Oh Polish interwar designs, they have a place in my heart which means I can't help but find them lovable. That does tend to extend beyond the aircraft.
Does anyone have information on this gawdawful flying piece of junk? All I know is that it is supposed to be a Bartini Beriev VVA14.
It's another soviet project for a wing-on-efect craft, and that it is indeed the name.
My Google-foo is weak today. I have looked, but failed to find this one: a Soviet interwar twin-radial engined, twin-boomed fighter design. The cockpit was in the central section of the wing. I don't know the designer either and I'm not sure if it actually got off the drawing board. It's perhaps more odd than ugly.
How is that for vague?
My Google-foo is weak today. I have looked, but failed to find this one: a Soviet interwar twin-radial engined, twin-boomed fighter design. The cockpit was in the central section of the wing. I don't know the designer either and I'm not sure if it actually got off the drawing board. It's perhaps more odd than ugly.
How is that for vague?
Sukhoi started designing their SU-12 artillery spotter airplane in November 1943, but the prototype only made its first flight in 1947. Russians clumsily tried to copy the assymetric Blohm & Voss 141 Focke-Wulf 189 gondolas, but suspended them between a pair of Shevnetsov radial engines producing more like 1300 horsepower. After missing a bunch of performance goals, the program died in 1949.
Try the Grokhovsky G-38 "Light Cruiser" (1938) and see what happens.
My Google-foo is weak today. I have looked, but failed to find this one: a Soviet interwar twin-radial engined, twin-boomed fighter design. The cockpit was in the central section of the wing. I don't know the designer either and I'm not sure if it actually got off the drawing board. It's perhaps more odd than ugly.
How is that for vague?