The Standard Class (single seat, span) KAI-14 was an all-metal aircraft designed and built at the
Kazan Aviation Institute by a team led by M.P. Simonov in the USSR in the early 1960s. It was a
shoulder wing,
cantilever monoplane. The
leading edge had a forward sweep of 2° and its
trailing edge was compound tapered. The wing terminated with small streamlined bodies known as salmons and was rigged with 4° of
dihedral. Its inset hinged
ailerons were each divided into two sections and small area
airbrakes were mounted inboard. A braking
parachute was deployed when landing. The metal semi-monocoque
fuselage had a forward section which contained the cockpit ahead of the wing leading edge but became markedly slimmer aft, in pod and boom style. The KAI-14 had a 90°
butterfly tail with straight tapered surfaces, squared tips and externally mass-balanced
elevators. It landed on a fixed
monowheel,
faired into the fuselage underside, which had a brake operated via the airbrake lever. The rear fuselage was protected by a tail bumper. The KAI-14's cockpit could be configured in two ways, either with the pilot reclining under a long, fuselage contour following, one piece
canopy or sitting upright under a shorter, raised canopy. The first arrangement gave lower drag, the second better vision; the latter is sometimes referred to as the "trainer canopy". ==Operational history==