This article was originally published with the title “ The German Flying Tank, Closing the North Sea, and more ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 118 No. 22 (June 1918), p. 496 doi:10.1038 ...
The Ilyushin Il-2 was a single-engine monoplane that was given the nicknames the "Hunchback" for its bulbous cockpit and "Flying Tank" for its ... dive bomber in the German fleet and participated ...