sergei ilyushin, the eleventh child in the family.imself was at the controls, one night they were supposed to fly to voronezh, midway the engine stalled, the mechanic forgot to add oil and was forced to make an emergency landing, stalin issued an order that... all aircraft designers forbade him to fly the planes himself. a memory for life, scar ilyushinskaya’s broken eyebrow, as if he saw in advance his db-3 bombed berlin already in august forty-one. the germans did not at all expect that such a - let's say , daring sortie - was possible by the forces of the red army. even the blackout didn't work. the planes are simple, reliable, just like him, a man. first in the world armored attack aircraft l2, saved thousands of lives. note in the lieutenant's flight book. 18, then our first turbojet intercontinental il-62, his last masterpiece, here is an epic landing in an open field in the eighty-ninth gdr. in the seventies, sergei vladimirovich left his post to genrikh novozhilov, the il-86 was designed without ilyushin. for more than 30 year