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The Ilyushin "Il-14" (NATO reporting name: Crate) was a Soviet twin-engine commercial and military personnel and cargo transport aircraft that first flew in 1950, and entered service in 1954.
The Il-14 was developed as a replacement for the widespread Douglas DC-3 and its Soviet built version, the Lisunov Li-2. A development of the earlier Ilyushin Il-12, (that first flew in 1945), the Il-14 was intended for use in both military and civil applications. The Il-12 had major problems with poor engine-out behaviour. Also, it had less payload capability than was originally planned (although the Il-12 was intended to carry 32 passengers, in service it only carried 18, which was uneconomical). An Avia 14T of CSA displayed at the 1957 Paris Air Show.
The development into the Il-14 was a vast improvement over the Il-12, with a new wing and a broader tailfin. It was powered by two 1,400 kW (1,900 hp) Shvetsov ASh-82T-7 radial piston engines. These changes greatly improved aerodynamic performance in engine-out conditions.Total production of the Il-14 was 1,345 aircraft: 1,065 in Moscow (Moscow Machinery Plant Nr.30) from 1956 to 1958 and Tashkent (Factory Nr.84) from 1954 to 1958. Licensed production of 80 in East Germany by VEB Flugzeugwerke Dresden (FWD) from 1956 to 1959 and 203 in Czechoslovakia ( CSA) by Avia, Prague, from 1956 to 1960 as the Avia 14. It was rugged and reliable, and thus was widely used in rural areas with poor quality airfields.

GAZ M-1, "Emka" - Soviet passenger car, mass-produced at the Gorky Automobile Plant from 1936 to 1942. A total of 62,888 copies were made.
The documentation for the car was transferred to GAZ by the American side under the terms of the contract; the Soviet side had to prepare a new model for production and create part of the production equipment on its own.
As part of the 1929 contract, the Soviet Union received documentation for the Ford Model B, which was put into production in the United States in 1934. Therefore, Gorky residents also designed their next model M1 in the image of Ford. However, Soviet designers largely reworked the decisions of the Americans. So technically he was very different from the American, although outwardly he was very similar to him.
The Ford Model B 40A Fordor Sedan, model 1934, with a four-cylinder engine and standard design, was chosen as a prototype for production in the USSR. But the main innovation of the GAZ M-1, "Emka" car was the all-metal body (but initially with a wooden side beam of the roof and its covering made of leatherette), the advanced manufacturing technology of which was mastered by the plant in cooperation with the bodybuilding division of Ford.
In 1937, GAZ M-1 was exhibited at the World Industrial Exhibition in Paris.