Boris Lisunov

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Boris Pavlovich Lisunov (Russian: Борис Павлович Лисунов, 1898–1946) was a Soviet aircraft engineer.

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In November 1936, Lisunov travelled to the Douglas Aircraft works in Santa Monica, California, to start the process of licenced production of the DC-3 in Soviet Union. From November 1936 to April 1939, Lisunov documented every part of the DC-3 and its production tooling. He also documented post-delivery in-service support.

After his return to Soviet Russia, Lisunov with Vladimir Myasischev, started the process of re-engineering the DC-3 with the objective of putting the DC-3 into production as a licenced derivative, some time later named Li-2.

[edit] External links

• http://avia.russian.ee/manufacturers/1344.html
• http://www.faqs.org/docs/air/avc47.html