Talk:Lavochkin

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I changed "aircraft manufacturer" to "design bureau". I am not sure that there was no manufacturer (production plant) named after Lavochkin. But note that Soviet economic infrustructure was pretty different from the Western (namely market-type). A design bureau and a manufacturer usually were not a single unit or affiliated companies. Despite the hot competition between design teams (like those of Lavochkin, Mikoyan and so forth), the producers were not controlled by those teams, but by party bureaucracy. So I doubt that Lavochkin's bureau was also producing the planes.

I'm not entirely sure about the 100-series Lavochkin designations. Some sources indicate that these aircraft were not officially assigned La- monikers and were simply referred to as "fighter number ###" or "###". I've done my best to redirect prototypes to production version pages (e.g. La-130, La-132 to La-9). Emt147 08:27, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

You are right. Most of "La-" (as well as all those "MiG-", "Su-", etc) prefixes were assigned at the moment of "entering service". Well, sometimes development numbers were retained (as Tu-95 for [ANT-]95). --jno 10:15, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge effort

• Oppose. We keep bureaus and the founders of those bureaus separate in other cases. —Joseph/N328KF (Talk) 03:36, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

• Because it's been a while and no consensus was reached, I'm removing the tag. Akradecki 02:25, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

• Oppose. Organizations differ from personalities. --jno 10:12, 7 August 2006 (UTC)