Fedor Ivanovich Bylinkin was an aircraft designer and builder in
Russia before
World War I. He designed and built a monoplane in 1910 similar to the
Antoinette VI which succeeded in reaching 200 m of flight. A later
biplane
A biplane is a fixed-wing aircraft with two main wings stacked one above the other. The first powered, controlled aeroplane to fly, the Wright Flyer, used a biplane wing arrangement, as did many aircraft in the early years of aviation. While ...
design proved a failure.
Bylinkin had earlier joined with
Igor Sikorsky to design a
biplane
A biplane is a fixed-wing aircraft with two main wings stacked one above the other. The first powered, controlled aeroplane to fly, the Wright Flyer, used a biplane wing arrangement, as did many aircraft in the early years of aviation. While ...
featuring a 15 hp
Anzani engine in
pusher configuration
In an aircraft with a pusher configuration (as opposed to a tractor configuration), the propeller(s) are mounted behind their respective engine(s). Since a pusher propeller is mounted behind the engine, the drive shaft is in compression in nor ...
. This design was later rebuilt to address a lack of power, installing a 25 hp
Anzani in a
tractor configuration. This design, dubbed the
BIS-2, was flown for the first time by Sikorsky on 3 June 1910. Maximum distance achieved by this design was 600 m and maximum flight time was 42 seconds.
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Aircraft manufacturers of Russia