The Yakovlev AIR-7 was a high-performance two-seat light monoplane of the early 1930s, built by a small team Yakovlev assembled inside State Aviation Factory No 39 with funding from Osoaviakhim. It had a streamlined welded steel tube fuselage, an enclosed tandem cockpit and a Shvetsov M-22 radial engine. On its second flight it reached 335 kilometres per hour, a Soviet airspeed record, but in a demonstration an aileron broke off in flutter and the pilot made a forced landing. Yakovlev was disgraced for a time and no production followed.
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The AIR-7 made its maiden flight on 19 November 1932
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Powerplant was a single Shvetsov M-22, a license-built Bristol Jupiter radial engine
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