Kārlis Irbītis
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Kārlis Irbītis (October 14, 1904, in Lāde parish, Governorate of Livonia – October 13, 1997, in Saint-Laurent, Quebec, Canada) was a Latvian aeroplane designer.
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Born | (1904-10-14)October 14, 1904 |
Died | October 13, 1997(1997-10-13) (aged 92) Saint-Laurent, Quebec, Canada |
Nationality | Latvian |
Occupation | Airplane designer |
Known for | VEF I-16 |
Awards | Bronze medal from the Latvian Aeroclub (1938) McCurdy Award for the VSTOL CL-84 project (1970) |
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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. 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).