The Mosca Bystritskii was a Russian fighter/recon airplane designed and developed during 1916 by the Muscovite company Mosca-Bystristkii.
Inspired by some contemporary airplanes like the Nieuport IV or the Morane-Saulnier G, the prototype and earliest versions, were unarmed and were two-seaters intended to perform recon duties and the fighter versions (the bis ones) were faster due to the fact that they weren't two-seaters. It was powered by an 80hp LeRhone engine or Clerget Rotary engine. The bis version was armed with either a 7,7mm unsynchronised forward-firing machine-gun with a bullet defector mounted in the propeller or, alternatively, with the machine-gun mounted above the cockpit and firing clear from the propeller. In total, 50 exemplars of it were manufactured and it's known that some of them were built after the Russian revolution.
A very interesting feature of this airplane were the backwards folding wings to make the airplane easier to transport by road or by train.
As we said previously, only two versions were made:
- Bystritskii: Two-seater unarmed recon version.
- Bystritskii bis: Single-seater fighter version.
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