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The Sikorsky Ilya Muromets ( Russian: Сикорский Илья Муромец) (versions S-22, S-23, S-24, S-25, S-26 and S-27) was a class of Russian pre- World War I large four-engine commercial airliners and military heavy bombers used during World War I by the Russian Empire. [1] The aircraft series was named after Ilya Muromets, a hero ...
Jul 29, 2021 · Because the first Ilya Muromets types had been designed primarily to carry passengers, once the war began Sikorsky started work on a slightly smaller version, the V-type, that could be used as a bomber. Introduced in spring 1915, the V-type Ilya Muromets had a wingspan of 97 ft 9 in. and a length of 57 ft 5 in.
Today ACE has a look at one of the most important, but largely overlooked aircraft in history.Links:https://www.militaryfactory.com/aircraft/detail.asp?aircr...
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S-27 (Ilya Muromets D') Igor I. Sikorsky’s S-22 design proved to be the World’s first four-engine bomber. Sikorsky named the aircraft “Ilya Muromets” after a tenth-century Russian folk hero. Construction started in August, 1913 and first flight was in January, 1914. The aircraft had a wing span of 102 feet, a wing area of 1,700 square ...
- The Russian Behemoth
- Initially A Passenger Airliner
- The Ilya Muromets Compared to Other Bombers in 1914
- Nothing Else Even Came Close in 1914
- Performance
- Legacy
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When World War One started, military aviation was in its infancy. The flimsy airplanes available to the world's military forces in August 1914 were used mainly for reconnaissance. Russia was the only country to have a bomber—a four-engined behemoth that dwarfed every other airplane in the world. Its wingspan of 97 feet was only 23 feet shorter than...
Created by Igor Sikorsky in 1913, the Ilya Muromets was originally to be the world's first multi-engine, multi-passenger airliner. It took its name from a mythological Russian knight, a folk hero with super-human strength who supposedly lived in the seventeenth century. In February 1914, on its maiden flight, it carried 16 passengers—a first for a ...
When Germany declared war on Russia on August 2, 1914, the Russians had two Muromets bombers. By December, the Imperial Russian Air Force had ten. No other country had anything close to it. In 1914, the British had the Sopwith Tabloid, a single seater aircraft that could be fitted to carry five 20-lb bombs. Its loaded weight was 1,700 lbs. The Fren...
The Muromets had an enclosed cabin with heat and electricity and carried a crew of four to eight or as many as twelve and weighed 12,000 lbs. There were openings in the fuselage that allowed mechanics to climb out onto the lower wings and service the engines in flight. Its four engines gave it a maximum speed of 68 mph, which initially compared fav...
During the war, 73 Ilya Muromets were built. They performed daylight bombing, night bombing and photographic reconnaissance. The Germans were reluctant to attack them because they were so well-armed, the rear gunner position being especially problematic. Small fighters even found themselves buffeted from the propellers' wash. And the Ilya Muramets ...
The Ilya Muramets came to influence the design of many heavy bombers created as the war dragged on. The Germans tried to copy it from the wreckage of the single bomber they recovered, incorporating the knowledge into their own heavy bombers, but their four-engine bomber, the Zeppelin-Staaken, wasn’t available until September 1917. The Russians lice...
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Ilya Muromets (1914) by Viktor Vasnetsov. Ilya Muromets or Murometz, [1] [a] also known as Ilya of Murom, [2] is a bogatyr in byliny set during the time of Kievan Rus'. [1] He is often featured alongside fellow bogatyrs Dobrynya Nikitich and Alyosha Popovich, [3] [1] the three collectively known in Russian culture as "the three bogatyrs []".
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The Russian Empire possessed the only long-range heavy bomber to be operational in the first year of the war, the Sikorsky Ilya Muromets (IM). This could carry 1,100 lbs of bombs, and remain in the air for up five hours with a reduced bomb load.
