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Nationality
  
Latvian

Known for
  
VEF I-16

Occupation
  
Airplane designer

Name
  
Karlis Irbitis

Karlis Irbitis
Born
  
October 14, 1904 (
1904-10-14
)
Lade Parish, Russian Empire (Now  Latvia)

Died
  
October 13, 1997(1997-10-13) (aged 92) Saint-Laurent, Quebec, Canada

Awards
  
Bronze medal from the Latvian Aeroclub (1938) McCurdy Award for the VSTOL CL-84 project (1970)

Kārlis Irbītis (October 14, 1904, Lāde parish, Governorate of Livonia – October 13, 1997, Saint-Laurent, Quebec, Canada) was a Latvian aeroplane designer.

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His greatest successes, for the VEF Factory, were the sports plane VEF I-12 (1935) and the monoplane VEF I-16 (1939), used as a fighter. After World War II, when he had emigrated to Canada, he was the designer of the experimental Canadian vertical landing and take-off aeroplane, the CL-84 (1950).

Aircraft Designed by Kārlis Irbītis

  • Irbitis I-1 Spriditis – sport, single-seat / N. Pulins & K. Irbitis (P.2, I.1) 1925
  • Irbitis I-2 Ikars / N. Pulins & K. Irbitis (P.3, I.2)
  • Irbitis I-3 – by Huberts Runka
  • Irbitis I-4 Vanadzins / A.S. ″Christine Backman″
  • Irbitis I-5 Ikars II – trainer 2-seat by Nikolajs Pulins
  • Irbitis I-6 Gambija – trainer single-seat by Nikolajs Pulins
  • Irbitis I-7 Zilais Putns – trainer single-seat by Nikolajs Pulins
  • Irbitis I-8 Zilais Putns II – trainer 2-seat / Nikolajs Pulins & Karlis Irbitis
  • Irbitis I-9 Kaija – monoplane / Valsts Daugavpils Arodskola
  • Irbitis I-10 Vanags – by Riga Aviation club / Valsts Daugavpils Arodskola 1935

    • Factory VEF

  • Irbitis VEF I-11 – sport (low-wing distance racer)
  • Irbitis VEF I-12 – trainer 2-seat, converted to single-seater
  • Irbitis VEF I-14 – sport (low-wing racer)
  • Irbitis VEF I-15a – trainer military single-seat
  • Irbitis VEF I-15b – bomber
  • Irbitis VEF I-16 – fighter
  • Irbitis VEF I-17-1 – trainer military 2-seat
  • Irbitis VEF I-17-2 – trainer military 2-seat (engine Shvetsov M-11)
  • Irbitis VEF I-18 – sport trainer by Latvia Aeroclub
  • Irbitis VEF I-19 – fighter (prototype for Lavochkin La-5)

    • Other

  • CL-84 – world’s first successful tilt-wing aircraft / Canadair 1965

    • References

    Kārlis Irbītis Wikipedia
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