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CAF <strong>Swiss</strong> <strong>Wing</strong> December 2011 Page 9GastseitePermit me to presentmyself,Rusalka is my nameI am a Russian bi-plane, more accuratelya «One and a Half» plane, the biggestsingle engine airplane. My ancestorwith its four-bladed nose took tothe air for the first time in 1947. It wassuch a successful design that a total of20’000 planes were built until 2004.I was born in 1978 at that time behindthe Iron Curtain and could notimagine that one day I would find myway to Switzerland. My brothers andsisters served on many missions be itFrom the cold Riga to Lithuania and Switzerland
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