Spanish Air Force of WW2. The Polikarpov I-16 Rata. A Soviet single-engine single-seat fighter aircraft of revolutionary design; it was the world’s first low-wing cantilever monoplane fighter with retractable landing gear to attain operational status and as such “introduced a new vogue in fighter design of the 30s.”
Usage: Second Sino-Japanese War, the Battle of Khalkhin Gol and the Spanish Civil War of the 30s.
Ink and pencil drawings by Joan Mañé
