REKORDSMENKA CHARACTER

In the fall of 1978 with a group of rocketmodeler I was going to leave for a training camp in the Crimea. Literally the day before our departure from there to Central aeromodelling club have a telegram. Concise lines brought good news — the world record for flight duration by model raketoplana exceeded Valery Myakinin.

For many modelers it was a surprise: Myakinin, acknowledged enthusiast of small aircraft — and suddenly “the rocketeer”? And what! We all could not wait to arrive soon on the charges.

 

And here the Express train Moscow — Simferopol rushes us to the Crimea. Almost in the end didn’t leave me thinking about the world record. Still, it’s one of the first great achievements of the Soviet rocketmodeler-athletes. But the more I thought about Valerie.

 

Yes, the length of the rocket modeling classes (at the highest level) only once visited the training camp in preparation of the USSR team for the world championship in Bulgaria. Then Valery did not get into the top three athletes, departing for the world championship, but the charges he’s made it as a “rocketeer” a good school. It was then that he decided to undertake; attempts a record flight duration of raketoplana.

 

Skeptics were abound. Frankly, I don’t really believe in future records V. Myakinino. Then, in his success he was firmly convinced a p. Zhidkov is the coach of the Soviet rocketmodeler. Ally Myakinino believed the coach should be a big model aircraft experience. Zhidkov, Valery helped to Refine the receiver is to simplify it, have provided reliable on-Board power radios.

 

…Our acquaintance was held in the summer of 1964, held at Kharkov national championship in the sport aircraft modeling. We then played in the same team — the national team of the RSFSR. V. Myakinin, at that time a student of Kazan aviation Institute, radiomodule, I rezinomotornaya.

 

In the final Protocol of the competition, his name was listed in the second ten. Among the “operators”-the only pilots in those years the unquestioned leader was V. VD Khumri from Voronezh. He took over Valery all the best. Went to train VD Khumri, with him always gone and Myakinin.

 

Only later, once the conversation with Valery, I found out that its first model he built in fifth grade. It was a miniature glider. He flew it doesn’t matter. But for Valeria, the main thing was more-an indescribable feeling of joy — the model flew! It with new forces build new. Even then, the head of the circle E. Kudrin has noticed that this persistent lad, it would seem that the old design has consistently sought to introduce some innovations…

 

Three years later, after graduation, Valery was sent to work in Dubna. Here he became an advocate for the team of the Moscow region. We began to meet more often, become friends. But to see him in “the thing” at the event I had rarely. Our starts took place in different places, as for some time the competitions of aeromodellers were divided into several classes: conovici (and I spoke with the cord model-copy) competed in Noginsk, Elektrostal, and “radio operators” “flew” in Dubna and Serpukhov.

 

The years went by. Valery firmly established among the leading Soviet athletes: three-time champion of the USSR, in collaboration with B. Skurski became the holder of the world record for flight duration models, radio controlled.

 

In 1976 in the USSR championship Myakinin has won all classes of radiomodule (glider, copy and aerobatic). He particularly distinguished in the model aerial “acrobatics”.

 

Talisman V. Myakinino (record rocket S-4-D):

1 — fuselage, 2 — pole for mounting the power compartment. — pull rudder, 4 — Kiel, a 5 — wheel rotation, b — guide rings, 7 — Elevator, 8 — regulator, 9 — container of the power compartment, 10 — streamer power compartment, 11 — engine, 12 — wing.

A — wing profile; — the profile of the stabilizer.

 

The model was built specially to record starts. It is a cantilever monoplane with a powerplant that includes two engines impulse of 10 n*2.5 n*s, is located on the rear of the wing.

 

The basic material of rocket plane — balsa. The stacked wing: ribs, the edges of the balsa spars from pine. Covered with long-fibre paper, is attached to the fuselage with rubber thread.

 

 

…Wasn’t a summer cold, the wind was blowing, sometimes it was drizzling. Some participants refused to start: with the weather models are easily losing height, they were blown away by the wind.

 

It took only a few seconds after the call Myakinino at the start. Earned the engine, and a model, obedient to his radio commands, confidently took off and left the area. The whole set of figures was performed at the required height and with great accuracy: the loop — without displacement, the eight — strictly in a given direction, symmetrical and of good purity. Watching the corkscrew, it was hard to imagine that this makes the model, not real plane, which is controlled by an experienced pilot. Yeah, not been in vain multi-day training on the airfield at Kimry. Three gold medals and became a well-deserved award to Valery for the work, persistence and perseverance.

 

Incidentally, the latter is a distinctive trait of his character. In preparation for the championship, one summer day he was doing about 50 takeoffs and landings! To ripples in the front made all kinds of shapes: figure eights, rolls, loops, bringing them to perfection. For the workout he burned an entire canister of fuel (15-20 l), while the fuel tank of the model are only 250-300 g.

 

…The train slowed down, and from the speaker came a voice: “Simferopol!” Even saw you on the platform of Valeria. We rejoiced for him and he as if nothing had happened, as if it was not of record. However, Myakinin at all stingy on the emotions. He may lose in the competition, break the model, but it is unlikely to knock him out. Remember in training camp he flew the rocket plane to the original design (off the wick), the other would have panicked, and he, as if nothing had happened began to make a new one.