box Condition: Sealed NM

Still factory tape sealed. Rare. Nicely detailed, limited-run resin kit. The Samolyot 5-2 (or Bisnovat 5) was a Russian manned rocketplane. Bisnovat was assigned the project to develop an all-Soviet equivalent to the 346 supersonic rocketplane being developed by the German Roessing team in OKB-2.Status: canceled 1949. Thrust: 19.60 kN (4,406 lbf). Gross mass: 3,400 kg (7,400 lb). Unfueled weight: 1,900 kg (4,100 lb). Height: 9.92 m (32.54 ft). Span: 6.60 m (21.60 ft).Like the 346, the 5 was a swept-wing aircraft, but about 2/3 the size. First glide flight by A K Pakhomov, dropped from a Pe-8, came on 14 July 1948. The first 5-1 aircraft was destroyed on its third flight 5 September 1948. The 5-2 second aircraft, with RD-2M3BF rocket engine installed, made its first flight on 26 January 1949. After five unpowered flights, the program was cancelled in June 1949. By that time better-funded turbojet-powered fighter prototypes were already achieving the 1200 km/hr top speed of the 5. Biesnovat and Isayev would elaborate the design in unmanned form into the supersonic R-1 air-to-surface missile.

$32.00