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On Tues. 12 Jan 1943 The BI-2 rocket-powered prototype aircraft took it.....

1943-01-12

The story

The BI-2 rocket-powered prototype aircraft took its second flight at Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg), Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, reaching an altitude of 2,190 meters and reaching the speed of 675 kilometers per hour.

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