1. SOVIET JET PLANES 2. AIRCRAFT FACTORY NO. 99 AT ULAN UDE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R004600460007-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 10, 2000
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: April 26, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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Approved For Release ft;~/8iriFbdlPM4t4600460?RT NO.
I FOR AT q9Y REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY USSR DATE DISTR. 26 APR 50
SUBJECT 1, Soviet Jet Planes CONFIDENTIAL nvn ^t- nAe%rn
2,, Aircraft Factory to?99 at Ulan tide
PLACE 25X1A
ACQUIRE
25X1X
DATE 4t5XIA
a., pilots jumping from jet planes do not jump when the speed is excessive.
For this reason, when the times comes for jumping, the seat on which the
pilot sits is sprung by a spring when the pilot pushes a button and the
pilot is expelled into the air.. Sith this plane it is possible to rise
with a special oxygen apparatus up to 12,000 meters.
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estimates that their speed was in excess of 15,000 krr/ho
2, On the subject of jet planes, source knows only the following:
25X1X b, the Soviets had modified a part of the YkK-7 to employ
1 as a ie pane.. The engine was put in the rear., After the engine of
the YAK-7 was removed and the jet engine installed, the equilibrium of the
plane was upset: For this reason, added -weight, including armament and
c,ptical instruments, was put forward,.. At the same time, to facilitate
landing and take-off, the rear wheel of the plane was placed in front,
25X1X 3, on the basis on what he heard w SSR
that there are no jet planes in the eastern USSR, in a 25X1X
magazine which is puolished for aviators only that Sovie et planes are
25X1X found only in the west.: there may be jet planes at the
airfields in the Crimea an the aucasus.
4:> tit Factory Iwo?99 at Ulan Ude, which manufactures jet planes, there is an
airfield for proving planes, but the runway is not long enough for jet planes,
Because of this and oecause the surrounding terrain is not favorable for the
enlarging of tnj field, they are making a new landing and droving field,
longer trran old one. Lse is being made of portable runways for the new
field, This ne!a lending' fiela is located northwest of Factory No. 99.,
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