Artiste : Darryl Legg
A Soviet Polikarpov I-16 intercepts a German Ju-88, somewhere on the Eastern front. The Polikarpov I-16 is 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." The I-16 was introduced in the mid-1930s and formed the backbone of the Soviet Air Force at the beginning of World War II