Kārlis Irbītis Explained

Kārlis Irbītis
Birth Date:14 October 1904
Birth Place:Lāde Parish, Kreis Wolmar, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire (Now Latvia)
Death Place:Saint-Laurent, Quebec, Canada
Nationality:Latvian
Known For:VEF I-16
Occupation:Airplane designer
Awards:Bronze medal from the Latvian Aeroclub (1938)
McCurdy Award for the VSTOL CL-84 project (1970)
Signature:Karlis Irbitis signature.png

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

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 aircraft. 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

VEF Factory

Other

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Herberts Runka . LatvianAviation.com .