Flying boat Fairchild F-91. This small flying boat designed in 1934 by the American firm Fairchild, was calculated for mass production, but, despite its excellent flight characteristics, she never went into big series. The firm has managed to produce only seven units of the machine. However, the fate of these seaplanes were interesting enough. They had a chance not only to visit most of the continents of the globe, but also to participate in hostilities and, in particular, in the civil war in Spain.
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In the summer of 1929 went up in the air the first Soviet amphibian. It was a W-1 with a 65 HP motor, built by aviation enthusiasts — thirty-year-old engineer Vadim Borisovich Shavrov and his friends in one of city apartments. Flight tests were successful. After a year on the instructions of the chief of the Air Force created a second, somewhat increased in size, the copy machine under the series motor M-11 rated at 100 HP and this Is the origin known in aviation circles around the world plane W-2.
At the end of the Second world war the allies: USA, Britain, France and the Soviet Union tried to demonstrate their peaceful intentions. The United States, to acquire nuclear weapons, was calm for his country and selflessly indulged postwar liberated Europe. But it was only some two years and a friendly handshake between the leaders of the three superpowers – Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin ended. At the same time stopped, and the US monopoly on nuclear weapons.
Guided missile anti-aircraft missiles V-300. It was designed to defeat aircraft with a flight speed of 1500 km/h at altitudes from 5 to 25 km and at a distance of 35 km the First anti-aircraft guided missile (AAGM) with radio command guidance was single stage, liquid fuel, pressurization feed system components.
We can safely say that the class of the ship ejection of seaplanes was the most short-lived in the history of Soviet aviation. There are many reasons, but chief among them is that in the heyday of ejection aviation fleet of the Soviet Union played a secondary role. In its structure there were only a few ships equipped with ejection systems.
Carrier-based fighter Grumman FF-1. Aircraft manufacturing firm Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation began work with the U.S. Navy in the late 1920-ies First, she collected the floats for seaplanes, and then began to build airplanes in their own projects, trying to use in their designs the most modern technology the First two seaplane G-1 and G-2, the proposed military was intended to perform reconnaissance tasks of the Machine all-metal construction was fitted with a retractable landing gear with a very original mechanism of their release, interested experts from the Bureau of Aeronautics of the Navy (BuAer): they rightly felt it necessary to use it on combat aircraft to reduce drag and increase speed flight, Especially needed in this chassis carrier-based fighter.
During the Second world war in the West, fighters, modified to destroy ground targets, became known as fighter-bombers. After the war they were further developed. This contributed to a widespread adoption of leading aviation powers on a much more expensive jet technology, the emergence of tactical nuclear weapons and the reduction of the fleet of combat aircraft. For nuclear strikes from low altitudes in fighter-bombers practiced bombing kupirovaniya, and cars equipped with special sights In this period, the fighter-bombers became the basis of tactical aircraft of NATO countries.
Hardly anyone would dispute that the twentieth century was for the engineers of gold in the literal and figurative sense. Discoveries and inventions made in those years will be used more by many generations of earthlings, and some of them will be further developed.
Vertical takeoff aircraft Yak-36. In 1960, Yakovlev made a proposal to the government to develop the aircraft vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) Yak-104. The project involved the use of two lifting and propulsion uprated Р19-300 with a thrust of 1600 kgf with a rotary nozzle and one lifting Р19-300 traction 900 kg. It was expected that at flight weight of 2800 kg and the fuel capacity 600 kg VTOL aircraft can reach the speed of 550 km/h, climb to an altitude of 10 000 m and fly to a distance of 500 km.
In the first years after the Civil war, the Soviet civil aviation monopoly reigned all-metal aircraft of the German production. “Ukrvozduhput” preferred products of the company “Dornier” and “Dobrolet” and “Zakavia” purchased the aircraft from company “Junkers”. Single-F13 for a long time was the main “workhorse” on the Soviet civil lines, and military transport. Following this, albeit in significantly smaller quantities, began to acquire W33.