High-speed I-16 fighter. Stalin's favorite plane. Maslov M.A.

The famous I-16 has become one of the most famous and massive Soviet fighters. He participated in all wars of the USSR of the 1930-1940s: Spain, Finland, China, Mongolia, the initial period of the Great Patriotic War. The book of the famous historian of domestic aviation is the best study today about the complex and contradictory fate of the main fighter of the Soviet Air Force, its development, design, production and combat use.

The publication is richly illustrated by many rare photographs.