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Originally Posted by ollieholmes  I have been doing some reaserch and have come across the following aircraft codes and i dont know what aeroplanes they are:
R-59
R-80
v-17
v-24
v-29
s-54
I have been lead to believe that they are Russian aeroplanes (possibly jets) but i was hoping people may be able to help here.
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It's not the exact answer to your question but some notes.
Experiemental attack aircraft (bombers) in USSR just before WWII and partially during the war has just number codes as a rule. For example Tu-2 is the name for serial production aircraft and experimental aircraft on which Tu-2 based is "103". Number code has a name "factory code" (as an experimental aircrafts produced on a base a aircraft factory which supported and provided with machinery and equipment an "OCB" = a group designers which is headed by a chief designer . Chief designers were Lavochkin, Yakovlev, Tupolev etc.
For fighters - used the prefix which equivalent is "I" (it sounds as "I" sounds in the closed syllable). For example Yak-1 on experimental stage had a name "I-26". But all Policarpov's fighters - serial and experimental - has such a prefix. During the was because of situation and a fact that almost all the experimental aircraft are mainly deriviations of existing aircraft models on project stage many experimental aircraft has names which before the war were given only to serial models.
But there were some exceptions. For example according to spec for first soviet jet fighter aircraft designed by Lavochkin has a codename "168" - and another one designed by Mikoyan - "I-310" (but its "factory code" was "C' which sounds as "S", and serial code MiG-15).
Later experimental fighters "MiG" were given codes "E" (sounds as "E" sounds in closed syllable).
After the WWII end experimental bombers has codes consist of "B" (it is an equivalent for russian litter which sounds the same as english B). So Tu-4 on experimental stage has a name B-4.
But a bit later codes were changed and so for instance Tu-95 has experimental code "aircraft 95".
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