Despite the favored acquisitions abroad by the VVKJ conservatives, in the early 1932 an idea to develop a modern combat airplane was initiated by two young Serbian engineers, Ljubomir D.
Ilic and Kosta I.
Sivčev, who were at the time employed at the Air Force Command Technical Department.
They worked in secret after hours at Ilic's apartment and designed the first entirely Yugoslav made fighter airplane, the IK-L1, which first took off on 22 April 1935.
The second prototype, IK-02, const.
Kagero Ikarus ik-2, hardcover/aleksandar m. ognjevic
