KOLPAKOV

Leonid Dyementyevich Kolpakov-Miroshnichyenko led design of several aircraft at Lebed company 1914-17. His own designs were: Kolpakov K-1 recon biplane (1916) with entire wing cellule variable incidence through 7°, Lebed XIV (or Lebed-Grand) twin-engined fighter (1917), and LB-2LD light bomber of 1926 developed from Lebed-Grand with crew of 4, delayed until after civil war.

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