Bolkhovitinov S

With de Bolchowitinow S, also: BBS -1 (Russian Болховитинов С, ББС ) Viktor Bolchowitinow tried a slight Nahbomber with as little air resistance as possible to create so as to achieve the best possible flight performance.

He decided, therefore, the two motors one after the other in the fuselage to arrange, making the aircraft got a long nose. The two -man crew was housed in a cabin, with its elongated glass roof. In order to ensure an optimal shot in defense field to the rear, designed to the vertical tail of two right and left of the elevator attached end plates. The arranged in low-wing design, wing consisted entirely of metal. The tail dragger landing gear was fully retracted, the main wheels were tilted 90 °. The machine was completed in 1939 and started its testing in the spring of the following year. It turned out that the model indeed yielded good flight performance, but it always had problems with the transmission of the rear engine. Attempts Samoljot S to fly with only one engine, the top speed but could fall so rapidly that a further continuation of the program was not worthwhile. Although the type was still set on skis landing gear and to have been used for the testing of ramjet engines, but the whole project was in late 1940 finally abandoned, especially since the Petlyakov Pe-2, which was in development have significantly better performance could.

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List of aircraft Bolchowitinows

• Military Aircraft